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@ the Mothership: reviews of John Byrne's Next Men #1 and Star Wars Legacy War #1

Two reviews over at Newsarama to catch up with.  And if all works to plan this week, look for something here and at Popdose in the next couple of days.

For these reviews, click on the title to go and read the full review.

John Byrne's Next Men #1

In a move that echoes his original series, the kids wake up in a lab, finding out that everything they’ve experienced was just an induced dream. This gives Byrne the perfect chance to recap the last series in excruciating detail. In 10 pages, he gives a history lesson of the Next Men that’s not pertinent to anything else in this issue. Instead of somehow letting this information flow out naturally or even letting the reader discover for himself what’s going on, he recounts almost every event from the old series, making sure the reader knows exactly what has been missed. John Byrne has never been the subtlest writer but this sequence has to be one of the clunkiest pieces of exposition in the last 20 years.

Star Wars Legacy War #1
Ostrander and Duursema’s expand on the Lucas’s stories and themes but create a much richer universe in Cade Skywalker, Darth Krayt and the ousted Imperial government. Ostrander and Duursema have created a truer and deeper story about power and rebellion, carved out of the remains of the franchise that was left after Revenge of the Sith.