This Halloween readers of IDW's "Star Wars Adventures" were given a treat. Each week in October a comic called "Tales from Vader's Castle" brought a little darkness to the Galaxy. Sure, "Star Wars Adventures" is aimed at children, but that doesn't mean adults can't share in the fun.
Issue #1: The Haunting of
the Ghost
Kanan,
Hera, & Chopper
Set
in the early years of Kanan & Hera this tale features a Sith ghost that has
possessed a crashed ship (and who eventually takes over Chopper). If a Sith
infested Chopper isn’t enough, there is also a great Twi’lek pun “You should
have run Twi’lek… you should have turned head-tail and fled”.
Issue #2: Count Dooku:
Prince of Darkness
Obi-Wan,
Adi Gallia, Count Dooku
Jedi
Master’s Obi-Wan Kenobi and Adi Gallia have been sent to planet Bray to
investigate some dark deeds. High in a fortress the Jedi discover that Count
Dooku has teamed up with creatures not unlike giant vampyric bats. Dooku plans
to use the creatures to turn the Republic clones against them, but soon Dooku
is betrayed and turns into a dark creature himself.
Issue #3: The Briar Witch
Han
Solo & Chewbacca
Han
& Chewie are hired to deliver a Tooka statue to planet Rendel which is
rumored to be haunted. But what they find there is half horror story and half
fairy tale with themes drawn from both “Sleeping Beauty” and “Rip Van Winkle”.
It’s
still odd to me that there are now two Han Solos in Star Wars canon (Alden
Ehrenreich’s version and Harrison Ford’s). Though this story clearly takes
place in the Ehrenreich timeline, we do (oddly enough) get a bit of Ford in
here.
Issue #4: The Night of the
Gorax
Chirpa,
Ra-Lee & Logray
A
generation before "Return of the Jedi", the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village are in
crisis mode. Someone has been taking woklings from their cribs and it’s up to
Chripa and his friends to solve the mystery.
Though
this story is a mere fourteen pages it manages to cram in almost every aspect
of Endor mythology including Wisties, Boar-Wolves, Duloks, Condor Dragons, the
Sunstar and a Gorax.
Issue #5: The Terror of
Darth Vader
Lina
Graf, Hudd, XM-G3 & Crater
Lina
Graf is one of the protagonists of the children’s book series “Adventures in
Wild Space”. In this tale Lina is all grown up and in command of a Rebel mission. When the
mission goes sour her team crash lands on planet Mustafar in front of a dark
castle. Here they encounter strange beasts, obsidian stormtroopers, and maybe
even the Dark Lord himself.
Find these issues in your local comic shop or preorder the full collection now!
More Star Wars Halloween Posts...
Tales from Vader's Castle Year 1:
https://roadto7.blogspot.com/2018/11/tales-from-vaders-castle.html
https://roadto7.blogspot.com/2018/11/tales-from-vaders-castle.html
Tales from Vader's Castle Year 2:
https://roadto7.blogspot.com/2019/10/return-to-vaders-castle.html
https://roadto7.blogspot.com/2019/10/return-to-vaders-castle.html
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