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For the first time in the new Star Wars canon, journey with us into the time after the end of Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi! Writer Greg Rucka (PUNISHER, WOLVERINE, Gotham Central) and artist Marco Checchetto (AVENGERS WORLD, PUNISHER) take us past the destruction of the second Death Star - and into the chaos of a Shattered Empire. It's the explosive lead-in to this winter's blockbuster big-screen Star Wars revival, and everything you need to know is right here!
COLLECTING: JOURNEY TO STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS - SHATTERED EMPIRE #1-4.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marvel Enterprises; Illustrated edition (January 1, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 80 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0785197818
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0785197812
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.2 x 10 inches

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Greg Rucka is an award-winning author of comics, novels, and screenplays, including 2020’s The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron. He is the author of some two-dozen novels, including the Atticus Kodiak series (Keeper, Finder, Smoker, Shooting at Midnight, Patriot Acts, and Walking Dead) as well as the Queen & Country series (A Gentelman’s Game, Private Wars, and The Last Run) which expands upon his Eisner-winning series of the same name, published by Oni Press.

He is the co-creator of the series Lazarus (with Michael Lark,) and Black Magick (with Nicola Scott) as well as The Old Guard stories with co-creator Leandro Fernandez. He is a multiple GLAAD, Eisner, and Harvey Award winner. His writing has included stories for both Marvel and DC, as well as penning three "middle-reader" Star Wars novellas.

Rucka was born in San Francisco and raised on the Monterey Peninsula. He earned his A.B. in English from Vassar College, and his MFA from USC. His first novel was published when he was 24, his first comic book series — Whiteout, from Oni Press — some five years later. He is married to writer Jennifer Van Meter. They have two children and one dog.

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A great, but short and ultimately a little disjointed, series.

Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2015

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I'm first going to start off by saying I am a huge fan of the old EU. I have take, a long time to warm up to the idea that with the new canon everything is ultimately pointing to nothing but focus on not letting the OT and The Empire die for 30+ years of story telling.
We've been through this before, the remnants of The Empire were a stalwart of the old EU until about 19 ABY which translates to 15 years After The Battle of Endor.
So you could understand that i'd be hesitant to have go through the same kind of stuff again for 30 years of story telling.
Maybe it won't end up that way. But I'm feeling doubtful. (Given that the new *not* Empire is the big bad and oh hey look wow they have another *not* Death Star ) That's not to say the old EU was perfect. The tiered system was flawed simply because Lucas had his own vision for a lot of things that didn't match with the post-ROTJ EU. Even though he had a hand in some things. That and the early EU years were very rough in consistency. So if anything at least this redux of Remnants of The Empire will be more consistently consistent.

That said, reading this actually got me REALLY excited. The art style (And including things from the Prequel Trilogy) is to thank for that, it's probably some of the best Western Star Wars comic art i've seen. I typically am not a fan of the art in most western comics, the old Dark Horse comics teetered on the edge most of the time in this regard. And the included chapters from Princess Leia and the original Marvel adaptation of A New Hope definitely are a lot less refined, generic and realistic.
The art in "Shattered Empire" was consistently very good considering I think they had different artists for different issues. The color schemes chosen were very appealing to me personally and the art gets more and more realistic by the 4th issue. You could tell who each individual was very quickly and easily without a doubt.

The plot and dialogue pacing are a bit strange to get used to at first. At times it's very hard to follow who was supposed to be saying what. Especially during battle scenes. The panel placement and dialogue flow are odd. But once you get the gist of what it's trying to do, it's a bit easier.

It doesn't help though that the chapters are FAR too short and jump from place to place way too much. With very little exposition and development (Aside from Shara Bey, who is wonderful BTW) until the 3rd issue starts. It feels disjointed and focused too much on action in a lot of places. Something I hope isn't the trend for Star Wars post-ROTJ in the Disney Canon.

It leaves also feeling completely unfinished, Disney and all them probably thought it would somehow spoil too much in TFA *Eye roll* or something to leave a series off in such a disjointed fashion. Something else I hope isn't a trend.
They didn't want to be beholden to the old EU and yet they are doing the same to their own canon in reverse. They are making everything beholden and 2nd class citizens to TFA. Who is to say they won't continue to do the same for years until Episode IX is out?
Look at the Aftermath Trilogy, the third book isn't slated to come out until like 2017. The year Episode VIII comes out.

