I was pleasantly surprised to find just how much this story really worked to expand upon the Star Wars storyline, rather than simply telling an ultimately inconsequential side-story. I couldn’t help this wary, cynical approach, but I was interested in the character enough to give it a try. I wasn’t sure what to think of the story at first, as an ongoing featuring Darth Vader sounds like an easy cash-grab. Vader works toward discovering what the Emperor is plotting behind his back, while also seeking to learn the identity of the Force-gifted Rebel pilot he encountered outside the Death Star. As the sole survivor, the brunt of the blame for the Death Star’s destruction has rested onto Darth Vader’s shoulders and he has fallen in the esteem of his master, the Emperor, as a result. The story takes place between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. One such series that saw release in early 2015 was Darth Vader, an ongoing monthly series by Marvel Comics, written by Kieron Gillen with art by Salvador Larroca. Regrettably, this resulted in a lot of the old expanded universe fiction being relegated to “Legends” status in the canon, but I’ve seen it as an opportunity to get deeper into the now more manageable canon of expanded fiction.
With the release of Star War: The Force Awakens has come a lot of new fiction to the Star Wars universe.
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