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lucymonsterSo, three very important things happened in this issue:
1) Kylo committed some extremely snarky, badass murders.
2) We got a big heartbreaking spread of flashbacks to his childhood surrounded by people who loved him and did their best.
3) This obscenely RTMI bit of id bait happened:
Based on Vaneé's shifty behaviour my guess is that the whole misadventure has been orchestrated by Palpatine as a new phase of his transform-Ben-Solo-into-an-easily-controlled-Vader-replacement project. On the one hand I have to confess I'm getting a bit tired of Somehow Palpatine as a plot device, but on the other hand I kind of love it as a transition between TLJ and TROS: Kylo believes he's taken control of his life by killing Snoke, and he hasn't yet realised there's still someone else pulling his strings, and by the time the Fortnite broadcast happens a year from now he's going to be so, so jack of being manipulated by crusty old puppetmaster dudes. It adds some extra depth and context as to why his immediate reaction to the broadcast is Fuck No Kill It With Fire.
I continue to love everything about the way Soule writes Kylo: the excruciating vulnerability, the compulsive dishonesty with himself, the way he veers wildly between cool sarcastic swagger and chaotic, self-defeating impulsivity. I also continue to be baffled by the fact that no comic artist alive seems able to produce a passing likeness of Adam Driver's face - I'm no artist myself but is it really that hard??? Fanartists seem to manage fine??? But at this point I've mostly made my peace with the fact that this whole Western superhero comics art style just isn't for me and that I have to wilfully look past the ugliness if I want to get to the good stuff.
I know this isn't much of a review but you guys will have to excuse me now. There's a, um, certain panel that I need to go meditate on at very great length and in very great depth.
1) Kylo committed some extremely snarky, badass murders.
2) We got a big heartbreaking spread of flashbacks to his childhood surrounded by people who loved him and did their best.
3) This obscenely RTMI bit of id bait happened:
Based on Vaneé's shifty behaviour my guess is that the whole misadventure has been orchestrated by Palpatine as a new phase of his transform-Ben-Solo-into-an-easily-controlled-Vader-replacement project. On the one hand I have to confess I'm getting a bit tired of Somehow Palpatine as a plot device, but on the other hand I kind of love it as a transition between TLJ and TROS: Kylo believes he's taken control of his life by killing Snoke, and he hasn't yet realised there's still someone else pulling his strings, and by the time the Fortnite broadcast happens a year from now he's going to be so, so jack of being manipulated by crusty old puppetmaster dudes. It adds some extra depth and context as to why his immediate reaction to the broadcast is Fuck No Kill It With Fire.
I continue to love everything about the way Soule writes Kylo: the excruciating vulnerability, the compulsive dishonesty with himself, the way he veers wildly between cool sarcastic swagger and chaotic, self-defeating impulsivity. I also continue to be baffled by the fact that no comic artist alive seems able to produce a passing likeness of Adam Driver's face - I'm no artist myself but is it really that hard??? Fanartists seem to manage fine??? But at this point I've mostly made my peace with the fact that this whole Western superhero comics art style just isn't for me and that I have to wilfully look past the ugliness if I want to get to the good stuff.
I know this isn't much of a review but you guys will have to excuse me now. There's a, um, certain panel that I need to go meditate on at very great length and in very great depth.
