Star Wars: War Of The Bounty Hunters (2021) #3 by Charles Soule
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The War of the Bounty Hunters rumbles on!
So, Darth Vader hired Boba Fett to track down Han Solo, which he did, Vader then presumably paid Fett, had Han encased in carbonite and then let Fett take Han to Jabba. On the way to Jabba’s palace, Solo was stolen from Fett by Crimson Dawn, resulting in Jabba putting out a bounty on Fett. Jabba then bids a million credits at the auction Crimson Dawn hold for Solo’s carbonite encased body, but Vader then insists that they give Han to him, because he wants to use Han to lure Luke to him. Which was the plan in the first place. But that plan didn’t, uh, go according to plan, which is why Vader needs Han back so that he can do it again. Confused? Just don’t try to think about it too much…
There’s also a fight between Vader and Qi’ra, which would be ridiculous if she wasn’t a master of Teräs Käsi, the Star Wars universe equivalent of Kung Fu. I mean, it’s still ridiculous…
This issue is definitely the weakest in this series so far. While it’s felt like the tie-ins have been, to extent, treading water while waiting for the main book to get to the auction, it now feels like the main boo is treading water for…some reason?
Hopefully the back half of this event will actually do something interesting with Qi’ra, but this just left me wondering why Chewbacca didn’t say, “Hey, Leia, you’re gonna find this funny, but the woman auctioning off Han’s carbonite encased form is his ex…the woman he was so obsessed with he left Corellia, joined the Empire, then went AWOL, all in a bid to find her again, and then when he finally found her she was working for Crimson Dawn and totally double crossed him. But I’m sure he’s told you all about her… Anyway, how wild is it that a martial art invented for a rubbish Playstation 2 game is now canon?”
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