Star Wars - Jedi Academy: Leviathan [Paperback]

Dario Carrasco Jr. (Author), Mark Heike (Author)

Book Description

Series: Star Wars: Jedi Academy (Ace) | Publication Date: September 12, 2000

In the eight years since the fall of the Empire, Luke Skywalker has trained a new group of Jedi Knights, among them the warrior woman Kirana Ti, the sky-hermit Streen, the scholar and lore-master Tionne, and Luke's greatest student, the brash Kyp Durron. Once trained, a Jedi must go where he is needed, to defend the New Republic and use the Force to help those in need. And on the harsh world of Corbos, help is desperately needed after mining excavations awaken something ancient, powerful -- and hideously evil!

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse; 1st edition (September 12, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569714568
• ISBN-13: 978-1569714560
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,069,186 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kevin J. Anderson has written 46 national bestsellers and has over 20 million books in print worldwide in thirty languages. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers' Choice Award. Find out more about Kevin Anderson at www.wordfire.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Is this Star Wars?, August 13, 2001

By 

Handofthrawn (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Wars - Jedi Academy: Leviathan (Paperback)

It seemed more like Alien to me. It a good 'monster'-type story, despite Anderson's horrendously forced dialogue. But it has almost no elements of Star Wars, some bordering on the line of obscenely un-Star Wars-ish. My biggest complain may be regarding Dorsk 82. The idea behind him was by no means bad, but Anderson's writing turns him into an annoying, craven fool. Sometimes I wished that Leviathan would just step on him and put the reader out of his or her misery.

The art's good, although once again, not Star Wars-ish. It worked far better in the 'Tales of the Jedi' series than in the modern SW universe.

You wants real 'Star Wars' comics, see something like the X-wing Rogue Squadron comics, especially 'In the Empire's Service' and 'Mandatory Retirement'. You want a story transplanted to the SW universe, read this. I'm grading this as a Star Wars comic, and as a Star Wars comic its just plain bad.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars As Bad As It Gets, November 2, 2002

By 

Nom de Guerre "miraxterrick" (Berkeley, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Wars - Jedi Academy: Leviathan (Paperback)

1) This is the thinnest plot I have ever seen. It's like they called Kevin J, said "Hey, we want a comic related to the Jedi Academy, but we need the whole script in five minutes" and this is what they got. Nothing is ever explained, nothing makes sense, the characters repeat themselves constantly, and the whole point seems to be to make Dorsk 82, who never really shows up again anywhere else as far as I know, feel good about himself. And I'm not even sure he does that!
2) Luke looks like He-Man on a bad day, and I originally thought Leia was some totally new character. Does Dorsk 82 have to be drawn *shaking* in every frame? Why must everyone have spit lines between his teeth? The art in this comic is rock-bottom awful.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Story, Great Art, But tell me Why the Sithing Hell Does Kyp have Blond Hair on the Cover??, May 27, 2010

By 

Forevergirl - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Star Wars - Jedi Academy: Leviathan (Paperback)

Excellent art, great story. I want to hear more about Kyp but am doubtlessly doomed to disappointment with clueless merchandisers. Fascinating character, again, LOVED the story but why in Sithing Hell is Kyp Blond on the Cover? Idiot colorist.