{"id":2187,"date":"2008-07-09T06:29:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T06:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2008-07-06T13:30:29","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T13:30:29","slug":"star-wars-rebellion-volume-2-the-ahakista-gambit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/07\/09\/star-wars-rebellion-volume-2-the-ahakista-gambit\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: Rebellion volume 2 &#8211; The Ahakista Gambit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/star-wars-rebellion-vol-2-the-ahakista-gambit.jpg\" alt=\"Star Wars: Ahakista Gambit\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Brandon Badeaux<\/strong>, <strong>Rob Williams<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Michel LaCombe<\/strong> (Dark Horse Books)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-84576-750-1<\/p>\n<p>Set just after the conclusion of the film <strong>Star Wars IV: A New Hope<\/strong>, this moody spin-off of the franchise follows the fortunes of Wyl Tarson, general thug and leg-breaker for crime-lord and information broker Raze. One fact the mastermind didn&#8217;t have was that Tarson was a secret informant for the ascendant Rebel Alliance. Until now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Implanting a bomb in Tarson&#8217;s brain Raze sends him to the backwater world of Ahakista, forcing him to bring along a team of Rebel operatives. The planet might be a worthless mudball, but the Empire has a big secret hidden there, otherwise why would someone as important as Darth Vader be involved with the petty insurrection of the lower classes against the local aristocracy?<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, has Tarson&#8217;s noble resolve lead to disaster? When he recruited his team, he picked Rebel rejects and Alliance outcasts, since he thought that their deaths couldn&#8217;t harm the Cause, but now he finds that this is a mission the Rebellion cannot afford to have fail\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Reprinting issues #6-10 of the comicbook <strong>Star Wars: Rebellion<\/strong>, written by Brandon Badeaux and Rob Williams with art from Michel LaCombe and painted colour by Wil Glass, this is a tense and highly engaging \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Caper\u00e2\u20ac\u009d yarn, which rattles along like a freight train and delivers the maximum amount of top-notch thrills and spills. Aimed at a slightly older audience this is nonetheless an accessible and inviting read for fans and new readers alike.<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars \u00c2\u00a9 2007, 2008 Lucasfilm Ltd. &amp; \u00e2\u201e\u00a2. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brandon Badeaux, Rob Williams &amp; Michel LaCombe (Dark Horse Books) ISBN: 978-1-84576-750-1 Set just after the conclusion of the film Star Wars IV: A New Hope, this moody spin-off of the franchise follows the fortunes of Wyl Tarson, general thug and leg-breaker for crime-lord and information broker Raze. One fact the mastermind didn&#8217;t have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/07\/09\/star-wars-rebellion-volume-2-the-ahakista-gambit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Wars: Rebellion volume 2 &#8211; The Ahakista Gambit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-star-wars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-zh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}