Eoghann Mill Irving reviewed Spiral by John Jackson Miller (Star Wars, lost tribe of the Sith)
Review of 'Spiral' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
This is an example of the Star Wars Extended Universe disappearing up it's own backside.
If your exposure to Star Wars is purely through the movies then nothing you read about here is going to be even slightly familiar. These are not Sith in any way that you would recognize them. Which could actually be an interesting angle for a story, but it's one this graphic novel totally fails to follow.
Instead we're giving a Sithier than Sith villain who makes Darth Maul seem understated. Oh an a self-labeled anarchist who wants us to call him "Death Spinner". Why? Well they never really properly explain that.
There's a lot of things that aren't properly explained actually. Despite the giant info dumps at regular intervals, the story has a way of jumping rather haphazardly forward. It's lazy. People suffer from amnesia until a convenient moment. Stuff happens without proper setup. Power …
This is an example of the Star Wars Extended Universe disappearing up it's own backside.
If your exposure to Star Wars is purely through the movies then nothing you read about here is going to be even slightly familiar. These are not Sith in any way that you would recognize them. Which could actually be an interesting angle for a story, but it's one this graphic novel totally fails to follow.
Instead we're giving a Sithier than Sith villain who makes Darth Maul seem understated. Oh an a self-labeled anarchist who wants us to call him "Death Spinner". Why? Well they never really properly explain that.
There's a lot of things that aren't properly explained actually. Despite the giant info dumps at regular intervals, the story has a way of jumping rather haphazardly forward. It's lazy. People suffer from amnesia until a convenient moment. Stuff happens without proper setup. Power levels fluctuate wildly. One minute the villain can level a town, the next he's scared off by a bunch of guards on flying animals.
The characters are one note at best. And one of the main characters seems to go through a radical off-page transformation that is... wait for it... not properly explained on the page.
To add insult to injury despite the mentions of Sith and Jedi, this doesn't even feel like a Star Wars story. It's that generic.
The art is okay. It's not terrible, it's not special. Really everything about this product is just... eh. It has no good reason to exist.
I feel like there is an interesting story to be told about this lost tribe, but it doesn't get told here.