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But thanks to the brilliant creative team of Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca, MarvelsDarth Vaderwas a rousing success.
It became one of the most critically successful and fan beloved books in Marvels monthly output.
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Where Luke Force pushes two of Jabbas Gammorean Guards aside, Vader simply slaughters the two porcine sentries.
It was a killer way to open MarvelsDarth Vaderseries.
Vader gives Fett his marching orders and then goes back to the business at hand slaughtering Sand People.
This stunning Marvel moment revealed there is still a thirst for vengeance that burns in Darth Vaders cybernetic body.
InDarth Vader#2, Tagge assigns an Imperial toady named Oon-Ai to report on Vaders actions.
Oon-Ai takes every opportunity to disrespect Vader and remind the Sith of his demotion.
After Vader destroys the pirates, he arrives back at Tagges ship with Oon-Ais corpse.
Vader claims he discovered that Oon-Ai was a pirate agent and a traitor.
Vader hands the stranger over to 0-0-0.
Fetts Message
Darth Vader #6
It was Vaders darkest hour.
Hed discovered that Palpatine had charged the mysterious Doctor Cylo with building warrior replacements for the disgraced Vader.
At this moment, Vader learned that he was expendable.
With this knowledge, Vader returns to his ship and Doctor Aphra.
There, Boba Fett is waiting for him.
Fett says a single word: Skywalker.
(The Fett-Skywalker confrontation appeared in Jason Aarons excellent mainStar Warstitle.)
Aphra pays off an information broker to find Tahn.
It all seems pretty by the books until 0-0-0 asks why Vader is interested in such a nobody.
Its a quick and decisive dogfight and Vader doesnt even have a ship.
He just has his red blade and a need to dispatch the Rebels fast and clean.
Luke is overmatched but flies straight into Vaders ship causing the Dark Lord to crash.
On the ground, Vader is greeted by a large battalion of heavily armed Rebels.
The Rebels demand Vader put down his saber.
Before they can blink, Vader uses the Force to pull the pins off the Rebels grenades.
Vader then takes out a squadron of speeders before renewing the hunt for his son.
This moment of pure domination speaks to the absolute awesome military might that Vader single handedly wields.
Of course, we knowreaders know that this is also an ironic battle between father and daughter.
Vader showes his might during Vader Down, but Leias will is just as strong.
Aolin, in particular, desires Vaders training.
Of course, since these enhanced twins were created by Cylo, Vader never fully trusts them.
He was expecting a betrayal the entire mission and coldly raises his lightsaber to fend off the twins attack.
So as the battle continues, Morit betrays his sister and shovs her into a lava put.
Oh, No A Rancor!
As the series windw, Vader is on the hunt for Doctor Cylo.
The Sith has dispatched all but one of Cylos creations the weapons laden female scientist known as Voidgazer.
She uses her scientific acumen to create a fearsome weapon that is part organic, part machine.
Earlier on in the series, Vader defeated a similar creation, a Trandoshan killing machine, rather easily.
But this time, Voidgazer ups the ante by bringing to life a cyborg Rancor!
This duel goes down in a very unlikely place, too.
More Machine Than Man?
Well, Vaders body might have been paralyzed thanks to Cylo, but the Siths mind is dangerously active.
Vader mentally replays the battle with Obi-Wan Kenobi, and in this mental recreation, Vader is victorious.
This act of pure brutality breaks Cylos control over Vader.
A stunned Cylo watches as Vader proves that the Dark Lord is neither man nor machine.
For the entirety of the series, Cylo used biological ships to tool around the galaxy.
Part mechanical, part sentient, these ships were giant tortured beasts forced to serve as space craft.
