Name: Star Wars
ISBN: 9780785195894

Cullen Bunn

Darth Maul

Star Wars

Dimitris Papastergiou

Set in 36BBY

 "My life ends only when my rage has been vented... When my need for vengeance is satisfied. It will be a long life. And oh so cold."

This one's a nice story with great artwork! Dark and hateful, Maul goes on missions here and there for his master, the Emperor, until he learns about a captured Padawan from some crime boss, and all that hate he's got inside him for the Jedi, makes him do things his master forbids him to, just to get to that Padawan and finally kill a Jedi.

 "The Sith work in the shadows. My existence must remain secret. But there is rapture in the revelation."

 "I am denied. All those years of training, all the punishment I have borne.. I was taught to hate... and yet my loathing cannot be vented."

Ryan LaFerney

This is the first full-fledged canonical story that is set before The Phantom Menace featuring our favorite Sith in training and I wasn't disappointed. I was intrigued by the world building and the introduction of the new bounty hunter characters that Maul teams up with. The story line focuses on his desire to kill his first jedi and this desire actually cannot be quenched because death, even in the Sith, leads one feeling empty. This emptiness that Maul feels is at once despicable and understandable, as this emptiness (and the more morally grey actions of the Jedi upon his home planet) is what drives his murderous rage. I would love for Disney to actually take Maul's story here and develop it a bit further into a feature length spin-off film. I think this would be highly intriguing and successful.

Kimberly Burgess 

Love Darth maul and the Cad Bane addition was a bonus 🥰

Eva Bailey

This was a fun read, the jedi character was really cool.

Jaclyn

Very very interesting!!! Darth Maul is such a DARK and hateful character, it was pretty cool to be inside his head and watch him battle his first Jedi!

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