Re: 1/6 Hot Toys - MMS298 - Star Wars: Episode IV - Leia Organa Collectible Figure
Someone else here pointed it out to me first. Maybe it was you.
But yeah, the more I read the more annoyed I get, overall the art is nice and maybe better than the main SW comic but he needs a new model--someone send this guy the HT Vader. Even then he wouldn't do the necessary mods like raising the cod piece so it would still look all wrong. Just watch the movie![emoji38]
What's a shame is that it would actually be cool to work in the subtle suit changes into the comic but clearly whosever is running the show isn't even aware of these details. Even when they're good the comics read like fan fiction. Can't believe they consider them canon.
Yeah, I wish they had Incorporated the change in his suit too. It would have been really cool to see him switch to the ESB suit around the time he figures out he has a son and begins planning to overthrow the Emperor, with him discarding the trappings of subservience (his ANH suit), so to speak.
Some of it I like and some of it strikes me as fan fiction. I like that they kept Tagge around, and I think he is an interesting ideological opponent for Vader. There isn't near enough Imperial politics, though. I want House of Cards with Darth Vader, dammit!
I like the idea of technological substitutes for the Force, because seeing Vader interact with those walking blasphemies helps expand upon a facet of Vader we see a brief glimpse of in ANH, that being Vader as "Darth Vader the traditionalist", and the irony of that seeing as he is "more machine than man".
However, I really hate a lot of the new characters in the series. They're all very superhero comic book-y/fan fiction-y. Just evil versions of pre-existing characters.
"It's Chewbacca - but black and evil!"
"It's Threepio and Artoo - but evil!"
"It's Boba Fett - but a midget!"
"It's Indiana Jones - but in SW and she's a girl and she's annoying and we're going to shoehorn her into accompanying Vader, whom she has no business accompanying!"
Inspector Thanoth is one of the few new characters I do like. In addition, despite the very un-Star Wars setting of the recent Shu-Torun War arc, I really liked the character of Queen Trios and Vader's relationship with her.