If you are a true Star Wars follower and have read everything that is out there about Star Wars..you will enjoyed this comic version. Very well done.

Star Wars Legacy tells the story of what happens 125 years after the fall of Palpatine's Empire. The struggle of the light side of the force against the dark side of the force has just begun. In this era, the Jedi are again hunted, and the Sith have risen again. This time, the new leader of the Sith, Darth Krayt, has abandoned the rule of two. This spells big trouble for the Jedi, as the number of Sith skyrockets. Another interesting twist to the story is that the Empire has been reformed. While the Empire allied with the Sith to destroy the Jedi, the Sith later turn on the Empire in order to take it over. In this strange twist, the Empire sides with the heroes of the story. The Empire as good guys? This is getting interesting. This is a very compelling story, and I'm looking forward to continuing the series. I recommend this to Star Wars fans who are interested in the Expanded Universe.

I recently purchased this from my local comic book shop. Reading other people's reviews I was a bit down. Thankfully to me at least the story is entretaining, the characters are likeable and the new Star Wars Universe seems to be in for a new overneeded overhaul.

The story says that the galaxy is back in the empire's hand. What it fails to mention and you as a reader learn, is that the new emperor is completly different from Old Emperor Palpatine. I won't spoil it much, but if you think this story is interesting, give it a try. You might enjoy it.

I was pleasantly surprised when I read this book. Despite introducing all new star wars characters I think that the storyline is appealing and innovative in certain way. I also appreciate that the sith dogma of there only being a master and an apprentice is not kept in legacy. This allows there to have more lightsaber fights between jedi and sith lords which are illustrated in great detail. Anybody who is a star wars fan will probably enjoy this book

This is a great new story about Star Wars. It'll re-insert you in the events that happened in the comic universe, without any difficulty.

Really cool story!

This Star Wars story takes place 125 years after the empire fell. Then a evil sith lord name Darth Krytt comes and tries to kill off the jedi. So you meet Cade Skywalker a descendant of Luke. He neglects his powers and becomes a bounty hunter. These other 2 jedis looking for him. The art is great and the story it is great.

The story: Rehashed, but interesting anyway. Who hasn't kicked back 80 times in front of the TV to see the same old Star Wars? So, being fed the same predictable storylines isn't a huge issue to someone who likes the universe. However, the army of Maul lookalikes is simply stupid and demeans one of my favorite characters.

The art: Horrifying. Every man is an over-muscled lunk-head and every woman is a sleazy hug-bosomed cleavage-sporter. For the bimbo sidekick, I could understand, but the diplomats? I suppose the galaxy relaxed its standards of propriety in the 130 or so years after Yavin.

Note to the artist: You obviously have a great deal of skill in rendering figures, but the sterotypes are trite, stale, and in this case, extremely sleazy. True artists always carry on about how they want to distinguish their art, but sadly some of the better ones fall into the rut of 1) Using the stylized idealistic stereotypes because they are too lazy to use what is truly out there, and 2) Relying on the computer technology to make up for weaknesses in the technical work. It is all starting to look the same. You have the skill - don't get academic and lazy.

I have been interested in Legacy since I first heard the news but I wasn't able to follow the comic on a basis, therefore this compilation put me on the line and show me great surprises along !! Also, often comics get you hanging and are filled with ads, but graphic novels shows you more on a single sit and NO AD to get your attention away !!

The future of the galaxy we fans love is quite wonderful and definitely the Skywalker legacy is alive !! I'm looking forward for the next release and this graphic novel is much recommended !!

Over a century after Return of the Jedi, The New Republic is no more. The Jedi Knights are hunted by what appears to be a new Sith empire, and the Galactic Alliance has been decimated by war. The heroes of old that might have made things right are long dead, and the Jedi need an ally - have they found it in the massive Imperial Remnant that was also betrayed by the Sith? Or will these two previous enemies be unable to solve their differences, destroying each-other in the process...

