{"id":247,"date":"2007-05-05T14:55:37","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T14:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=247"},"modified":"2015-02-20T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T16:18:10","slug":"star-wars-empire-vol-3-the-imperial-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/05\/05\/star-wars-empire-vol-3-the-imperial-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: Empire vol 3, The Imperial Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/sweip.jpg\" alt=\"Star Wars: Empire vol 3, The Imperial Perspective\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Various (Dark Horse Books)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84023-933-6<\/p>\n<p>This collection of stories deals with the battle between Empire and Rebel from the viewpoint of the bad guys. Reprinting adventures from the comic <strong>Star Wars: Empire<\/strong> (specifically issues 13, 14 and 16 &#8211; 19) it contains <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What Sin Loyalty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> by Jeremy Barlow and Patrick Blaine wherein an imperial storm-trooper\/clone ponders the imponderables and re-examines his values during the last moments of the Deathstar, followed by <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Savage Heart\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> by Paul Alden and Raul Trevino, a cinematic and painterly actioner with a crash-landed Darth Vader fighting his way back to civilisation.<\/p>\n<p>The real gem here is Welles Hartley and Davide Fabri&#8217;s <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153To the Last Man\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> which has echoes of <strong>The Young Lions<\/strong>, <strong>Cross of Iron<\/strong> and <strong>Zulu<\/strong>. Janek Sunber is a junior officer in the imperial infantry who finds himself and his unit trapped on a jungle world facing impossible odds, and hampered at every turn by the inept officer-nobility ranked above him. Rounding out the volume is another outing for the Dark Lord of the Sith in <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Target: Vader\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> by Ron Marz and Brian Ching, a fairly standard, if engagingly illustrated, tale of espionage and assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike most media-derived comic productions many of the <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> publications manage to rise above their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cashing-in\u00e2\u20ac\u009d origins, and this book is a fine example of good comics as well as a welcome addition to the canon of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars \u00c2\u00a9 2004 Lucasfilm Ltd. &amp; \u00e2\u201e\u00a2. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Various (Dark Horse Books) ISBN 1-84023-933-6 This collection of stories deals with the battle between Empire and Rebel from the viewpoint of the bad guys. Reprinting adventures from the comic Star Wars: Empire (specifically issues 13, 14 and 16 &#8211; 19) it contains \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What Sin Loyalty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Jeremy Barlow and Patrick Blaine wherein &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/05\/05\/star-wars-empire-vol-3-the-imperial-perspective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Wars: Empire vol 3, The Imperial Perspective&#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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-3Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}