Star Wars #70 Review: All Stories Eventually Converge

Star Wars continues as Han, Luke, Leia, and Chewbacca are off on their separate missions. Unsurprisingly, each begins to go awry for our Rebel heroes. 

Coming off the back of their first two issues of Star Wars, Greg Pak and Phil Noto have been on a roll with this series. The first two issues were great and this issue is more of the same for this storyline. This is another solid issue that plays up the character interactions but also moves each story forward in a positive way. These past three issues have honestly been some of the best Star Wars media since the property was revived. 

The way that this series has handled multiple stories over the past couple issues has been inspired in its simplicity. These are three separate stories told concurrently with a loose interconnection. Most comics though would take these stories and jump back and forth between them, making for odd transitions and halts in stories. Here though, and with previous issues, the stories are told in chunks with the only transitions being to another story. This works extremely well because it doesn’t change the flow of each story, nor take the reader out of the issue. Each story is told and ends with an excellent cliffhanger that leaves the reader wanting more. 

Image by Marvel Comics/Art by Phil Noto

Each individual story is really solid as well. Each story is fun in their own unique way and none of them feel similar in what they’re trying to accomplish. It’s a clever, interesting way to approach this time period of Star Wars canon and works very effectively. Each story adds new wrinkles to the characters involved and two out of three stories feel very small in scale, which is odd for Star Wars. It’s a nice change of pace and kind of what the comics should be like. Smaller stories that focus on characters rather than universe-altering plots.  

Phil Noto’s art is absolutely wonderful as well. Yet again, he simply nails the tone and world of Star Wars in a way that so many artists have never done so. He makes every world distinct from one another, much like how the worlds are portrayed on film, and adds his own flair. Somehow, he even makes our main trio look like the actors who portrayed them. This is has happened in the past with other artists who have a more realistic style. However, Noto’s art is much more stylized and yet he manages to do it, which is absolutely incredible. 

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