"Journey to The Force Awakens" ? More like water from a fountain cut off mid stream after half a second to TFA.

Ultimately this series just leaves you wanting so much more than what little you were given.

There is an inconsistency or rather left completely unexplained thing as well *SPOILERS*, in issue 4 Luke and Shara go after the Tree that was planted at the center of the old Jedi Temple at Coruscant. It turns out there were two. But what is strange is that how the hell did Luke know of such a thing? How did he even know about the Jedi Temple on Coruscant period? Let alone the fact that The Emperor stole these and some how reduced them to tiny little trees suspended in a secret location for 20 years.

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==Pros==
[*] Great Art.
[*] Consistent Characterization of returning characters from the OT.
[*] Includes elements and locations from the PT and OT.
[*] Does a great job introducing and giving us a look at Shara Bey and Kes Dameron, Poe's parents. (Mostly Shara)
[*] Balances mixing new characters with old characters well.
[*] Action scenes are well thought out and entertaining.
[*] Does enough to get you hooked, waiting for more exposition. (That never comes)
[*]Includes chapters from the new Princess Leia series and the original Marvel adaptation of ANH. (For whatever this is worth).

==Cons==
[*]FAR too short.
[*Leans a little bit too much towards action vs exposition and development.
[*]Leaves too many things unexplained/cliffhung.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2016

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It's a 4/5 stars for the story and 7/5 stars with the art.

The colors and the art are phenomenal. Marco Checchetto with the covers for issues 2-4 and the art for the actual story is superb. He..I can't rave about him enough! He alone gets 5 stars. The overlay of images and the colors just draw the reader in.

The characters feel the pain of losses after the 2nd Death Star. Shara Bey (Green Four) and Kes Dameron (a Pathfinder-one of the strike team on Endor) share the stage with the Big Three, Chewie, and the droids.

The Imperials are still fighting back on and around Endor. I find it a bit strange that the Rebels think that after even twenty days, the Empire would "accept" the fact that Palpatine and the Death Star 2 were destroyed. Even in the GFFA, I know that's not how life works.

I knew that Shara and Kes would survive because they were on Yavin IV (I think that's the planet) with their son Poe. I also didn't realize until midway that Poe was 2 by now; I thought we had been seeing the beginning of his conception until the second issue.

The Imperials are in chaos at first, with the news of Palpatine's death. Holographic messages though lead them to believe Palpatine is still alive. That is one thing part of the plot that fell flat; this arc could have been fleshed out a lot more. I know there is only so much that can be done with comics, but it also didn't have to be a four-issue subseries.

I like that Han, Chewie, and Threepio accompany Kes to take down the Imperials while Shara is Leia's escort to Naboo. I did find it odd that the Naboo fighters are the same, though like that the Queen looks more like Jamilla than Amidala.

I love that Leia handwrites letters to families of those who have fallen.

Te fourth issue set the stage for Poe's comic, but everything again felt rushed.

After the SE series, there are the first issues of "Princess Leia" and then Marvel's 1977 "Star Wars" series.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2021

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A very gentle connection leading out of the Return of the Jedi toward Ep. 7 with truly beautiful artwork and epic moments. Would be happy to see this continued further on, I guess no chance as the whole sequel is an unorganic mess and offers very little contextual points of landing.
That separate Princess Leia piece at the end is truly awful though. 😀

Sam Cherry

Amazing artwork and plot, why is this not longer!?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 13, 2016

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Straight off the bat, this comic picks up at the exciting finale of RoTJ, with some quickly likeable new characters thrown in to the mix with the original cast! The artwork is amazing with the characters looking very close to their on screen actors / actresses (which is an instant +1 for me). Greg Rucka also really understands the characters too with some great banter and one liners between them. Its pretty action filled too! While at the times it did feel a little short, I wanted more of the fall of the empire! It still didn't fill in a lot of the gaps left between RoTJ and Force Awakens sadly. Though there should be more content on the way, hopefully anyway!

A couple of extras are thrown in which include a re-print of the Princess Leia issue 1 (full of girl power which is nice to see! Though artwork is 110% a step down from this!) and the first issue of the comic adaptation of A New Hope (which didn't interest me much since I wanted new stories). These two added a little bonus to an already neat story in place bridging a small part of the force awakens gap.

New characters, locations, weapons and storylines made it an awesome read especially since its all canon too with the main series.

