The title is long and unwieldy, but the story is short and tight. Shortly after Star Wars: A New Hope ends, the Rebel Alliance is abandoning Yavin IV, scattering, and will end up meeting at a new destination. One of the recon teams has been ambushed by the Empire’s Intelligence Service and all are dead but one. That one operative knows too much to fall into Imperial hands. Princess Dr. Leia* asks Han Solo and Chewbacca to retrieve the operative and get him back to […]
Who Guards the Guardians (they do, of course)
“We didn’t know that when they first arrived. Manty thought their occupation would not last, or would be token. Most believed they had come because of the temples. We thought, they have come to crush belief, because belief leads to hope, and hope can topple monsters. They will stay long enough to crush hope, but they do not understand that hope can be a very small thing. It doesn’t need much to survive. An occasional breath of air. A flicker of warmth. Hope can live […]
Joining the Family/Family Fight Night
I’ve got a ComiXology Unlimited free trial so there will be a lot of comic book reviews from me in the next few days. Lazarus Volume 2: Lift expands the world and shows us some important moments in Forever’s training. The issues collected in this volume revolve around joining the Family, and what it means to be Waste. We open with Forever as a child training to be a Lazarus. Her father visits and hangs the threat of being disowned over her head if she isn’t […]
Family First
When Lazarus opens, we see a woman being shot with a description of where each bullet hits her body and the damage it inflicts. She looks dead. The woman is Forever Carlyle, Lazarus to the Carlyle family, and she cannot be killed. She kills the three men who tried to kill her, but expresses sadness because they were just looking for food. This is of concern, because the power structure won’t last if the enforcer is questioning the structure. In the future, states have disappeared […]