"Broken" is dark, and seems to be inspired more by _The Empire Strikes Back_ than any of the other movies. The main characters may be fighting each-other, but the most important battles are taking place INSIDE of them (one former Jedi must try to overcome his perceived failures or fall into oblivion; a Sith battles the teachings of his order in the hopes of gaining more power). While many familiar aspects do exist in the series (Imperial Stormtroopers, lightsabers, Jedi, etc...), they work to support the new story ideas rather than dominate them.

Star Wars: Legacy Volume 1 collects the six issues from the series' "Broken" story arc (issues #1-3 and 5-7) and puts them into a single paperback volume. For those looking for an entry point into this aspect of the Star Wars universe, this is the graphic novel to buy.

This is a really fantastic book! It's like all of the factions and rules in the star wars canon were mixed up in a salad, and then reassembled. You will definitely be surprised at how things have ended up. The line between good and evil is blurred. This allows Ostrander and Duursema to create some very interesting flaws in character development. Also, the Rule of Two is broken in this era which allow the creative team to come up with some very varied Sith!

Anyone who is a fan of Knights of the Old Republic (games) will really enjoy this book.

loved this book, highly recommend it to anyone who loves star wars and likes to take a look beyond the movies.

One of the best Star Wars comics to come along in years. Recaptures the spirit of the original trilogy very successfully without rehashing the plotline and proves that the series doesn't really need the movie characters to tell stories well (hear that, Del Rey?). Some of what makes it so fun is the way it stirs up the combinations of the archetypes the reader is already familiar with such as Imperial, Rebel, smuggler, Jedi, Sith and puts them together in all-new permutations.

"After the death of Emperor Palpatine, the defeated Imperial forces pulled back to Bastion, near the Unknown Regions, and called a truce with the New Republic. The Jedi, under Luke Skywalker, again became agents of peace across the galaxy

That peace was shattered by an invasion of fanatical extra-galactic aliens called the Yuuzhan Vong. These "Far Outsiders" killed trillions and devastated entire worlds, taking Coruscant itself and fracturing the New Republic. A Galactic Alliance of remaining systems, Jedi, and the Imperial Remnant finally defeated the invaders, exiling them to the living planet Zonoma Sekot.

Meanwhile, a new breed of Sith, a legion of them led by Darth Krayt, kept patient watch. Emerging from hiding on the planet Korriban, the Sith formed an alliance with the newly reforged Empire. Together they manufactured an incident that sundered the Galactic Alliance and began a brutal war. The Jedi alone remained to defy the Sith and now they are few.

However, the name SKYWALKER still burns among them--a legacy of hope in a galaxy of darkness . . . "

"Star Wars Legacy" is a comic-book series beginning 125 years after the events of Return of the Jedi. Cade Skywalker is a Jedi in training, but the elite order of peacekeepers is once again beset by dark forces -- a resurgence of the Sith on one side, no longer restricted only to two, and a growing new Empire on the other.

After Cade sees his father slain in a Sith attack, he foresakes the Jedi and, as he grows older, becomes an aggressive and highly successful bounty hunter. But it's hard to ignore your destiny, particularly when your most famous ancestor has learned how to return from beyond and dispense advice as a glowing spirit.

"Broken," the first volume in the new series, has plenty of action and has built the framework for an interesting storyline. It hasn't grabbed me yet, but I hope to see it develop into something exciting.

by Tom Knapp, Rambles.(n e t) editor

Excellent book, great art. It would be nice if Amazon would care more about the condition of the books, this was a little damaged.

This is a great new series that continues the SW story nearly a century after the events to the movies. The new characters find themselves in a very strange hookups and conflicts. I just can't wait for the next book.

Dark Horse always does a great job when it goes off and does its own thing, and Legacy is no exception. Great, new concept characters. And a Skywalker/Solo who isn't a carbon copy/composite of the Heroes of Yavin. Great stroyline, vibrant images, and an excellent all-around idea.

These are the kinds of things the books should be doing (the Mando stuff by Traviss being the notable excpetion). Getting SW back on track and making a much better galaxy.

Great job, Dark Horse, keep doing your own characters and eras, they're way better than slaving yourself to the books.

The "Legacy" series begins 125 years after Luke Skywalker defeated the Emperor at Endor. At first the plot may sound familiar--the Empire is back, the Sith are back and the Jedi Order is again under siege---but there are plenty of interesting twists that make the story seem fresh.

