The Best Star Wars: High Republic Comics Aren’t Coming From Marvel

IDW’s Star Wars characters from the High Republic era greatly outshine those from Marvel, which is currently suffering from uninspired filler.

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Warning! Spoilers ahead for Star Wars: The High Republic #2

Marvel’s High Republic comic series might have introduced a deeply disturbed Jedi who is plagued by a mysterious past, but the best Star Wars comic that covers the same time period hails from IDW Publishing. Marvel’s failures can be mostly blamed on a limited roster of compelling characters and for relying too much on a monster from a High Republics novel that feels too much like filler.

What IDW offers and, coincidentally, what Marvel needs is a character like Zeen Mrala. Everything about Zeen is shrouded in mystery and unrealized potential of which Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures has barely touched the surface. What readers have witnessed already is truly remarkable, for she is able to summon the Force to stop a massive ball of flaming debris from careening into her planet, a deadly aerial object that Yoda is supposed to stop. The fact that Zeen has grown up fearing the Force and never utilizing it up until this moment makes her achievement even more incredible and awe-inspiring. Who is she? Where does she come from? Just how powerful is she?

No such character exists in Marvel’s Star Wars: High Republic. By the end of the first issue, the main character, Keeve Trennis, already achieves a great deal by ascending to Jedi Knighthood, and her main dilemma is proving she’s worthy of that coveted station. Ironically, IDW has such a character with Lula Talisola who’s the top of her class, a burden she wrestles with throughout the first two issues. And yet, Lula is only a Padawan, which forces the reader to feel more protective of her due to her purported lack of experience, creating some much-needed tension that Marvel lacks.

Ironically, Marvel casts aside its most compelling character, Trandoshan Jedi Master Sskeer, by having him fall victim to the Drengir, a mysterious race of beings that use the Dark Side to greatly influence the minds of its victims. The Drengir can control anybody, so Sskeer now becoming a pawn of the Drengir isn’t as exciting as him succumbing to rage and his inner demons, which he undoubtedly possesses. While Sskeer being controlled by the Drengir is an unfortunate development for Marvel’s Jedi heroes, this situation feels more like a detour from what truly matters, an exploration of Sskeer’s inherent failings—and there are plenty.

The best hope for Marvel is a new young child named Bartol who Keeves encounters on the same planet where the Drengir attack in Star Wars: The High Republic #3 written by Cavan Scott with art by Ario Anindito. Bartol shows great initiative and exhibits almost no fear despite apparently not possessing the ability to manipulate the Force. In fact, Bartol eclipses Keeve numerous times during their encounter; when she is paralyzed by trepidation, he literally jumps into the fray with nary a worry. Hopefully Marvel will make Bartol a central figure in its series. He possesses so much more potential that could bring the series a level of quality seen in IDW Publishing, rather than just a kid who randomly appears to help move along a rather stinted and uninspired storyline.

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