Star Wars Legacy Volume 2 #4 cover image

Prisoner of the Floating World Part Four

Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 is a new comic book series that takes place “approximately 138 years after the events in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.”  Legacy Volume 2 focuses on junk dealer, Ania Solo, the great-great granddaughter of Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo.

Young Miss Solo finds a battered Imperial communications droid and a lost lightsaber.  Soon, Ania is on the run with her friend Sauk, an ice harvester and refugee from Mon Calamari.  Later, AG-37, an ancient assassin droid, joins them.  Meanwhile, young Imperial Knight, Jao Assam, searches for the master to whom he is apprenticed, Imperial Knight Yalta Val.  The quartet becomes involved in a Sith conspiracy involving the building of a communications array in the Carreras System.

As Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 #4 opens, Governor Biala of Shifala begins to realize that she cannot trust Imperial Knight Yalta Val, who has taken control of the construction of the Shifalan communications array.  Little does she realize that this Val is an imposter and is actually a Sith warrior.

Ania, Sauk, AG-37, and Jao fall into a deadly trap, and Sauk makes a discovery about a disappearing planet.  Can they escape with these secrets and their lives?

THE LOWDOWN:  Brian Wood and Carlos D’Anda’s new eponymous Star Wars comic book series is getting a lot of attention.  However, Corrina Bechko and Gabriel Hardman’s Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 is the best new Star Wars comic book series of the year.  I’m starting to think that Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 is the best Star Wars comic book series I’ve read, after my beloved Marvel Comics’ Star Wars, of course.

Co-writer Corrina Bechko and co-writer/artist Gabriel Hardman have created a comic book with such dense character drama, superb character development, intricate politics, and intense plotting that it reads like a Star Wars novel… after only four issues!  This is Star Wars as George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan imagined it.

POSSIBLE AUDIENCE:  Anyone who reads Star Wars comic books must read Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2.