Dark Times #12 (Vector part 6)

So today's review is of the sixth part of the Vector Story line interweaving all the star wars titles in Dark Horse.

This issue is Dark Times 12 and is written by Mick Harrison and pencilled by Doug Wheatley.

The art is very good.  I'm not going to say it was amazing but after the art in Knights of the Old Republic anything would be good.  Man was that bad and cartoony.  It almost dragged me out of the story.  I felt like i was watching anime... wait i was supposed to be talking about this one.  The art was good.

The writing was great. The evil beneath Vader and the good and anguish behind Celeste.  All the characters are very different from each other and you can tell their personalities by the way the react to each other.  Good Stuff.

The story her deals with the (and i am not going to check the spelling on this shit) Muur Talisman, a sith artifact.  This talisman has the ability to change living creatures to RakBeast. The controller of the talisman also has control of the beasts' minds.  This is why the talisman is very sought after by Jedi.  Well coming out of KotOR, Celeste had control and she was put in a hibernation chamber to wake up in the future in which she hope the jedi have won.  man was she wrong.  Vader has unearthed her chamber and is trying to mind control her to get it himself.  Now she is faced with a decision, Give in to Vader, give in to her old master, or kill herself.  We are left with her making the decision (which i am not going to spoil for you fuckers because i want you to read this shit).

Here is the thing that really pissed me off about this book.  I really liked it.  Part of the point of a crossover is marketing.  Lets try and get people who do not read these books reading them.  Well it worked , I was all up to continue Dark Times. This is an era in Star Wars lore that really rocks my world.  Well at the end the last page has Vector Continued in whatever the fuck the next book is, and then it says Dark Times will be continued in 2009.  Fuck you Dark Horse.  i am not going to wait five months to start a new series.  You can suck it.

Talk to y'all later,

TJ