Star Wars: Legacy vol. 10 — Extremes

This volume collects the last four issues of the ongoing series, but as with “Incredible Hercules” there will be a follow-up mini-series to give proper closure to the story.  That said, “Extremes” does an excellent job of cramming a lot of action into its pages.  We start off with the evacuation of the planet Dac by Admiral Gar Stazi and continue to the fallout from the botched kidnapping of Emperor Roan Fel and the efforts of his knights to rescue his daughter.  This is while Cade Skywalker closes in on Vul Isen, the Sith scientist behind the biological genocide taking place on Dac and gets a wake-up-call regarding his ultimate fate.  Skulking along in the background is Darth Krayt (his return shouldn’t be a spoiler — he’s on the cover to the new mini-series) as he explores the new Dark Side powers gained from his resurrection and reveals his plans to bring the galaxy under his control.

In lesser hands, trying to cover this many plots as well as give face time to a cast of over a dozen characters would’ve resulted in an unreadable mess.  However, in the hands of John Ostrander and Jan Duursema (writer and artist, separately; co-plotters together) it comes off as an exciting sci-fi adventure that feels surprisingly well-paced.  Yes, there are a few times where their highly compressed approach fails them, in one instance we learn about the fate of Imperial Knight Draco’s former master only to find out that it’s not true on the next page, but it works more often than not.  This isn’t great art, or something you’ll see on any “top ten lists” this year but it’s another example of why “Legacy,” and Ostrander/Duursema’s “Star Wars” work in general, is worth your time.