MARVEL COMICS – @Marvel
[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
STORY: Ben Acker and Ben Blacker
PENCILS: Kevin Walker
INKS: Marc Deering
COLORS: Java Tartaglia
LETTERS: VC's Clayton Cowles
COVER: Jeff Dekal
VARIANT COVERS: Movie Cover
36pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (March 2018)
Rated “T”
“DJ: Most Wanted”
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – DJ: Most Wanted #1 is a one-shot comic book. It is a comic book tie-in to the film, Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), the second movie in the Star Wars “sequel trilogy” (which began with 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens). DJ: Most Wanted is written by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker; drawn by Kevin Walker (pencils) and Marc Deering (inks); colored by Java Tartaglia; and lettered by Clayton Cowles.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – DJ: Most Wanted #1 opens in Canto Bight, the infamous casino city. The wily gambler DJ is using his immense skills as a code breaker, hacker, and slicer to win even when he is losing. This evening, he has managed to capture the interest of two honest cops, Pol Ipol and Oosha Choi, but it is the attention of the dishonest to which DJ must pay attention. The worst of them all is someone known as “Denel Strench,” but who or what is he and why is everyone wary of him?
This is the second worst Star Wars comic book that Marvel Comics has published since it reacquired the license to publish Star Wars comic books several years ago. What is the worst, you ask? That would be (Star Wars Special) C-3PO #1, which was published back in the spring of 2016.
Why do I dislike DJ: Most Wanted so? For starters, its title character is “DJ,” a character that I found unlikable and extraneous in the recent film, Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In fact, this entire subplot involving DJ in the film was dumb and unnecessary, and basically, Star Wars: The Last Jedi – DJ: Most Wanted #1 is a dumb and unnecessary comic book.
Even the art by Kevin Walker, who is doing an excellent job on the Star Wars ongoing series, Doctor Aphra, under performs here. I think writers Ben Acker and Ben Blacker did a good job on the previous spin off comic book from The Last Jedi (Star Wars: The Last Jedi – The Storms of Crait #1). They stumble here because they really do not have much with which to work. This is basically a story that explains why DJ is in jail when we first meet the character in The Last Jedi, but nothing is known about his character other than that he is a two-faced opportunist.
Unless you are someone that has to collect every Star Wars comic book, I recommend that you keep the 4.99 (plus tax) or so that it would cost you to buy this pitiful comic book in your pocket.
3 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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