Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command was a good read, but I had some small issues with, for instance, the art was good...most of the time, but the dreams/visions where not as good as the rest, but I can understand that the dreams/visions did have to have another kind of art so it was easier for the reader to understand that this was not present time (Well honestly if you failed to realize that you couldn't really have understood the story very well...) I just wish the art could have been a little bit better!

The story was OK, interesting enough to read, but not as interesting as Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison. But I liked the fact that Darth Vader was shown a lot of time without his mask. That was cool. But I'm also a bit confused how he could breathe without his respirator? I mean I can understand how he could do it for a short period at time, but towards the end he was without his helmet for a long time as the image shows:
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Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command was a good read, but I had some small issues with, for instance, the art was good...most of the time, but the dreams/visions where not as good as the rest, but I can understand that the dreams/visions did have to have another kind of art so it was easier for the reader to understand that this was not present time (Well honestly if you failed to realize that you couldn't really have understood the story very well...) I just wish the art could have been a little bit better!

The story was OK, interesting enough to read, but not as interesting as Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison. But I liked the fact that Darth Vader was shown a lot of time without his mask. That was cool. But I'm also a bit confused how he could breathe without his respirator? I mean I can understand how he could do it for a short period at time, but towards the end he was without his helmet for a long time as the image shows:
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Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command was written by Haden Blackman with pencils by Rick Leonardi, inks by Dan Green, colors by Wes Dzioba, and letters by Michael Heisler. The story takes place approximately nineteen years before the Battle of Yavin, shortly after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. The story focuses on the Emperor dispatching Darth Vader on a mission to recover Grand Moff Tarkin’s son, Admiral Garoche Tarkin. Vader takes the 501st, who still wear transitional armor between that from the Clone Wars and the more familiar Stormtroopers while using Clone Wars-era vehicles. In addition to the main plot, Blackman and Leonardi depict Vader dreaming of a possible future in which Anakin Skywalker helped the Jedi to defeat Chancellor Palpatine, leading to a future with Padmé Amidala and his son. Tormented by his dreams of a future he can never have, Vader and the Emperor plot to ensure Tarkin’s son does not survive the rescue in order to fuel Tarkin’s hatred and cruelty as a weapon for the Empire. The resulting work is a great psychological work examining Vader in the early years of the Empire with Leonardi’s pencils capturing Vader’s anguish particularly well. ( )

As a long time Star Wars fan, this is the Darth Vader I've wanted to see for years.

I don't make it a secret to my friends that I wish the first prequel had started with the plot of Episode III and continued until moments before Episode IV began.

For me, I always wanted to see inside the madness of Darth Vader. A man torn, haunted by his past, bitter about the family he lost, with perhaps the slight stirs of the light side still within him...buried deep within. Thankfully, with this graphic novel, I have what I wished for.

In Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command there's plenty of emotional turmoil and action on Darth Vader's part. I wish it had been a little longer, with the minor charaters a little more developed. However, this is a soild start to filling the gap between Episode III and Episode IV. ( )

I picked this up while cruising the racks at the local library. I was between novels and had just finished a chapter in my current non-fiction read, and I was hoping for something lighter.

"Comic books," I thought, even though the section was labeled "Graphic Novels." And I'm a Star Wars geek, too, so I brought it home.

The artwork is decent, but the story was straightforward, and so, in the end, while a decent addition to the Vader's history and his decent into the evil assassin we greet at the opening of "A New Hope," I was not inspired. ( )