Legacy of Vader #4-5: It's All Just a Game (and Everyone Else is an NPC)

You think I need an enemy, Vaneé? Someone who will actually put up a fight? Someone whose defeat will actually give me something instead of just taking and taking and taking? Someone I might actually remember killing? Then find me one.

Unlike the first few issues, this second arc has taken me some time to fall in love with. Kylo spends most of it behaving in really erratic, nonsensical ways for reasons that present as extremely flimsy - and it turns out, we're supposed to find them flimsy. Kylo's adventures on Naboo end in a blistering callout from Vaneé that cuts to the heart of the true motivations he's concealing from himself. And that's not even the part that hits me hardest. This has ended up being an intensely psychological arc that shouts about an aspect of Kylo's character we've only seen in murmurs on screen.

( Spoilers below )