Star Wars Legacy To End

[lazypadawan]

Hidden way down in a list of SW comics solicitations for June 2010 on Rebelscum.com and starwars.com is a description of Legacy #50 with this at the very end:

The final issue of Star Wars: Legacy!

I guess after four years, c'est tout for Cade Skywalker and company.

For me, Legacy turned out to be a mixed bag. The art was always good and the script was usually top-notch, but the overall story was directionless and its protagonist Cade never changed very much. I never did care for the premise that the post-ROTJ world devolved into another totalitarian Empire eventually taken over by another Sithocracy. But I was willing to go along with it because other aspects of the comic was done really well. At first Cade was compelling but he never became the hero he needed to be. No matter what happened to him, he never learned a darn thing. Maybe now he will since he's got only a few more issues to go. But it's as though they wanted to keep him where he was because he will seem "cool" to readers. The series seemed to be allergic to having any major heroic characters.

Supposedly there are seven new projects in the pipeline. Let's hope they'll get back to good ol' fashioned SW values and ideals.

Comments

[pronker]

They dropped the Vaos soon, a fairly idealistic duo --- I got a little tired of Nyna and the twist of her being Cade's mom didn't turn out very well for me. I guess I liked Nyna as a villain and thought she added some middle-aged hotness with Veed. The A'Sharad Hett reveal was the best part of the comic, to me. And seeing Obi-Wan doing his heroism defending the Lars. I could have sworn that Asajj was in a group of Sith pilots, too. It was a hoot.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

The Obi-Wan issue was pretty good and I liked the twist that Hett was Darth Krayt.