i was thinking. ive read most vader comics and i have to say i genuinely dont get the high opinion fans seem to have for them— the plots never excited me much, the art is very hit and miss etc, but most importantly in just think that the….. very concept of a “vader comic” (ie a comic where we follow darth vader’s adventures) is inherently bound to suck. just because darth vader isn’t meant to be a main character lol. once you stop having him appear in carefully chosen, very limited scenes and instead start having him be onscreen (on page?) 24/7, doing flips, fighting tentacle aliens, teaming up with quirky sidekick after quirky sidekick, getting beat up almost to death every single time but surviving because he’s the force’s specialest boy etc he stops having anything in common with vader from the movies aside from his appearance, he loses his impact as a character and more often than not looks really silly lol. maybe it’s because i’m not a comics person but almost every one i’ve read was more or less puerile and cartoonish so i truly don’t think any of these would work at all in live action— like i keep seeing people suggest
this is also why the dark visions comic with the obsessed nurse is my favorite of the bunch— to me it’s the ONLY way to make a vader comic work: since vader can’t fundamentally change as a character in the comics (as they are set between movies, where the actual plot happens) it’s tiresome to waste our time on filler slash retcon action-adventure story n3682. the stories are just artistically worthless. just have him feature in someone else’s story instead as the fearsome, looming presence he was in esb and do something interesting for once. which is what they did here. felt fresh, entertaining and darkly funny 👍 (and thank god, no ooc vader for once either)
that comic was a pleasant (very) softcore horror story and fans hated it. guys. i THOUGHT you wanted a mature, adult, horror, dark, 18+ whatever vader story? you can’t shut up about the damn dark and mature darth vader story you think disney should make but you don’t like it when they give you a taste of one?
oh wait. when you guys say ‘dark’ and ‘mature’ you just mean “darth vader should be so cool and badass and kill everyone with his laser sword and he says edgy one liners and then he kills some more faceless goons and he uses the foooorce” lol














