Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Issue #4 is good fun. It covers the movie from when Rey finds Luke and Anakin Skywalker's old lightsaber on Takodana to when Rey is captured by Kylo Ren. The highlight is Rey's vision when she touches the lightsaber, which includes images of Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda. I've only seen the movie twice, but I don't remember them being in the vision, so it was kinda' cool. I also liked the expression on General Hux's face when the weapon is fired.
I don't particularly like the weapon. It's too much like the Death Stars in Episode IV and Episode VI. I also don't like how firing it once takes out four or five different planets. Shouldn't they have to take the planets out one by one, after charging the weapon and re-positioning it? I guess that would've been too time consuming in the movie; it probably wouldn't have worked. Then why not just take out one planet?
Issue #4 was a quick read, like five or ten minutes. I generally spend a good portion of my free cash on comics so that I don't have to read things twice, but this is one I think I'll have another go at. I don't think that the movie, The Force Awakens, is very re-watchable, but somehow, the comic is; it's a good adaptation, and I might go through the entire five- or six-issue series some time in the future. I do like this series quite a bit, and it was the first title I read this week despite there being a number of other titles I like. Chuck Wendig gets points for readability. That's why I read another one of his titles, Hyperion.
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