Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Issue #1 came out three weeks ago, but I'm just getting caught up on the title. I'm not a fan of the movie Rogue One, but I thought I'd give the comic adaptation a shot. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, to me, borders on fan-fiction. It's clever in the way it stitches the holes in A New Hope, but it fails to be a great movie on its own, the way even The Phantom Menace does (I know, I'm hearing boos and hisses from my audience). None of the characters of Rogue One, minus the cameos, live up to even Poe Dameron or Finn, and I wasn't a huge fan of The Force Awakens.
The cover by Phil Noto drew me in, and although I'm not familiar with the creators of the comic - minus VC's Clayton Cowles, who does the lettering - this is a good adaptation. It has the pacing and timing that the movie lacks, although I don't know if I'd have as hard a time reading the entire story as I did sitting through the entire movie. I do know that I'm going to keep reading this title.
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