Another day, another review, another on going series. This one is for the sixth volume of Jason Aaron's "Star Wars", the flagship title for Marvel's comic book canon. Jason Aaron started off really strong with this series. Skywalker Strikes and Rebel Jail were both solid, and Vader Down and Showdown on the Smuggler's Moon were both fantastic. However, the more recent volumes have felt like filler, and it is becoming increasingly clear that Aaron has run out of ideas. Last Flight of the Harbinger...

As varied as good! I bought this in its single comic book issues, but I chosen this TPB edition to be able of making a better overall review.This TPB edition collects “Star Wars” #33-37.This comic book run is set after the events of “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” but before the events of “Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back”.Creative Team:Writers: Jason Aaron & Dash AaronIllustrators: Salvador Larroca & Andrea Sorrentino STAR WARS SPOTLIGHTS It’s not unusual en long comic book series that some

When I heard that Jason Aaron's final arc of Star Wars was all one and done stories, I was a little disappointed. He'd built up a good ongoing plot, and to see him cast it all aside felt a bit cheap.Then I read the volume, and it honestly reads like the best of his run. Each issue focuses on different characters and offers a different flavour of story, really getting into the heads of each of them in order to show where their minds are at at this point in the story.We open with Luke & Leia, who

Jason Aaron finishes up his Star Wars run by breaking up the characters into little two people solo issue adventures. The best of the bunch is the Sana and Lando issue that shows just how formidable Sana is. Salvador Larroca's art in the book has grown uglier and uglier over the last couple of volumes. His tracing of faces of photos from the movies looks odd and doesn't fit with the rest of his art in each panel. The coloring of the faces looks like a badly retouched black and white photo that h...

Jason Aaron closes out his mediocre Star Wars run with Volume 6: Out Among the Stars, a meh collection of short stories. Sana (basically Han without a willy or a giant crossbow-gun-wielding dog) with Lando in tow, double-crosses one group of villains after another in a cleverly-plotted episode. The other interesting stories feature Han outwitting Grakkus the Hutt to find out where his weapons/supplies cache is hidden while R2 rescues C-3PO from Vader’s grip in a pretty fun tale. The stories abou...

Marvel's Star Wars series is firmly in the range of awful-to-okay, and this volume is much more toward the "okay" end of the spectrum. I liked the concept of individual stories told through the eyes of a particular character. To me, that brought a freshness and forward momentum that is often lacking in the longer story arcs. What's terrible about this book is the illustrations. I don't know what happened with this volume, but almost all of the main characters look like they're simply photos from...

Mixed bag collection of seven short stories -- there are a few that are pretty entertaining ('Revenge of the Astromech' - a spry R2D2 on solo mission to rescue C-3PO; 'The Hutt Run' - Han and Chewie smuggle a Huttese prisoner through Imperial airspace; and the untitled action-heavy finale - Han and Leia trapped on a frozen remote planet, and trying to avoid an acquaintance harboring a deadly grudge) while the rest were okay if forgettable, or just pointless ('The Sand Will Provide').

Volume 6 has several different stories and one annual included.For the most part, the stories are uniformly excellent. Perhaps the weakest ones were the very first one, with Luke and Leia crash-landed on a planet, and the final Annual story, with Han and Leia dealing with an angry smuggler who hates Solo. They are also the ones with the worst art.Bear in mind that this is relative to the rest of the stories which are excellent and the artwork is gorgeous. The stories run the whole gamut and the

This was a REALLY fun one.Despite being the sixth volume in this series, this book is actually a series of short stories focusing on different characters. I didn't think I'd enjoy this so much, but I did. It's neat because each story ends with a snippet of the next one, giving them a more connected feel.The first one is about Luke and Leia being stranded and working to get back to the Rebellion. It provides some great moments from both of them, but especially Leia. I just... they're bonding and

3.5 🌟'sThe overall product was 3 star quality, but I rather enjoyed the character interactions/exchanges throughout so have decided to round up this time. Once again it seems frustrating that the volume spanning story arc is so weak. This could be because this series is constrained by being sandwiched between episode IV and V doesn't leave much wiggle room for plotting. That is my major complaint with this ongoing series. That and there are so many mini stories and one shots thrown in that it co...

Okay but far from great!A few of these stories were okay, but nothing to write home about. I have access to Volumes 7, 8, & 9 via Prime. Then I look for a sale.

Jason Aaron wraps up his tenor on the main Star Wars title with an arc of rotating one-shot stories that all tie together a little bit. Scar Squadron returns! Han does some smuggling! R2-D2 takes down a bunch of Stormtroppers!I don't mean to sound salty, because it's not a bad volume and far from the worst. And the Star Wars brand is bigger than the writer so there wasn't going to be any big send off. And hopefully the book will benefit from a new writer with some fresh ideas and stories, and on...

some parts were really good and others just okay. Hate how the art is not consistent.

How come the best SW stories are always about the droids?

And with that, Jason Aaron’s storied run on Marvel’s flagship “Star Wars” title comes to an end. Volume 6 – “Out Among the Stars” collects issues #33-37, the majority of which are one-shot issues featuring individual adventures with the usual gang of heroes, as well as Sana Starros and Lando Calrissian. While these issues may not represent the pinnacle of either Aaron or artist Salvador Larroca’s talents, this final volume still stands as a decent enough farewell for Aaron, before Kieron Gillen

This is a set of pretty good Star Wars stories that was completely ruined for me by the art. It’s not even all the art, it’s just one particular aspect of it. So more’s the pity.Apparently Salvador Larocca used photorealistic style on the major character’s faces so he did some kind of tracing off actual pictures of the actors and then these were colored in tones to make them look more like photographs, not drawings. The results at times look like a child scissored out the faces of the actors fro...

Almost a 4 stars mixed bag of stories about well-matched pairs of characters, my most favourite ones were the Han/Chewie, the droids and the group Scar stormtroopers one.Now I like much more Sana, but her team up with Lando make seem all other characters like poor idiots.And the movie frames with iconic characters faces were just too many and weird this time... just look at Han Solo.Larroca??? WTF??? Oh good grief...

This review was originally published over at my blog, The Grimoire Reliquary.Previous Volume | NextGah, Salvador Larocca, what did you do with Han’s face?! For someone who can draw well, Larocca occasionally gets real weird with the whole…rotoscopic effect? I know rotoscoping is an animation technique and this is illustration, but I can’t figure out if there’s a different phrase for this. Anyway, Larocca…Han’s face get progressively weirder and I don’t know why you wanted to give us nightmares b...

Despite (or maybe because?) it's a bunch of one-off stories, this is one of the most enjoyable volumes of the Aaron's run. Didn't love the annual, but every other issue is solid.

This is a collection of short stories. They range from Leia and Luke, R2 being awesome, and an elite squadron of stormtroopers known as Scar Squadron.Like most short story collections that I read I end up giving a three star rating. There are some stories that I love and some not so much. That is what happened here. My enjoyment went through the whole range. My favorite is probably the R2 story and once again he proves how awesome he is and why he is the actual hero of the Rebellion. I laughed o...