Betrayal

by Scott Allie

In the weeks before the events in "Star Wars: A New Hope," as the Death Star is readied for its fateful first mission, a power-hungry cabal of Grand Mofs and Imperial Officers embark on a dangerous... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569719640
• ISBN13: 9781569719640
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.5" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

novelita perfecta!

este cómico es muy bien y interesante. Quiero tener el fuerzo porque es muy peligroso y impresante. gracías

Good book.

My Husband actually likes these books and he is 40. He is a big fan of Star Wars (not to the point of collecting SW items) and likes to read most of the spin offs. He said that these books are written pretty good.

Gran serie de Darth Vader

El lado oscuro de la fuerza tiene su propia serie. Esta es la introducción a una serie de cuarenta numeros que impactan como todo Star Wars. Inolvidable y eterna de una galaxia muy lejana.

A nice break

I found this graphic novel to be a change from standard Empire vs. Rebels. Instead it's Empire vs. Empire, which get's very interesting. Speaking of interesting, Trachta's (Grand Moff Trachta, the leader of the attempted coup) plot to overthrow the Sith was very. An unusaul thing for a Grand Moff to be doing, but anyway. The new characters were excellently done (Trachta, Kadir, Gauer). Very good art by Ryan Benjamin improved the rating to 4 stars. The only minus to Betrayal was the shortness. Could have been a lot longer (and a lot better). A good read.

Too short but well-written; this is a good story arc.

While the artistic depictions of some characters may be a bit dodgy, this first story arc of the Empire comic was well "storyboarded" and well-written. Vader fighting cloned stormtroopers on Coruscant. What can I say? This was a good way to grab the reader's attention right at the start. One weakness of Betrayal is that we don't get much story surrounding new characters such as Trachta and Gauer; also, things move rather quickly at one point, and the comic probably could have been better if the progress of the conspiracy had been fleshed out for two more issues. The design of Trachta is nice because it shows another example of Imperial use of cyborging via a breathing apparatus. I would like to see some of the new characters from this story arc in later material. It should be mentioned here that the plot of some Imperial generals trying to assassinate Vader is ultimately derived from the incident with Hitler's generals, and it's already been used in the Marvel comic series. In fact, both versions ( Marvel and Dark Horse ) involve an airlock, but the scenes are played differently. The drama of the Marvel scene is all about the generals thinking Vader's been blown out into space, and then Vader's hand appears on the edge of the airlock and he hauls himself back into the ship. In Betrayal's version we get to see Vader "flying" around in the breached airlock with lightsaber on, slicing through huge chunks of metallic debris.