Immonen and Grawbadger have another strong installment here with what they do in presenting the storyline, giving it a great sense of scale and action that just clicks wonderfully. While I'm totally on board with the character capture aspects of it as they nail the actors just right here, what I really love is that Immonen is able to make these action sequences, which can be completely dorky in how they look, simply engaging and dynamic to watch unfold. You don't just get through it to the result, you savor the motion and details of it all. That's compounded by Aaron's script that gives the team plenty to illustrate and bring to life. Though you can be like Han and wonder if this was all just for a book, the end result is that Luke continues to step into the bigger world and it's intriguing to see what new details surface each storyline. Read Full Review

Once again Marvel delivers big Star Wars moments that are vital parts of these characters' stories. Read Full Review

Star Wars #12 is yet another sensational entry in this fantastic expansion series, as despite certain aspects not quite feeling right, the overall tone was truly gripping. It also sets up crossover event, Vader Down, in a marvellous fashion, building further upon the canon. Read Full Review

Aaron's second arc on this book finished almost as strong as the first one. We would have liked just a little more advancement on the Han/Leia/Sana front, but I'm not convinced we've seen the last of her anyway, so this book really did everything I needed it to do. Read Full Review

An excellent conclusion to a fantastic arc. Luke Skywalker's search for Jedi knowledge takes him down a dangerous path that ends spectacularly. Read Full Review

Marvel's flagship Star Wars comic continues to fire on all cylinders. It's over-the-top in the best way possible, as Aaron is never afraid to take chances and make the most of this pivotal point in the Star Wars timeline. Meanwhile, Immonen continues to deliver page after page of top-notch action and adventure. It'll be sad to see him move on, but like John Cassaday, there's always hope we'll see more from the artist in this franchise. Read Full Review

STAR WARS #12 is a solid entry in to what is one of the best STAR WARS books Marvel is currently publishing. It offers a nice lead in to VADER DOWN which begins this week (be on the lookout for our review of the first issue!), and resolves various plotlines from this story arc. It's got great character moments, awesome artwork from Stuart Immonen, and feels a lot like it could have been ripped right from the silver screen. So why does it feel hollow? Because it can't reveal anything about it's characters that we don't already know. Aaron will have to find a way around that once VADER DOWN wraps and we return to our regularly scheduled programming. Read Full Review

Great action, and compelling artwork save this book from being too laden with some lazy writing choices concerning the main characters. Also, seeing Leia wield a lightsaber is worth it alone to pick up Star Wars #12. Read Full Review

In isolation, Showdown on the Smugglers' Moon was a decent arc, and the adrenaline-fueled climax here makes for a genuinely great issue. However, as both Zeno's Paradox and Aaron's run thus far demonstrate, the quality of this run is trending downward and is likely to continue in that direction (if Aaron had any better ideas for these characters, why would he have introduced Sana into the mix?). Hopefully the upcoming Vader Down crossover, already off to an amazing start in the one shot, will reverse this trend and breath some new life into the series, bring it from "worth checking out" back to "an instant classic and a worthy of the mantel of 'Episode Four Point Five.'" Read Full Review

Awesome ending to another awesome story arc. Aaron's ability to write compelling stories inside a well established and known by heart environment is uncanny. This ending not only provided us with a fun story and an epic moment for our heroes, all of them wielding a lightsaber for the first time, but also with an actually relevant turn of events, with Vader taking everything Grakkus had about the Jedi and arguably confiscating it. The establishment of new characters like Sana and the Gamemaster was also appreciated, as they might become big gears in the stories to come. The art by Immonen was top-notch as usual.

This series (and the Darth Vader series) has been a consistent stream of great writing and art.

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