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We are back again with Star Wars #39 and "The Ashes of Jedha" continues. A quick correction, I identified the character that shows up on the last panel of the last issue as Two-Tubes but I was mistaken- it's actually his eggmate Benthic. There is actually some well done, hand drawn art by Larroca in this issue. As I've said before I like his work, apart from his photo referenced faces. I think faces must be his weakness as an artist because he very infrequently does them by hand, choosing instead to paste a photo-face in there. Other than that, he's a fine artist. I've  liked his work on the first Vader series, back to his work on Punisher MAX. When it comes to his photo referencing however, there is some really shameful looking stuff in this issue- take a look: Just absurd. This is the main reason readers have a problem with Larroca. Who thinks this looks good? As you can see, other than the face, it's a decent drawing with detail. The face ruins ...

In Star Wars #38, Kieron Gillen joins as main writer, replacing Jason Aaron who had written  Star Wars  up until this point. My personal opinion is that Aaron's run overall, has been hit and miss and he didn't seem to have a good grasp on the characters. Now that Gillen has joined the comic, I hope he can breathe in some fresh air, and I thought this was a good point to start writing this blog. I'm a  big fan of Kieron Gillen, his  Darth Vader  comics were very well done and really captured the character of Vader. I also very much enjoyed  Uber , his alternate-reality, extremely gruesome World War 2 title. So I am very interested to see where Gillen is going to take the story, after Jason Aaron's run left us with many "one-off" arcs that did not particularly have any importance to the wider canon and didn't really offer much character development or insight for Han, Luke and Leia. I thought "The Ashes of Jedha" started off with promise, I ...