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Star Wars: Poe Dameron
Jan. 5th, 2021 04:54 pmThis has been a really fun reading project. Historically I've never been much of a western comics reader, but Star Wars has slowly been breaking me down. Most of what I have to say about this series is positive, so I'll get the negativity out of the way first: I'm so, so confused by how it ended??? Maybe this is a normal comics thing that I, a newbie, just don't have my head around yet? But the plotline of the first four collected volumes ends on the mother of all cliffhangers for the main antagonist, and then the entirety of volume five is missing scenes from movie canon with said villain never mentioned again. I had to triple-check the list of published issues because it was so jarring I assumed my digital reader had failed to download the pages where it all gets wrapped up. I'm still lowkey worried maybe that's what happened. I don't know if there was a cancellation or a drastic change of plans or something. It was just a weird dead drop after what up to that point felt like a well paced, well planned story arc.
But anyway: positivity! I'm head over heels for Terex. I already loved him from the bits and pieces of the comics I'd read, and from fic, but reading the whole thing gave me so many new levels of appreciation. He's such an engaging, fun character - morally bankrupt even within his own ethical framework, prone to weird alternating fits of mercy and brutality, so horny for Poe Dameron that his erection juts right off the page. And he mentions Kylo Ren two (2) times so naturally I ship that like burning as well.
I also got properly introduced to Suralinda, who until now has only really registered as a background character in novels and fic. I was missing out. She's GREAT. All of Black Squadron is great. I now understand why people were upset about Snap's death in TROS, and why Jess Pava shows up in a bunch of femslash. Which means there's lots of shiny new-to-me fic to read as well!
I enjoyed the in-depth look at how the Resistance runs, and it added some interesting depth to the movies. (More accurately, it added some interesting depth to the first two movies while drawing attention to just how much the third one didn't do its homework, but I've already made my peace with TROS being a trashfire so w/e.) I'm always a sucker for political worldbuilding, and the First Order cold war stuff was done with much more nuance than I expected given how Good Special Hero Kicks Bad Guy Butt the overall premise is. And the torture buddies scene in the fifth volume gave me more Finn/Poe/Rey feelings than I've had in a while, so that was nice.
In summary: 8/10, a very good star war. Lost me a bit at the end but was good enough along the way to still feel worth it.
But anyway: positivity! I'm head over heels for Terex. I already loved him from the bits and pieces of the comics I'd read, and from fic, but reading the whole thing gave me so many new levels of appreciation. He's such an engaging, fun character - morally bankrupt even within his own ethical framework, prone to weird alternating fits of mercy and brutality, so horny for Poe Dameron that his erection juts right off the page. And he mentions Kylo Ren two (2) times so naturally I ship that like burning as well.
I also got properly introduced to Suralinda, who until now has only really registered as a background character in novels and fic. I was missing out. She's GREAT. All of Black Squadron is great. I now understand why people were upset about Snap's death in TROS, and why Jess Pava shows up in a bunch of femslash. Which means there's lots of shiny new-to-me fic to read as well!
I enjoyed the in-depth look at how the Resistance runs, and it added some interesting depth to the movies. (More accurately, it added some interesting depth to the first two movies while drawing attention to just how much the third one didn't do its homework, but I've already made my peace with TROS being a trashfire so w/e.) I'm always a sucker for political worldbuilding, and the First Order cold war stuff was done with much more nuance than I expected given how Good Special Hero Kicks Bad Guy Butt the overall premise is. And the torture buddies scene in the fifth volume gave me more Finn/Poe/Rey feelings than I've had in a while, so that was nice.
In summary: 8/10, a very good star war. Lost me a bit at the end but was good enough along the way to still feel worth it.
