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Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (2020) (Single Issues)
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (2020-2024) #14
“REPEAT OFFENDERS” DOCTOR APHRA and SANA STARROS are imprisoned by a POWERFUL ENEMY! If they want to escape, they’ll have to work together with former foes JUST LUCKY and ARIOLE... And venture deeper into the heart of a CRIMSON DAWN FLAGSHIP!
23 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 8, 2021
About the author
Alyssa Wong
368 books418 followersAlyssa Wong studies fiction in Raleigh, NC, and really, really likes crows. She was a finalist for the 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her story, “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers,” won the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Pushcart Prize, the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. Her work has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, and Tor.com, among others.
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September 21, 2021
This is so frustrating. Alyssa Wong is finally writing some really good Aphra stories, she’s finally got a real grip on the character…and then it’s illustrated like this.
Look, Sabbatini’s art isn’t bad, it’s just not…Star Wars? It’s heavily manga influenced, very low in detail and very light on backgrounds. Which are all perfectly valid choices, stylistically. I just don’t think they really work here. And, Rachelle Rosenberg, who’s a consistently excellent colourist, really doesn’t quite know what to do with it. The Star Wars line, as a whole, has established a certain “house style” so to speak, and this kind of cartoony style doesn’t really fit. I feel mean saying this, and maybe this tyle could be executed brilliantly in a Star Wars comic…but it’s just not here.
Regular series artist Minkyu Jung returns next month, so hopefully this is just a temporary blip.
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Look, Sabbatini’s art isn’t bad, it’s just not…Star Wars? It’s heavily manga influenced, very low in detail and very light on backgrounds. Which are all perfectly valid choices, stylistically. I just don’t think they really work here. And, Rachelle Rosenberg, who’s a consistently excellent colourist, really doesn’t quite know what to do with it. The Star Wars line, as a whole, has established a certain “house style” so to speak, and this kind of cartoony style doesn’t really fit. I feel mean saying this, and maybe this tyle could be executed brilliantly in a Star Wars comic…but it’s just not here.
Regular series artist Minkyu Jung returns next month, so hopefully this is just a temporary blip.
Get early access to all my reviews and read them a week before everyone else over on my Patreon!
September 8, 2021
”No one ’let’s’ Aphra do anything. It’s like trying to stop a hurricane.”
This was one of the best issues of this series so far! I loved seeing Aphra and Sana be forced to work with Just Lucky and Ariole. Aphra and Sana were already delightfully chaotic, but when you add the chaos and fun of Lucky and Ariole? Incredible. Showstopping. Spectacular. I love this quartet a lot. Doctor Aphra is definitely, in my opinion at least, the strongest and most constant in its quality from all the series involved in this crossover story.
Also, has there ever been a Star Wars comic or a book or a story in general with four openly LGBT+ lead characters? I don't think so. Doctor Aphra is such a breath of fresh air because it is a story led by queer characters and characters of colour, and also because it is allowed to be a bit more ridiculous, wild, chaotic and humorous. It is also not as tied to the films and the characters we know from the films as most of the other series are, which means it is more unpredictable. We know nothing can happen to Leia or Luke, but we don't know the futures of Aphra, Sana, Lucky and Ariole, which makes their story and all the dangers they face more high-stakes.
I have to also gush a little bit about the art in this issue! It was stunning, and I loved how expressive the characters were, and how funny and energetic the drawing felt. So good!
I can't wait to see what will happen next!
This was one of the best issues of this series so far! I loved seeing Aphra and Sana be forced to work with Just Lucky and Ariole. Aphra and Sana were already delightfully chaotic, but when you add the chaos and fun of Lucky and Ariole? Incredible. Showstopping. Spectacular. I love this quartet a lot. Doctor Aphra is definitely, in my opinion at least, the strongest and most constant in its quality from all the series involved in this crossover story.
Also, has there ever been a Star Wars comic or a book or a story in general with four openly LGBT+ lead characters? I don't think so. Doctor Aphra is such a breath of fresh air because it is a story led by queer characters and characters of colour, and also because it is allowed to be a bit more ridiculous, wild, chaotic and humorous. It is also not as tied to the films and the characters we know from the films as most of the other series are, which means it is more unpredictable. We know nothing can happen to Leia or Luke, but we don't know the futures of Aphra, Sana, Lucky and Ariole, which makes their story and all the dangers they face more high-stakes.
I have to also gush a little bit about the art in this issue! It was stunning, and I loved how expressive the characters were, and how funny and energetic the drawing felt. So good!
I can't wait to see what will happen next!
September 24, 2021
I still really don't care about Just Lucky, so this reunion, and all the screen time he ate up to get us to this point, feels wasted. Ah well, seeing Aphra's merciless side was something at least. Not much happening in this issue but let's hope for the best next time.
Really did not care for the drawing style, which reminded me of those old Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew graphic novel adaptations or the Marvel Runaways original series when it went all manga-esque. The action was at least fluidly depicted and easy-to-follow, with expressive faces. It all just looked rather..retro?
Really did not care for the drawing style, which reminded me of those old Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew graphic novel adaptations or the Marvel Runaways original series when it went all manga-esque. The action was at least fluidly depicted and easy-to-follow, with expressive faces. It all just looked rather..retro?
September 19, 2021
Ah so that’s why we were saddled with Just Lucky, so he could be their escape from prison!
November 14, 2021
Meh... 2/5
November 5, 2023
#14 REPEAT OFFENDERS – “It’s like trying to stop a hurricane.” – Lucky describing Aphra
March 25, 2022
The new art style kinda took me out of it.
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