Ash Reviews

 Issue #1 of Charles Soule’s Eye of the Storm comic duology follows the Eye of the Nihil, Marchion Ro himself, information about his father and grandmother, and the relationship that he has with Mari San Tekka, a crucial part of phase one of The High Republic . Even though I’m not the biggest Marchion Ro fan out there, I really enjoyed this story more than I thought I would, so much so that I give it 4.5/5 stars. I don’t have too much to say, because I specifically don’t want to speculate too far on this duology because of my level of fear. Yes, Marchion, I am scared of you. Are you happy? The worldbuilding surrounding the Evereni is natural storytelling and simply wonderful. I don’t think I had heard of the Evereni until I read Eye of the Storm , and now I have the basic ideas of who they are as a people. It’s quite clear from the beginning how Everon is described as a stormy place, a tempest place, and how that imagery and language has bled into the structuring of the Nihil. W...

Luke Skywalker meets the best Jedi ever? Yes, please. Anyway, Yoda seeing the Force as a sea is definitely Elzar’s impact. Anyway, this is probably my favourite issue in Star Wars (2020) that doesn’t have Ellian Zahra in it. She is very special to me, and I am looking forward to her return in the next issue, but this one did blow my socks off (and yes, I was wearing socks when I first read this issue). I was not expecting Elzar Mann content in the era of the original trilogy, and I’m really not mad about it. I really really love The High Republic , and now that my favourite has appeared in a comic, maybe finally soon we’ll get official concept art… maybe not with him in his Temple Robes (which he canonically hates). Thank you, Charles Soule, for this brilliant issue, and thank you, Marco Castiello, for bringing it to life with your art. Especially for bringing Elzar to life. One of my favourite things about this issue is that it teaches Luke, and the reader, so much about the Jedi, a...

The twelfth issue of The High Republic Adventures by Daniel José Older was simply mindblowing. I wanted to hold off to review it until after I did a post- Midnight Horizon reading of it, and somehow it was even better than the first time. This issue is a solid 5/5 from start to finish. It gives us everything we could ever want. Well… those of us that have been shipping Lula and Zeen from the beginning. The way that this issue fits so well into parts of Midnight Horizon makes me even more grateful for Daniel José Older’s genius. It’s clear how much Lula and Zeen (and the other characters, of course) mean to him with the love and care that he put into their creation and that way that they’re written. The deep struggles that Lula and Zeen are going through speak so strongly to me as a Queer person. I know how it feels to think that there is something wrong with your love, so it breaks my heart in the way that I can relate to these characters even though I never want anyone to ever ex...

 I am very much enjoying Kieron Gillen’s Eternals run at the moment. I initially wanted to start reading the comics because I enjoyed the film and wanted more of the characters that I got to know and love from the film. The first arc of the comics I really enjoyed and I’m also enjoying this current arc as well with Thanos as the Prime Eternal, I think it’s a really interesting path to take. This issue was one that I enjoyed but it wasn’t my favourite. That’s fine because it still did a lot of important work for the story that is being told without really being filler. I was waiting for what happened in the end for a while now. I kept thinking ‘how are they going to react to the results of the election’ and I’m really excited for the next issue to build on that reveal. I always find myself wanting more Sersi in these comics, just because she’s my favourite character, and I think it’s interesting when one watches the film before reading the comics and sees how different the char...