Death, Lies, and Treachery (Star Wars: Boba Fett) [Paperback]

John Wagner (Author), Cam Kennedy (Author)

Book Description

Series: Star Wars: Boba Fett (Unnumbered)

Throughout the vast reaches of the galaxy one name is always uttered in hushed tones, a name guaranteed to strike fear into the stoutest heart: Boba Fett. His prices are exorbitant, but if you're looking for revenge, or if you're looking for protection, he'll get the job done.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Is there anyone cooler than Boba Fett? Like a cross between Clint Eastwood and Chow Yun Fat--but with a jetpack and kneepad rocket dart launchers--Fett has always symbolized cool, quiet power. If Fett wants you, you're as good as got (that ridiculous incident over the Great Pit of Carkoon in Return of the Jedi notwithstanding).

So any book or comic featuring his royal Fettness had better be good. Fortunately, our boy gets his due in this quality Dark Horse collection of three previously published comics (Bounty on Bar-Kooda, When the Fat Lady Swings, and Murder Most Foul). The story, by John Wagner of Judge Dredd fame, is by no means brilliant, but it's clever enough to rise a cut above the more schlocky Star Wars spinoff fare. What really sets this collection apart, though, are the moody colors and expert composition of Cam Kennedy (Star Wars: Dark Empire). From our favorite bounty hunter nonchalantly capping some thug without even turning around to breezing through the defenses of a H'unn's criminal stronghold, Death, Lies, and Treachery is classic Fett. --Paul Hughes

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse Comics; 1ST edition (January 21, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569713111
• ISBN-13: 978-1569713112
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,346,506 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mindless drivel, May 7, 2000

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Nathan (Wilmington, DE United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death, Lies, and Treachery (Star Wars: Boba Fett) (Paperback)

This book has high points and low points, but the latter, unfortunately, far exceed the former. Which is a shame because Boba Fett has the potential to be such an interesting character and should fit right into the comic book forum. The art in this book was not horrible, but the color scheme -- the same unnatural conglomeration of greens and yellows and reds used in the Dark Empire series, is dull, ugly, and silly. The characters, especially the Hutts, are portrayed as nothing more than morons, and the action (what action?), is slow, pointless and uninteresting.

There are a few little bits of neat dialogue and interesting character insights into the galaxy's most feared bounty hunter, but, just to give you a general idea, it took me three or four tries before I could actually force myself to read this one through to the end. A part of this is because, even though this book is long, it isn't as unified a series as most of the others, and each of the three issues represented here are 48 pages, so they start seeming long and drawn out in their own right.

If you absolutely love Boba Fett, don't buy this one...it'll ruin him for you. If you, however, fancy yourself a Star Wars collector, then I guess this is a necessary addition to your bookshelf. And to end -- a chronological note. This book is officially supposed to take place after Fett's exploits in Dark Empire I & II.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars THIS is Fett???, July 27, 2007

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Tom Knapp "Rambles.NET editor" (Lancaster, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death, Lies, and Treachery (Star Wars: Boba Fett) (Paperback)

I can be pretty forgiving where Star Wars is concerned. But the Boba Fett spotlight book "Death, Lies & Treachery" is just plain awful.

The art by Cam Kennedy is ugly, with monochromatic washes on many pages that make it look like a child's paint-by-numbers book. You know the sort of thing I mean; little Timmy doesn't yet understand the correlation between numbers and colors, so he just paints the whole page green. Kennedy's work is like that.

And the story by John Wagner isn't much better. It's a trilogy of sorts, all putting Fett at the beck and call of a Hutt even more loathsome than Jabba. His primary foe (or, rather, his primary foe and his primary foe's brother) is a caricature that one can't even begin to take seriously.

by Tom Knapp, Rambles.(n e t) editor

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Funny!Witty!Interesting!, August 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Death, Lies, and Treachery (Star Wars: Boba Fett) (Paperback)

I loved this book! I purchased it by accident after putting another one down (in a physical bookstore which shall remain nameless) and was afraid I would not like it -I'm not a Fett fan- but I was pleasantly surprised! The book has a plot around the action with Fett that is extremly amusing. The other characters are victim to all sorts of crazy convolutions of fate and personal agenda, and Fett's indifference to anyone's problems but his own adds a hint of irony that makes this book positively delightful.