STAR WARS Shattered Empire Graphic Novel (Rucka, Checchetto, Unzueta)

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Journey to Star Wars The Force Awakens: STAR WARS Shattered Empire Graphic Novel (by Rucka, Checchetto, Unzueta). This preowned Star Wars grahic novel is in near mint condition as pictured.

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Series: Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Publisher: Marvel Comics (November 2015)

If you go by what many fictional stories tell us, when the bad guy is defeated, you mourn your dead and then you throw a party. That’s not how reality works. Just ask the soldiers and civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq and so many other places where the war never ends, even when it’s over.

Of course, we don’t want our entertainment reflecting that reality. We don’t want to sit through Frodo moping around in the burning Shire, or Ender raging against that genocide he was tricked into causing. So what if this is the culmination of the heroes journey according to Joseph Campbell. We don’t want to see the sad parts.

Return of the Jedi ended with a party at Ewokville and we were all invited. Yub nub, bitches!

Return of the Jedi
War’s over. Everybody go home.

But in Shattered Empire, Rucka reminds us of the harsh truth: the war isn’t over till the fat ewok sings (which we see hasn’t really happened 30 years later in TFA). And he also reminds us that the faces at the front aren’t the only heroes.

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Shattered Empire drops us right outside the Emperor’s door as Han’s team struggles to collapse the shields around the Death Star and the pilots desperately try to protect the rebel ships from the trap they’ve flown into. On the ground, we meet Kes Dameron, but the focus of the series is above, on pilot Shara Bey.