Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison #2 of 5

Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison #2 of 5
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Haden Blackman
Art by Agustin Alessio

Ok, I didn’t get the first book but let me fill you in on what’s happening. The seven military academies of the Empire are graduating with Emperor Palpatine reviewing the graduates. One of the valedictorians, Laurita Tohm was put into a sabotaged fighter craft and sent out into space as a terrorist attack took out most of the clones. Darth Vader and some others survived and with Laurita coming back to see what happened, they must try and survive find out who did this and protect the Emperor. This is a lot more interesting that anything that’s happened at my graduations.

I want to start with the writing; this was very well written. The writers knew when to get in depth with dialog and when to just let the story go with just the art. Now, the art itself is the basic style for the Star Wars books and storylines out there. But, just as I’ve said in the past, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, the same rings true here. They have something that fits the story and universe within it, there was no need to change it. Lastly, the paneling was done mostly in basic squares but there are some pages where they stray from that and again it fit.

Now reading this, I realized that I don’t think I’ve had a truly bad experience reading any of the Star Wars books from Dark Horse. This one is no exception. The story flowed with no problems. It was presented in a format that draws you in and carries you along as you walk with Lord Vader, Laurita and anyone they come across. You really don’t know whom to root for because everyone is pretty much evil but how can you go against good’ol Darth? Get the first book, get this book and follow the rest, you’ll thank me, in my humble opinion. I give this a 4.5 caps out of 5.