Zam Wesell (Star Wars) [Comic]

Ron Marz (Author), Ted Naifeh (Author)

Book Description

Series: Star Wars | Publication Date: April 2002

Zam Wesell is everything you'd want in a girl: beauty, intelligence, style, the ability to strip and assemble an EE-3 blaster rifle in less than six seconds She really does have it all. It's no wonder that she has caught the eye of fellow bounty hunter, Jango Fett. Jango is going to need her help in finding and destroying a powerful artifact that could prove to be very destructive if it fell into the wrong hands. Though he isn't usually this sentimental, he wants to make sure the galaxy is safe for his five-year-old son, Boba Fett. However, Zam's motivations are not so noble. She plans to sell the artifact to the highest bidder. If they can't trust each other and they've got every bounty hunter and cutthroat in the galaxy gunning for them, who can they trust?

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Florida-based writer Ron Marz began his writing career as a journalist but traded in his press badge for comic-book writing in 1990 when he determined that it was more fun to make up stories than report them. In the last eleven years, Marz has written extensively for publishers including DC, Marvel, Cross Gen, Image, Acclaim, and Dark Horse. He is notorious among fans of the DC Universe for co-creating the new Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner, who battles against the acid-blooded Aliens of sci-fi film lore in the hit cross-over graphic novel adventure, Green Lantern vs. Aliens, co-published by Dark Horse and DC Comics. Marz' other comics credits include work on Silver Surfer, Superboy, Manowar, DC vs. Marvel, and Dark Horse's Star Wars Tales and Star Wars: Darth Maul.

Product Details

• Comic: 64 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569716242
• ISBN-13: 978-1569716243
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.6 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #729,011 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Weak, October 9, 2002

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Kurt A. Johnson (North-Central Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zam Wesell (Star Wars) (Comic)

On the world of Coruscant, the Jedi council gets the alarming news that a war criminal, bent on revenge against the Republic, has gotten hold of a super weapon. On Kamino, Zam Wesell meets Jango Fett, and the two realize that they must deal with the man they helped to arm. With the Jedi on one hand, and the bounty hunters on the other, it's a race against time to save a world!

This graphic novel is a sequel to the book Jango Fett. As with that book, the artwork in this book is decidedly inferior. The Darth Maul graphic novel, which my son and I both loved, had excellent artwork, which leaves us wondering what went wrong with this book. While it has a good storyline, the book is rather slow at times. It does go a long way towards "humanizing" Fett and Wesell, which is good. However, I just couldn't ignore the decidedly inferior illustrating in this book.

Of the three books we have seen so far (Darth Maul, Jango Fett, and Zam Wesell), this book is easily the weakest. My son looked it over once, and tossed it off to the side. Overall, I would say that this book gets a 4 for story, and a 2 for artwork. My son and I give a highly guarded recommendation to this book.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I friggin love it. Need I say more?, August 24, 2010

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This review is from: Zam Wesell (Star Wars) (Comic)

It's awesome for ANYBODY who reads it! Except Trekkies. They can go jump off a cliff.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "It's just a job", March 20, 2009

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This review is from: Zam Wesell (Star Wars) (Comic)

Why does Yarael Poof go poof from the Council in Attack of the Clones? Well, here's your explanation!
A tremor in the Force may be felt in the underbelly of Coruscant. Yarael Poof volunteers to find the source of this and to eradicate the problem.
Meanwhile, Zam approaches Jango and informs him that the artifact the two fought over in the previous comic, Jango Fett, was the key to an explosive device. She convinces him to come with her to return this artifact to the rightful owners--free of charge!
I love seeing what happened to the skinny-necked Jedi, seeing the relationship between Zam and Jango (saucy and romantic), and Zam's rather human emotions (doing a job because it is right and not just for the credits). The art is amazing, the story interesting (far better than the previous, in my opinion).
Dialogue is no different from "Jango Fett". Zam Wesell shapeshifts to her human form and appears naked in front of Jango (the audience sees her modestly covering her most offensive parts). Several characters die in the book, whose deaths may involve a lot of blood.
A much better comic than its predecessor. 5 stars.

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