20230504 HAIKUPRAJNA - Star Wars: Darth Vader (2015) [Comic Book Review]

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Underestimate \\ an independent vessel, \\ forcing its order.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Star Wars: Darth Vader (2015) [Comic Book Review]

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Hello readers,

Happy Star Wars Day! I had read Kieron Gillen’s 2015 Darth Vader run while it first released and I often reread its 25 issues, spaced between its four books and one crossover event; Vader, Shadows and Secrets, Vader Down, The Shu-Torun War, End of Games.

These stories were part of the new Disney canon and featured a Starkiller like story with behind-the-Empire’s back adventures, introducing Doctor Aphra as a twist on the hidden apprentice trope, along with the titular Sith earning his title as Lord Vader while dealing with the Empire’s disrespect until then, when they all get their comeuppance. 

Vader’s one of my favourite characters, and Gillen wrote him well with Mustafar flashbacks when disabled, fighting his PTSD rather than “the light” fighting against “the dark”. Vader is broken and he was trying to live with his actions instead of wiping them away. On my most recent read throughs, I kept visualizing Hayden Christensen behind the mask, like in the Obi Wan Kenobi series.

Vader is a straight up murderer, though; any who sides with the Empire is tyrannical and in the company of backstabbers who will both reward and punish insubordination.

Highlights of the series include cyborg clones, Vader being independent of Palpatine’s Empire, other Imperials like the monocle guy believing in the Empire more than the Emperor, thinking Vader was better for the Galaxy than Palpatine, and Vader using the Force and sheer plot armour to make statistical impossibilities possible.

Both as Anakin and Vader, he wanted to establish order and he believed in his faith to overcome any hindrance. This pitted science versus the Force as the ruling power behind the Empire, which was interesting because it showed how the Galaxy at large thought the Force was a fairytale, while acting as an example for Vader's manifestation-like Force usage, his stronger willpower and his being more attuned to one's structure--to what one believes in.

Thank you for reading,

Until next time!

Allen W. McLean 

PS. April 23rd was the fourth annual HaikuPrajna Day, celebrating my haiku journey; submit to the #HaikuPrajnaChallenge, a monthly poetry prompt, to participate in the occasion! [ https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/2023/04/20230423-haikuprajna-challenge-001.html ]

PPS.  Happy #freecomicbookday2023! Here's our haul, thanks to Mom and Dad coming along #fcbd #FreeComicBookDay #comics #marvel #disney #nintendo #spiderman #venom #AnimalCrossing #kirby #avengers #xmen 

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Wings soar overhead.\ While looking into their past,\ chills fill their being.

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Closer inspection,\ inner similarities\ revealed from hiding.

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20210511 - Near The Edge Of The Water

Shadows on a lake,\ taking on appearances.\ Observe what appears.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Near The Edge Of The Water

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20210506 - Destination Traversal

They had found insight.\ Somewhere else along the way,\ the snow-capped mountains.

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These poems are based on "Spear-thrower", the story I wrote for "NaNoWriMo" which I had based on the "Inktober" prompts from 2020. The story and poems will be featured as a future edition of The HaikuPrajna Collection. The first draft can be read through the link at the top of the page.

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20210505 - Numerous Leaves

Disoriented.\ Take time to regain bearings,\ the next direction.

#HAIKUPRAJNA - Numerous Leaves

These poems are based on "Spear-thrower", the story I wrote for "NaNoWriMo" which I had based on the "Inktober" prompts from 2020. The story and poems will be featured as a future edition of The HaikuPrajna Collection. The first draft can be read through the link at the top of the page.

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20210501

Loss becomes lessons,\ leaving beautiful places,\ departures lessened.

Transformed Memories

We have been coping with a loss in the family this week. Finding it difficult to write something new that encapsulates something that, for me, is cemented in the past, also to write an online eulogy as a way to pay respect to those memories. I enjoy thinking about the memories, so capturing them through some form of art and\or sharing them with loved ones is how I am dealing with this incredible difficulty. 

Here's a part from "Spearthrower", the rough draft of "Fishing for Caribou";

Barb said, “We grieve because of the loss of an opportunity to exchange information, but the change is natural, and our grief transforms into a lesson that lessens our suffering. My father lives on, as we speak, through our mourning of him. He has changed and has not simply disappeared. While I mourn for what I have lost, I have learned where it can be found. Therefore, my loss has changed, too, into something more alike to departing from a beautiful place than the permanent loss of a material object.”

Otherwise at a loss for words.

Thank you. I love you. Always and forever will be part of me, like the rest of my loved ones.

Allen and April.