Star Wars The Rise of a Hero Hardcover – May 30, 2017

All I needed to see were the names Louise, Walt and Palmer. Say no more, take my money please.It is mix of young novel plus comic. The artwork is very vivid and the book is bound very nicely. I grew up reading the Star Wars comics from Marvel and really loving the stretch of time Simonson and Palmer worked on the series. Louise writing this is the cherry on top. It makes a nice keepsake and now begs the question of whether i could ever get it autographed, lol.

A very simplistic retelling of Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope told entirely around Luke Skywalker's actions in the movie, Star Wars: The Rise of a Hero is an extremely quick read and one that I think most adult readers will probably skip, only because it is so simplistic. However, for early readers who are fans of Star Wars, I think this would be perfect. Since the story is not bogged down by all the myriad details of the movie and is written in such a way as to make everything easy to understand, and is only told from one character's perspective, beginning/early readers should find this volume extremely accessible. And while from an adult reader's POV, I found the story a little too streamlined and the art a little too basic (I know Walt Simonson's art is generally very straightforward and linear, this is even more pronounced here and not up to his usual levels of detail, IMO), I know I'm not the target audience and know for the right reader, this will be a perfect reading experience.

It's both a comic book and a story book rolled into one. Highly recommended pick this book up if you can if you have a kid that has not seen any of the Star Wars movies yet

The comic is hardcover and fairly thin. The story is a retelling of the original A New Hope for the 40th anniversary. Nothing new, but a nice collector's item.

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