Jeffery Brown, the genius behind Darth Vader and Son and Vader's Little Princess, goes out on a limb and creates some new characters to the Star Wars universe. Meet Roan, a young boy from Tattooine, who has dreams of becoming a fighter pilot like his dad and brother. But when he fails to pass the entrance exam, all hope is apparently lost. That is until he gets invited into the Jedi Academy. What's a young Padawan to do when you can't even make a book rise in the air using the Force?
Interspersed with a few well known characters, like Yoda, Jedi Academy was a risk that paid off. By the end of the book, I was hoping for a sequel. I want to learn more about young Roan's time at the Academy.
The art is rough, but it's done from a child's perspective. And for once, somebody captures the Ho-hum life of the Star Wars universe.
As a former history major and teacher, I so love to learn how people lived their everyday life- not just the extraordinary stuff. It's why I like stuff like the new Teen Titans Go! series and the episodes of Doctor Who that focus on the lives of the people he has touched so freakin' much. The ordinary is as important, if not more important that the remarkable if one is to truly learn about a society and I think a lot of artists and writers neglect to take a moment and show us what is like for a hero to spend a day fighting with a slow Internet connection as opposed to tangling with a super villain.
Fantastic Stuff.
Worth Consuming.
Rating 9 out of 10 stars.
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