Leroy Douresseaux on STAR WARS: INVASION - Revelations #1

STAR WARS: INVASION – REVELATIONS #1 (Series #12)
DARK HORSE BOOKS

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SCRIPT: Tom Taylor
ART: Colin Wilson
COLORS: Wes Dzioba
LETTERS: Michael Heisler
COVER: Chris Scalf (alternate cover by Dave Dorman)
32pp, Color, $3.50

I remember Vector Prime, the 1999 Star Wars novel written by R.A. Salvatore that was the first installment of the New Jedi Order. In the Star Wars Expanded Universe, the New Jedi Order is an era that begins 25 years after the Battle of Yavin (or 25 BBY). This was the climatic battle in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope in which Luke Skywalker destroyed the Death Star. The novel also introduced an alien race, the Yuuzhan Vong, which I didn’t care for then, nor do I now. Anyway…

Star Wars: Invasion is a Star Wars comic book set in the New Jedi Order era. Star Wars: Invasion depicts the events of the Yuuzhan Vong War, in which an alien race from another galaxy, the Yuuzhan Vong, invades the Star Wars galaxy and wages war against the New Republic.

As Star Wars: Invasion – Revelations #1 begins, Luke Skywalker and a handful of Jedi battle the Yuuzhan Vong on Dantooine. Princess Kaye Galfridian and her mother, Nina, find themselves racing to the Empire’s territory, with refugees in tow. Meanwhile, Finn Galfridian, under the guidance of the mysterious Jedi Master Dray, infiltrates Coruscant to stop a plot against New Republic Chief of State Borsk Fey’Lya, but he discovers startling revelations about the leaders of the New Republic.

This first issue of Star Wars: Invasion – Revelations (which is the 12th in the Star Wars: Invasion series) directly depicts three storylines and indirectly a fourth. That’s quite a bit of material to follow, and I wasn’t really enjoying the issue… that is until I focused on one storyline.

Finn Galfridian’s story is interesting and gripping because it deals with so many engaging elements: his internal conflicts, his somewhat contentious relationship with Master Dray, and the Yuuzhan Vong plot against Borsk Fey’Lya, who isn’t that great a guy. Finn’s story has melodrama, soul-searching, intrigue, tension, and conflict – much of it played on the razor’s edge. This is the reason to buy into this storyline.

B+

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