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Today, I’m glad to bring you a review of Star Wars: Darth Maul – Son of Dathomir. This book is a hell of a lot more than you’re expecting, unless you already know what it is we’re getting into. Darth Maul is easily the most visually striking character the Star Wars prequels gave us; and SoD gives us another entry into his continued story. We have a lot to talk about with this one, so let’s get down to brass tacks.

 

As we all know, Star Wars is an absolutely massive franchise, with a web of interconnected media as dense as it gets. But in terms of recent additions, we had the 6 season animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series; which is just about the best thing to come from the prequel trilogy. The show took it upon itself to turn the canon presented in those decidedly lukewarm movies into something amazing, something that really deserved to be called Star Wars as well as genuine sci-fi. Sadly, like all good things, it got cancelled. But fans demanded more, and more is what we’re getting. The Star Wars: The Clone Wars Legacy project was launched, turning every last scrap of script and canon left unanimated for that show into comics and novels. The first completed project under that banner? The title we have in front of us today.

Super quick plot catch up, for those who’ve only known Darth Maul through the movie he was introduced and unceremoniously knocked off in. Maul was raised by force-sensitive witches, and given to Darth Sidious to spare him a life of slavery on his own planet. Raised as a Sith Apprentice but intended, without his knowledge, to be a disposable tool for life as a Sith Assassin; Maul has had a decidedly samurai upbringing despite the prequel trilogy’s absence of samurai inspiration. Comics and the Clone Wars show give us a portrait of Maul as a furious revenger, raging against his former masters with all the skills they gave him.

This comic takes place after the series wraps, when the last we saw of Maul was his capture by his former masters and the death of his brother Savage Opress fresh in his mind. Needless to say, this comic continues the violent revenge Maul set into action in the series. Every Dathomirian is at some point spurned by the Sith, and each in turn takes to revenge against their former masters. Maul is no exception, and issue 1 sees him broken out of jail after an intense interaction with the object of his hate Count Dooku (his replacement as apprentice and the favorite of his former master). This trade absolutely never settles down, giving us scene after scene of savage Maul action. Maul and his allies absolutely tear through the Sith in perfect form, and I won’t give away the ending but it genuinely shows how cruel the Sith can be and sets Maul up with even more hate in his heart.

I may be slightly biased, as a fan of the clone wars as well as a fan of Maul; but take my word on this. If you liked The Clone Wars at all, and kept up with it, you already have this book. If you don’t, what’s the hold up! It has everything: bad guys fighting worse guys! Darth Maul is back! Mandalorians! You can’t top this book Star Wars fans, so go get it.

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