Darth Vader has proven to be a difficult character to portray outside of the Star Wars movies and TV series. It's tough to capture the character's best qualities when you only have words and still images to rely upon. How do you convey what the Dark Lord of the Sith is thinking and feeling without breaking that mystique? How do you show emotion in a man covered entirely in ebony armor? These challenges have often weighed down Darth Vader-focused comics and novels in the past. But as Marvel's current Star Wars: Darth Vader comic is proving, it's possible to convey a lot about the character without saying much at all.
The series, which is written by Charles Soule and drawn by Giuseppe Camuncoli, is currently unfolding in the aftermath of Revenge of the Sith, with Vader still coming to terms with everything he's lost and doing his best to extinguish any lingering traces of Anakin Skywalker. It's easy to picture the book going wrong in trying to depict a younger, less experienced Vader. Especially because this series lacks a consistent foil for Vader, unlike the previous volume by writer Kieron Gillen and artist Salvador Larroca, which introduced Star Wars fans to plucky, self-serving archaeologist Doctor Aphra. The biggest mistake the new series could have made would be for Vader to become too chatty or to bombard readers with awkward narrative captions.
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