gffa: Age of Resistance - Kylo Ren #1 | by Tom Taylor & Leonard KirkI recognize that I

gffa:Age of Resistance - Kylo Ren #1 | by Tom Taylor & Leonard KirkI recognize that I am a huge Anakin Skywalker fan, so anyone trying to write an issue where someone is deliberately paralleled to Vader and written to “win” a competition with him, it’s going to have a hell of an uphill battle with me.  That dude was the Chosen One of the Force and LITERALLY A FORCE BABY, like, you’re going to have to work out Out Extra that guy.In that vein, that Kylo is competing with a dead man who had no idea he was even in a competition, it sort of works for me.  That Kylo is defining himself so much through Vader, trying to “succeed” where Vader “failed”, that it’s sort of an echo of how Anakin used to try to define himself through other people, it sort of works for me.  That Kylo can do something that gets Rutherford there to say, “You won.” doesn’t really mean much when it’s in the service of echoing someone who he’s probably never spoken a word to, who has never gotten through to him.  That that’s the real heart of this story for me, that Kylo is trying to impress someone who wouldn’t want it, by doing the same things he did, only turning up the dial to eleventy, as if that would let him “win” the approval he’s really seeking.None of this means anything, not to Anakin, not to Snoke, not to Leia, not to Luke, not to anyone that Ben Solo is so spun around over.  But he’s throwing himself into this one-sided “competition” because he’s so desperate to define himself with it, since (for whatever reason) he doesn’t seem to really know who he is otherwise.But where this issue falls flat for me is that all I could think was–Kylo won?  He out Extra’d Darth Vader?  Really??Because, hey, Rutherford, I have actually read Vader’s comics and I remember this shit:You can maybe argue that a Zillo Beast (which, honestly, should be impervious to lightsabering like that because IT’S SKIN IS STILL IMPERVIOUS TO A LIGHTSABER EVEN IF YOU’RE TRYING TO CUT IT FROM THE OTHER SIDE, like, sure, fuck up its internal organs and kill it, but I call bullshit that you could cut your way out of it all the way) is even more dangerous, but that GIANT FUCKING DINOSAUR SHARK THAT HAD LASER BREATH was attacked in the EXACT SAME WAY.  The giant squid on Mon Cala was tamed with just the power of Vader’s Level 500 Evil Psychic Powers.Don’t try to pretend that Kylo Ren is that much more extra than Vader, that the idea that Vader wouldn’t ram himself down a monster’s throat and cut it apart from the inside?  That Vader wouldn’t dare do something so reckless?  That he wouldn’t go that far?Nah, that’s bullshit.  I’ve seen him do it.WITH A GIANT CREATURE THAT WAS LITERALLY BREATHING LASERS AT HIM WHILE HE DID IT.So, instead, I’m taking this comic as Kylo’s desperate need to be told that he’s the best (but, sorry, I gotta be honest, Anakin’s desperate need to be told he’s the best still outranks yours, Ben, he’s still #1 at having a praise kink a mile wide) and Rutherford knows that, to survive with these evil psychic space wizards, you gotta tell them what they want to hear.Yeah, Kylo Ren is pretty damned extra and he killed a Zillo Beast, that’s pretty impressive.But I’m still not buying that this is anywhere close to “winning” that competition with Vader. -- source link

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