"Broken" is an apt title for the first installment in the series as it presents broken alliances, broken government, broken friendships and the emotional brokenness of Cade Skywalker.

John Ostrander and Jan Duursema have created a complex and compelling protagonist for their series. Cade may be a Skywalker, but he's a scruffy-looking scoundrel in the best Han Solo tradition. Having forsaken his Jedi heritage, he's an amoral bounty hunter who is not averse to turning Jedi over to the Sith---provided the price is right.

The script is well written and the artwork is lovely, conveying a wonderful range of character emotion. Don't care much for the cover art though---it makes Cade and his crew look like teenagers desperately trying to be cool.

I had been anticipating this much-hyped series for several months and it really did deliver. I look forward to the next volume.

Where have you seen this before?

The Sith hold the reigns of empire, the Jedi have been massacred and the few survivors are in hiding, and the only hope for peace in the galaxy lies with a young blond-haired lad named Skywalker.

From Dark Horse's veteran Star Wars creative team comes Legacy, a new series set approximately 135 years following the Battle of Endor. For the contemporary reader just coming in off Revenge of the Sith, the story picks up with right where Revenge ended, a century later, with the bad guys ascendant and the good guys on the lam. Luke Skywalker's republic has crumbled, and his descendant (perhaps grandson or great grandson) doesn't appear able or willing to ride to the rescue. The new Star Wars anti-hero, Cade Skywalker is a surly, drug-addicted bounty hunter with only the smallest scrap of concern for anything but himself.

For fans of Republic, Dark Horse's long-running series featuring writer John Ostrander and artist Jan Duursema's Quinlan Vos, Legacy will feel in many ways familiar. The plot is deliciously complex, motivations are conflicted, and the scripting is tight, with very few wasted words. Page layout and composition helps move the reader through the story, there are more than a few hyperkinetic splash panels of Jedi/Sith lightsaber duels, and the coloring is suitably dark and menacing. It's unfortunate, though, that Ostrander has Cade Skywalker teamed up with two bounty hunters (one male, one female), just as he had two opportunistic ne'er-do-wells (one male, one female) riding shotgun with Vos, and that Duursema has drawn one of them to look suspiciously like Quinlan. (See the attached image, Quin or Syn?, and judge for yourself.)

While cannibalizing elements from the films and from their own work, Ostrander and Duursema manage to make this series stand out from another comic book hatchet job by cleverly rearranging some of the traditional elements and by adding a few of their own. This time around the Sith have usurped the authority of the Imperial Remnant, but in failing to eliminate the Emperor leave behind an embittered enemy, one who forges an alliance with the Jedi. Now the red-robed Imperial Royal Guard are the force-using, lightsaber-wielding Imperial Knights, a unisex outfit clad in shiny red armor (at least one of whom, for unexplained reasons, speaks in pseudo Old English: "I am Ganner Krieg, Knight of the Empire. You have ... struck down she I have sworn my life to protect!"; "The Jedi are more skilled than we...."). Doing away with the Rule of Two, Ostrander has populated the Legacy universe with a cadre of Sith acolytes and assassins. They are ruled over by the mysterious Krayt, a hulking humanoid covered in bio armor, armor from New Jedi Order villains the Yuuzhan Vong, armor that may have kept Krayt alive for a century or more, armor that is slowly and painfully consuming him. Like Palpatine and other Sith Lords before him, Krayt seeks the means to thwart biological inevitability, a search that will lead him to Cade Skywalker.

While hardly original in overall conception, the attention to detail in both the story and the art makes this a book worth checking out.

Broken reprints issues #'s1,2,3,5,6,7 of the monthly Legacy comic magazine. Issue #4 was a one-off story that does not fit into the continuity of Broken and is likely to be reprinted in book form at a later date.

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Where have you seen this before?

The Sith hold the reigns of empire, the Jedi have been massacred and the few survivors are in hiding, and the only hope for peace in the galaxy lies with a young blond-haired lad named Skywalker.

