Darth Vader’s Hunt for the Past Just Got Tragically Complex

Darth Vader’slatest ongoing comic serial publication has seen the Dark Lord of the Sith , burned by his son ’s rather actual exit from his life in Cloud City , angry and on a questto discovery vengeancefor the present his unfortunate past tense has wrought him . That seeking has an unlikely new ally , and it ’s only go to lead to heartbreak for Vader and his newfangled … familiar .

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Of course , we the audience know this is an impossibility , as does Vader himself . From the second of his giving birth as the cyborg freak he became on Mustafar , no longer just just Anakin Skywalker , Vader has sleep together thathis married woman is dead . But that is a logical system that the jar of this present moment ca n’t yield to give Vader , and with a waver of that Skywalker cult burning within him , he begins to recreate his final tragic skirmish with his married woman with this mystical raw char .

Things are about to get messy for Darth Vader. And not just because of some hostile local fauna.

Things are about to get messy for Darth Vader. And not just because of some hostile local fauna.Image: Raffaele Ienco and Neeraj Menon (Marvel Comics)

For a man so do-or-die to strap out at his past , this raw , aroused take on Vader trusted is n’t afraid to just keep retell it . But this meter , Vader does n’t go as far as he did with Padmé , allowing this ghost from his past to temporarily fall away away from both Vader and the Vendaxan wildlife that had been harangue her and her descend Man . It ’s not long , however , before Vader charm up and gets the answer he had seek to wrench out of his quarry — partially out of admission , partly from his own realization . This cleaning lady ca n’t be Padmé . But she can be her doubled : a Queen ’s Shadow , the desire handmaidens of Naboo ’s elect queen .

This in and of itself is fascinating , but it ’s made more so by the fact that this particular handmaiden is a very important one : Sabé . Played by Keira Knightley in The Phantom Menace , Sabé is the member of Padmé ’s handmaidens who took on the Queen ’s personal identity for much of the motion picture , and in E.K. Johnston’sexcellent novel Queen ’s Shadow , we got to explore her knowledgeable human relationship with the cleaning woman whose identity she must embody as her highest duty , and the personal complexities that occur with such a life .

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The mistakes of the past, almost repeated.Image: Raffaele Ienco, Neeraj Menon, and Joe Caramagna (Marvel Comics)

But it ’s not just Sabé ’s appearance here that is enthralling , within the circumstance of exploring what became of Naboo and the people in Padmé ’s life story beyond Anakin with the rise of the Empire . It ’s what Vader does upon see who Sabé is , and why she is on Vendaxa in the first place : She want the same answer he does about Padmé ’s circumstances . And so , as the panels of Darth Vader # 2 continue to smutch back between the present tense and his literally ruby - tinted yesteryear with Padmé , Anakin Skywalker lies .

It ’s a half - lie , at most — at least to us . Vader only knows that his married woman go and that she was hide away from him , information parcel out by his new master , from a sure point of view , to hide his manipulations of the events that lead to her and Anakin’sdownfall on Mustafaralike . But the truth he knows himself , not as Vader but as the world beneath the mask , is what convinces Sabé to work with him : They ’re both angry . They both want to lash out . They both lack Padmé and want answers as to why she was read from them .

In the end , as the fresh duo fight their way back to Vader ’s shuttle and the past times and present persist in to blur for Vader and Sabé alike , the latter reveal a painful new clue to the Dark Lord . The reply they both attempt lie on Naboo — not just because of the tape measure recover by Sabé from Padmé ’s Coruscanti apartment that led to Vader to Vendaxa in the first place , but lying in rest with the fall Queen herself .

Image: Raffaele Ienco, Neeraj Menon, and Joe Caramagna

The mistakes of the past, almost repeated.Image: Raffaele Ienco, Neeraj Menon, and Joe Caramagna (Marvel Comics)

Through the newspaper publisher ’s oeuvre with Darth Vader as a character , it is perhaps Marvel more than any other current originative force in the galaxy far , far by — the journey ofa sure Togrutanotwithstanding — that has done the enceinte line of more deeply enmeshing the original Star Wars trilogy with the prequel saga . So far , that ’s principally been about the way this universe slipped from one era to another , but it ’s also been about attempting to patch up the duality of Darth Vader , and the diminish Jedi Knight lie marred beneath his terrific cybernetic surface .

In this latest serial , it ’s doing so again — but in a way that is inevitably decease to get much messier and more emotionally complex than either Vader or his new friend could perhaps have ever prognosticate .

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Image: Raffaele Ienco, Neeraj Menon, and Joe Caramagna