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Star Wars/The Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi (Special)

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The SW Trilogy is one of the best comics I've ever laid my eyes on. The comics are very good , packed together in a handsome box. No Star Wars fan should miss it!

When I bought this a couple of years ago, I thought I would be getting something really special. I mean, come on...how could I not? Dark Horse...Star Wars....the Special Edition. I was rather disappointed to see that, although A New Hope's comic book adaptation in this boxed set was, indeed, all new, it read like a Cliff's Notes of Episode IV. Whereas my complaint with Marvel's original comic adaptation was something art-work related (some of it was crude in spots), at least it included the movie's entire story. The art in this new version is by far better, but plot-wise, the editorial content is poor. If one of Marvel's discrepancies in its Star Wars adaptation was the inclusion of deleted scenes, Dark Horse's A New Hope commits a worse sin: entire scenes are missing!

The other two Episodes...The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi....they have the Dark Horse Comics logo and new cover art, but aside from a quick makeover of Yoda in Episode V (the original version done in 1980 had a Yoda that looked like a preliminary sketch rather than the Frank Oz version we saw in the film), these are just re-issues of the Marvel movie tie-ins. Believe me, the prequel comic adaptations by Henry Gilroy are superior....

The book was excellent. It was very exciting!

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