Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Old Republic, Vol. 4 by Rob Chestney

Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Old Republic, Vol. 4 Reviews

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  DiscoSpacePanther

  What a let down! After the real magnificent innings of the Old Republic comics volumes 1, 2 and 3 where the stories knocked it for six more often than not, volume 4 sees the wickets fall on pretty much every delivery.
  
  We’ve moved beyond the timeframe of the Zayne Carrick era, beyond Knights of the Old Republic the videogame RPG, and its sequel The Sith Lords and into the territory of the MMORPG The Old Republic. I’ve not played this last game, so a lot of the setup for these tales is lost on me, and the disjointed way the stories are told just led to me being baffled as to who all the characters were, and why their plotting was so convoluted.
  
  Additionally, there is a certain degree of villainy inflation that gets a mite tedious. So there is some Darth or other who has built a fleet of superweapons. Ho hum—we’ve already seen this ad nauseam. This was tired and worn as a Star Wars cliché could be (which makes the reuse of these clichés once twice again in JJ Abrams’ recent Disney “Star Wars” movies all the more frustrating and disappointing), especially as the gimmick is essentially the same as the Star Forge from KotOR 1.
  
  The best story in this volume is the Lost Tribe of the Sith arc, which at least bothers to introduce the characters and give them almost-plausible motivations. The artwork is pretty nice, too. It quickly descends into farce, though, with the release of Dreypa (didn’t I read a novelisation of this a few years ago, now I come to think of it?) These villains are too cartoonish for me to take seriously, and because the heroes are all “Sith” of some stripe, I find myself not caring at all what happens to them.
  
  Yes, this is backstory to the Fate of the Jedi novels, but since I don’t really care for them, either, that’s another lost reason for me to feel invested.
  
  The stories in this volume feel incredibly incoherent to me. But that is a weakness of having so many stories focus on the Sith. Sith fighting Sith is very one-note, as you always know that the denouement will inevitably be someone betraying someone else, but because they are Sith you just don’t care enough.
  
  This is the first of the Old Republic Epic Collections that has not made it i to my headcanon. That being said, it isn’t hateful vandalism like much of the Disney comics canon, so if heavy Sith on Sith action is your cup of tea, by all means add this to your “to read” pile.
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  Rensk3

  I've no clue why the reviews for this specific comics collection are so negative. It's a nice bundle of comics linked to the Old Republic we see in the videogame Star Wars: the Old Republic. I'm very glad they reissued them so recently, because now we no longer have to read them on a computer screen.
  
  These comics, aside from the last, are however really written for the game's players as a kind of a prologue. Therefore I can understand not everyone might enjoy these comics. Some are for sure less exciting compared to the other volumes. These comics also show how many things the developers of the game still changed after these came out before launch. Nevertheless, I do really recommend reading these comics if you're into the Old Republic era. A few of these characters are portrayed really well.
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  Jordan Anderson

  4 volumes in and we are officially at the dregs of this entire epoch of Star Wars history.
  
  By this point in the history of The Old Republic all the
  good stuff like Revan's return from the dark side and the rise of the Sith has already happened. In these comics, all that's left are lame attempts to explain the bit players in
  the Republic/Sith war and send us back to John Jackson Miller's woefully disappointing setting on the
  planet Kesh where now we are reading about Viking Siths and pterodactyl/human hybrid things. Seriously!
  
  None of the stories here feel like Star Wars or have any kind of major importance in the grand scheme of things. Skipping this long 450+ collection will save you valuable
  time to read the legitimately good stuff from this time period.
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  Trevor

  Just not as engaging or coherent as the previous 3 volumes. I wish I had trusted the reviews and skipped this one.
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  Iris

  As a big fan of the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, I'm happy that the early tie-in comics are finally available as part of a printed collection. I enjoyed the many references to events and characters from the game, but I fully admit that without that hook, the stories themselves are only OK, not amazing.
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  Nathan

  Couldn't really get into this volume.
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  J.B. Mathias

  Overall this collectiong was good some of the stories were really good, some were just ok and a couple were bad. I did not like the final story or the durge story and was never a fan of the lost tribe of the sith story. It had potential but it came off as rushed and derivative...like trying to give a history of earth in a few short stories..jumped around too much spanned too much time in too short of a story...and the original John Jackson Miller stories...you could tell Avatar had just come out when it was written...it just never felt like it belonged in Star Wars.
  
  I did enjoy the main features though the first few stories...also seemed very derivative but were at least derivative of elements of Star Wars that work and fit.
  
  Also I hate that this is a marvel collection and not a Darkhorse Omnibus but Darkhorse never got to collect these issues because of Disney buying Star Wars and granting the license to themselves at Marvel instead of keeping it with Darkhorse who was doing an amazing job with it.
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  Kyle

  I read I liked 85 percent of the comics the old republic comics was good. I really enjoyed the lost suns 5 parter. I just didn't like the spiral comics because I couldn't get into the characters and the bad guy was a joke.
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  Daniel Butcher

  Contains some of my least favorite Star Wats
  Stories I’ve ever read. The Threat to Peace storyline is like reading the Legion…who of these 80 characters did wait and why should I care?
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  liv

  Individual rankings for the comics
  Blood of the empire: 4/5
  The threat of peace: 2/5
  The Lost suns: 3/5
  Lost tribe of the sith: 1.5-2/5
  So bit of a mixed bag lol
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  Al Berry

  There are two decent 5 issue mini series with good storytelling and art, but the rest of the book is just poorly paced, bad story telling.