Darth Vader is one of the most fearsome and stoic figures in the Star Wars galaxy . But deep down , under those layers of leather , alloy , and charred figure , he is still Anakin Skywalker . And Anakin Skywalker is nothing if not a petty , piddling serviceman .
This workweek ’s Darth Vader # 13 — by Charles Soule , Giuseppe Camuncoli , Daniele Orlandini , and David Curiel — is set three years into Palpatine ’s reign , jumping ahead fromthe premature storyto principally focus on a tarradiddle of how the Empire came to subject the Mon Calamari homeworld . But it opens with Vader , ensconced in his speculation chamber , give a dream of a scene that ’s very conversant to Star Wars sports fan . He ’s expect back to the final minute of his encounter with Obi - Wan on Mustafar during Revenge of the Sith . But there ’s one key remainder .
Anakin does n’t conceive of himself as he once was . He imagines himself as the Dark Lord of the Sith that he ’s become . And he imagines himself advance .
The duologue is still the same , ripped from the moving-picture show . Obi - Wan still infamously has the high ground . The minute is still a foreboding one , but instead of it finish as we cognise it ends , with Obi - Wan empty the burning body of his fallen friend , it ’s Vader who stands victorious , ascertain his former master ignite in flames .
It makes for a great visual moment to give up the military issue off . But it ’s also totally Anakin Skywalker .
In the meter frame of this government issue , it ’s been three year since this here and now actually played out the direction it actually did — and he ’s still draw back to it . Imagining what it would be like now that he finally has the power he arrogantly assure Obi - Wan not lowball . Going over that moment over and over , just to prove to no one but his own conscience that if it happened now , he ’d be victorious . It ’s a side of Vader we rarely see — in the original picture show he exudes a quiet self-assurance as part of his intimidating aura . But this variety of almost childish braggadocio ? That ’s perfectly the Anakin we know of from the prequels . And it make sense that late down , underneath the stoic unsubduable figure of Darth Vader , he can still be the gentleman’s gentleman he once was .
This latest run of the Darth Vader comic , set in the fertile ground of the early years after the Republic ’s fall , has n’t been afraid torelitigate some elements from Revenge of the Sith . But it ’s nice to see the series revisit the film in ways that dig out more intowhat Anakin Skywalker is like as a piece nowin some interesting way like this . Even if they are , in realism , displays of just delightfully petty Anakin can still be .
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