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A review by neilrcoulter
Star Wars: Thrawn by Nolan Woodard, Jody Houser, Luke Ross, Clayton Cowles
3.0
I'm glad Thrawn gets a haircut. One point in the Empire's favor.
This is a graphic novel adaptation of a novel that I've read and mostly forgotten. Having just read the second Thrawn novel, it's nice to have this reminder of what happened in the first one (though the events in this novel have little effect on the second). The translation from novel to graphic novel isn't completely smooth, and I felt that some plot points would be very difficult to understand from the graphic novel alone.
What I'm most happy about with this book, though, is the art. Finally, a Star Wars graphic novel that looks like a classic Star Wars graphic novel! No hint of the awkward Photoshopping that often mars the current Marvel series. The look of this book reminds me a lot of the old Marvel comics, and that's a good thing. Luke Ross did an excellent job with this, and I hope he gets to do more Star Wars series.
My main question in this story is: Why do the Imperials so dislike Thrawn? We're led to believe that they're prejudiced against him because he's an alien. But Star Wars is full of aliens! And as far as alien species in Star Wars go, Thrawn—who is basically exactly like a human but with blue skin and red eyes—is hardly the strangest alien these people have seen. I don't understand where the anti-alien bias comes from. I see nothing in the prequels that hints at this future prejudice among the Imperials. Why do humans suddenly turn against non-human(oid)s? This doesn't make sense to me.
This is a graphic novel adaptation of a novel that I've read and mostly forgotten. Having just read the second Thrawn novel, it's nice to have this reminder of what happened in the first one (though the events in this novel have little effect on the second). The translation from novel to graphic novel isn't completely smooth, and I felt that some plot points would be very difficult to understand from the graphic novel alone.
What I'm most happy about with this book, though, is the art. Finally, a Star Wars graphic novel that looks like a classic Star Wars graphic novel! No hint of the awkward Photoshopping that often mars the current Marvel series. The look of this book reminds me a lot of the old Marvel comics, and that's a good thing. Luke Ross did an excellent job with this, and I hope he gets to do more Star Wars series.
My main question in this story is: Why do the Imperials so dislike Thrawn? We're led to believe that they're prejudiced against him because he's an alien. But Star Wars is full of aliens! And as far as alien species in Star Wars go, Thrawn—who is basically exactly like a human but with blue skin and red eyes—is hardly the strangest alien these people have seen. I don't understand where the anti-alien bias comes from. I see nothing in the prequels that hints at this future prejudice among the Imperials. Why do humans suddenly turn against non-human(oid)s? This doesn't make sense to me.