Vader is searching for Luke in space and suddenly appears in a rebel training field. He takes on several squadrons. Luke crashes his ship into Vader's tie fighter, both ships seen crashing toward Vrogas Vas. Hence "Vader down." I'll leave it at that. You'll just have to read it. This was a blast! Literally. Some key points... Vader is probably at his most ruthless and powerful, taking on thousands of enemies, and it's fascinating to watch. I feel like this book is also the most visceral of the V...

Wow. That was...I mean, that was fantastic.I've had my issues with the last issues of Skywalker Strikes and Vader, but this one was SO GOOD.Something about the panels instantly drew me in. The way they're done, with no real frames, really helped open them up. One of my complaints about the Vader comics is that the previous ones seemed very compacted, but that worked so much better here. And the art style, oh my goodness, it was beautiful.I loved the plot of Vader shipwrecked on Vrogas Vas, with

Darth Vader is (still) the biggest badass in the galaxy. And it's so much damn fun to read.

Finally picked this up from a pile of new Star Wars comics and liked it a lot! All the expected characters are in it, and it’s all action and dry humor all the time. The return of fun to comics! Vader is down, crash-landed on the planet Vrogas. Take him out! As if the Rebels could pull that off! I liked the confrontation between Artoo and evil Artoo. That good vs. evil parallel universe same characters thing happens here, yup. It’s filled with a lot of mostly fun moments like that, actually. But...

Star Wars: Vader Down is a one book collection of Star Wars Vader Down, Star Wars (2015)#13-14 and Darth Vader #13-15.What can I say? THIS is what Star Wars is all about. Excitement, danger, adventure..it's all here! Wonderfully written by Jason Aaron and Kieron Gillen and gorgeously illustrated throughout. I had read parts of Vader Down in the Vader series, but this gave me a look into the WHOLE story. Let's start at the beginning.Darth Vader has learned that the pilot who blew up the Death Sta...

My oldest daughter has been on me about reading more of this Star Wars series from Marvel (she is waaaay ahead of me) and so I decided to pick up where I left off, with Vader Down. And you know what? Its pretty great. We get all the characters that we know and love, some new characters that are pretty fun, space battles, lightsaber battles, and Darth Freaking Vader pulling a ship out of the sky with the force. What more could you ask for in a Star Wars story?Some people say that the fact that yo...

While tracking Luke Skywalker, the mysterious Rebel pilot who destroyed the Death Star, Darth Vader encounters a fleet of X-Wings. After an intense dogfight, Vader crash-lands onto the desolate planet Vrogas Vas. It’s a prime opportunity for the Rebels as they swarm to the planet’s surface: Vader is down and he’s all alone - now’s their chance to kill the Empire’s most feared enforcer! But they’re about to learn that he’s not trapped in there with them, they’re trapped in here with him…Vader Dow...

Maybe it's the taint of the cross-over 'event' but I didn't enjoy Vader Down quite as much as Marvel's previous Star Wars comics (just talking about the new ones here; not the ones from the '70s and '80s).It was OK; action packed and amusing in places, it certainly felt like Star Wars. It just felt a little disjointed to me in places. Perhaps it was the multiple writers. Perhaps it was the addition of Mike Deodato as an artist (I've never been a fan, I'm afraid).Whatever it was, it wasn't enough...

Vote: 4,5The Vader/Star Wars crossover was just best volume of the new comics series from Marvel/Disney for me: Aaron and Gillen (who already cross-wrote a storyline on a Marvel mutants crossover early) just totally nailed the essence of Star Wars and the iconic characters of the saga, Deodato/Larroca's artworks are just over the top, opening battle of Vader's Tie Fighter against 3 (!!!) X-Wing Fighters squadrons was 100% epic, 0-0-0 and BT-1 (so deliciously evil versions of C-3PO and R2-D2) at

Unlike the books which have been pretty terrible since the EU reboot, Marvel is killing it with the Star Wars Extended Universe. This is the first crossover between Marvel's ongoing Star Wars and Darth Vader titles. Darth Vader has finally learned where Luke Skywalker is and goes after him. He blunders into an X-Wing training exercise and there's a huge dogfight. Luke and Vader both crash. Vader is being hunted by the Rebels while Luke is being chased down by Dr. Aphra and her murder droids. The...

Vader Down: Battle of the Ripoffs - The Millenium Falcon gang fight Vader, evil Threepio, evil Artoo, evil Chewbacca, evil Pomeron and General Fish Grievous.How uncreative can this team be to blatantly copy such original characters from the franchise? Get a grip! The art and the story was fun tough, shame.

I was hoping that this new line of comics set in the Star Wars universe would fulfill their official Marvel crossover quota simply by a set of interconnected tales set between the two first movies. Aren’t we crossing the streams enough already? But this is Marvel which means that much like the sun rising in the east tomorrow there had to be a story going through a couple of books at some point. So if you want to follow along with this one you have to read issues of the main Star Wars title as we...

I didn’t love everything about it, but overall it was a good crossover story.

Wildly entertaining for any Star Wars fan, I'd say.

It’s all good fun, but endangering the Super Six is kind of toothless since this is set between Star Wars and Empire.

Here is a fast, fun read, featuring many of the classic Star Wars characters. It's fast paced, and some of the artwork is actually better than the plot.

Vader Down is the first major crossover of Marvel’s recent crop of Star Wars comics. It continues telling the story of the adventures of both the rebels and Darth Vader after the destruction of the first Death Star, but before the rebels settle down on Hoth. While on the trail of the young Jedi Skywalker that has joined the rebels, Vader ends up in a space fight with a rebel squadron and crash landing on the planet. Now all of our characters converge in a mad rush as the rebels take this one cha...

Darth Vader V. the Rebel Alliance! I got this storyarc on its single comic book issues but I chose to make the review using this TPB edition to make a better overall review. The story is set after the events of “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” but before the events of “Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back”. This TPB edition features “Star Wars: Vader Down” #1, “Star Wars: Darth Vader” #13-15 and “Star Wars” #13-14, in its new Marvel Canonic run.Creative Team:Writers: Jason Aaron & Kieron GillenIllu

3.5 stars “You won’t win this war, Vader. No matter how many soldiers you march into battle. No matter what dark powers you muster. You’ll never stop the rebellion. You and our beloved emperor are doomed to fail, just like you’re Death Star. And I’ll be there to see it, when you all go up in flames.” I can never say enough just how much I love these comics. But, let's just say, it's a lot. This volume was so much fun! What with the droids hell-bent on murdering anything and everything in

4.5 starsLately Marvel is publishing some of the best Star Wars comics ever. Every volume so far has had something new and cool. In this one we get to see Darth Vader battling the odds against an entire Rebel Force. (Darth is scary, that's all I'll say about that.) Also, there's an evil Artoo and Threepio. The idea of Threepio being evil was just too cool, and there's never been an Artoo unit so well armed. Add in a wookie Bounty Hunter along with a cybernetic Mon Calamari wielding four light sa...