{"id":253,"date":"2007-05-07T08:08:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T08:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=253"},"modified":"2014-10-23T14:05:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T14:05:50","slug":"star-wars-empire-vol-5-allies-and-adversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/05\/07\/star-wars-empire-vol-5-allies-and-adversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: Empire vol 5, Allies and Adversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/sweaa.jpg\" alt=\"Star Wars: Empire vol 5, Allies and Adversaries\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Various (Dark Horse Books)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84576-272-X<\/p>\n<p>Space opera fans have another fine romp on their hands as the classic cast members of the now-legendary film franchise strut their swashbuckling stuff in a selection of tales taken from issues #23-27 of the Dark Horse comic.<\/p>\n<p>The action starts with <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Bravery of Being Out of Range\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> by Jeremy Barlow and Brandon Badeaux, a tale of smuggling and subterfuge, and proceeds with <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Idiots Array\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> by Ron Marz, Jeff Johnson and Joe Corroney, with Han Solo and Chewbacca betrayed by old friends whilst on a mission for the Rebels. Darth Vader is on hand to provide some chills, too.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153General&#8217; Skywalker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> from Marz, Adriana Melo and Nicholas Scott closes the book, with the boy-hero teaming up with a stranded Clone-Warrior, lost since before Palpatine made himself Emperor, against a horde of Imperials on a rampage.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no great import to these adventures, just good old-fashioned thud\u00e2\u20ac\u201cand-blunder heroics, drawn well and engrossingly scripted, and surely that&#8217;s enough to ask for?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2006 Lucasfilm Ltd. &amp; \u00e2\u201e\u00a2. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Various (Dark Horse Books) ISBN 1-84576-272-X Space opera fans have another fine romp on their hands as the classic cast members of the now-legendary film franchise strut their swashbuckling stuff in a selection of tales taken from issues #23-27 of the Dark Horse comic. The action starts with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Bravery of Being Out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/05\/07\/star-wars-empire-vol-5-allies-and-adversaries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Wars: Empire vol 5, Allies and Adversaries&#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":[80,124,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adaptations","category-licensed-product","category-star-wars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-45","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","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=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}