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Sheyvan

Shattered Marvel: Sonderband in Scherben

Reviewed in Germany on November 28, 2015

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Der erste Sonderband, mit Handlung nach Endor, erzählt die Geschichte von Shara Bey und Kes Dameron. Beide agieren als Soldaten der Allianz und treffen auf die Hauptchrarktere der OT. Während Kes mit han Solo imperiale Basen strümt betätigt sich Shara als Pilotin für Luke und Leia. Die Geschichten sind an sich nicht relevant, wirken sie doch als loose Hinweisschilder Richtung TFA. Ihr Sohn, Poe Dameron, wird nämlich einer der 3 Protagonisten der kommenden Episode 7 seien. Zudem gibt es einen kleinen Einschub zu Palpatines posthumen Befehlen an die Überreste des Imperiums.

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Sehr irritierend finde ich die stets wechselnden Zeichner. Die nur 4 Ausgaben lange Shattered Empire Serie wurde von Marco Checchetto, Angel Unzueta und Emilio Laiso umgesetzt. Der Zeichner wechselt dabei zum Teil bei Szenenwechsel innerhalb einiger Seiten immer wieder hin und her. Checchetto macht seine Sache spitze und bringt hochwertigste Arbeit ein. Beide anderen sind deutliche stilisierter, aber trotzdem gut, Durch die Gegenüberstellung zu den Zeichnungen von Checchettto wirken sie jedoch teils arg fade.

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Der größte Kritikpunkt ist für mich das Füllmaterial zum Ende hin. Sammelbände beeinhalten normalerweise 6 der Amerikanischen Ausgaben. Die Shattered Empire Miniserie ist jedoch nur 4 Ausgaben lang. Anstatt jetzt den Band in vergünstigter und kleinerer Form herauszubringen füllt Marvel den Band mit 2 anderen, völlig abwegigen, Ausgaben auf. Dabei handelt es sich um den ersten Teil der "Princess Leia" Serie, sowie den ersten Teil der Marvel umsetzung von "A New Hope". Für Leute wie mich, die sich die kompletten Comics ohnehin kaufen, ist das dreiste Geldmacherei und fügt 2 Häppchen schwankender Qualität ein, welche zudem zeitlich und stilistisch völlig unpassend sind.

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Shattered Empire, als das erste Comic zum Post Endor Universum, hatte großartige Vorschauzeichnungen, ist dann aber doch etwas enttäschend. Die eigentliche Handlung ist nur 4 Ausgaben lang und bringt keine wirklichen Neuigkeiten. Trotzdem mit 3* und Hinweisen auf Episode 7 bedingt lohnenswert, für Sammler sowieso.

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Kevin Trebell

Fun stories but not the link I was expecting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 22, 2015

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I got this collection based on it's premise of being a collection that bridges from Jedi into The Force Awakens.

Sadly this collection isn't really that. It's a small four part story following the mop up from the end of Jedi , where the Rebels try to hunt down Imperial Remnants set on revenge. On top of that it is the first episode from the Princess Leia collection and the first episode from the new hardback collection of A New Hope.

Overall it's fun with some lovely art and some great space battles but certainly not the essential companion I'd hoped.

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Matt

A brief look at the Star Wars universe, post ROTJ

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2015

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This four-issue collection (plus two bonus unrelated issues) takes up the Star Wars story in the final moments of the Battle of Endor and continues for several weeks afterwards. We find a galaxy still very much at war; the Empire have been dealt a crushing blow but they aren't finished yet, as the Alliance seek to take advantage of their victory and wipe out the remnants of Imperial forces across a number of worlds.

The story is fairly brief but does paint an interesting picture of the war-weary rebels realising that the fight is far from won yet. I liked the art, and of course it's exciting for fans to get their first glimpse of heroes Luke, Leia, Han and Lando after the destruction of the second Death Star. However, the plot is rather piecemeal, more like a series of short missions with no overall arc, which was somewhat disappointing.

There are some teasers for the imminent new film: we get to meet the parents of pilot Poe Dameron from The Force Awakens, and in the final part Luke Skywalker goes on a mission to retrieve an item which may possibly feature in the film's plot (although it's difficult to be sure with so much secrecy surrounding the storyline).

Overall it's decent enough but the lack of a strong continuing storyline through the four parts is a let-down and makes it seem more like a series of vignettes than a connected series. Worth a look but not really essential reading. The other recent Star Wars titles from Marvel have been stronger.

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