From Dark Horse's veteran Star Wars creative team comes Legacy, a new series set approximately 135 years following the Battle of Endor. For the contemporary reader just coming in off Revenge of the Sith, the story picks up with right where Revenge ended, a century later, with the bad guys ascendant and the good guys on the lam. Luke Skywalker's republic has crumbled, and his descendent (perhaps grandson or great grandson) doesn't appear able or willing to ride to the rescue. The new Star Wars anti-hero, Cade Skywalker is a surly, drug-addicted bounty hunter with only the smallest scrap of concern for anything but himself.

For fans of Republic, Dark Horse's long-running series featuring writer John Ostrander and artist Jan Duursema's Quinlan Vos, Legacy will feel in many ways familiar. The plot is deliciously complex, motivations are conflicted, and the scripting is tight, with very few wasted words. Page layout and composition helps move the reader through the story, there are more than a few hyperkinetic splash panels of Jedi/Sith lightsaber duels, and the coloring is suitably dark and menacing. It's unfortunate, though, that Ostrander has Cade Skywalker teamed up with two bounty hunters, just as he had two opportunistic ne'er-do-wells riding shotgun with Vos, and that Duursema has drawn one of them to look exactly like Quinlan.

While cannibalizing elements from the films and from their own work, Ostrander and Duursema manage to make this series stand out from another comic book hatchet job by cleverly rearranging some of the traditional elements and by adding a few of their own. This time around the Sith have usurped the authority of the Imperial Remnant, but in failing to eliminate the Emperor leave behind an embittered enemy, one who forges an alliance with the Jedi. Now the red-robed Imperial Royal Guard are the force-using, lightsaber-wielding Imperial Knights, a unisex outfit clad in shiny red armor (at least one of whom, for unexplained reasons, speaks in pseudo Old English: "I am Ganner Krieg, Knight of the Empire. You have ... struck down she I have sworn my life to protect!"; "The Jedi are more skilled than we...."). Doing away with the Rule of Two, Ostrander has populated the Legacy universe with a cadre of Sith acolytes and assassins. They are ruled over by the mysterious Krayt, a hulking humanoid covered in bio armor, armor from New Jedi Order villains the Yuuzhan Vong, armor that may have kept Krayt alive for a century or more, armor that is slowly and painfully consuming him. Like Palpatine and other Sith Lords before him, Krayt seeks the means to thwart biological inevitability, a search that will lead him to Cade Skywalker.

While hardly original in overall conception, the attention to detail in both the story and the art makes this a book worth checking out.

Broken reprints issues #'s1,2,3,5,6,7 of the monthly Legacy comic magazine. Issue #4 was a one-off story that does not fit into the continuity of Broken and is likely to be reprinted in book form at a later date.

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Where have you seen this before?

The Sith hold the reigns of empire, the Jedi have been massacred and the few survivors are in hiding, and the only hope for peace in the galaxy lies with a young blond-haired lad named Skywalker.

From Dark Horse's veteran Star Wars creative team comes Legacy, a new series set 100 years following the Battle of Endor. For the contemporary reader just coming in off Revenge of the Sith, the story picks up with right where Revenge ended, a century later, with the bad guys ascendant and the good guys on the lam. Luke Skywalker's republic has crumbled, and his grandson doesn't appear able or willing to ride to the rescue. The new Star Wars anti-hero, Cade Skywalker is a surly, drug-addicted bounty hunter with only the smallest scrap of concern for anything but himself.

For fans of Republic, Dark Horse's long-running series featuring writer Jon Ostrander and artist Jan Duursema's Quinlan Vos, Legacy will feel in many ways familiar. The plot is deliciously complex, motivations are conflicted, and the scripting is tight, with very few wasted words. Page layout and composition helps move the reader through the story, there are more than a few hyperkinetic splash panels of Jedi/Sith lightsaber duels, and the coloring is suitably dark and menacing. It's unfortunate, though, that Ostrander has Cade Skywalker teamed up with two bounty hunters, just as he had two of them riding shotgun with Vos, and that Duursema has drawn one of them to look exactly like Quinlan.

While cannibalizing elements from the films and from their own work, Ostrander and Duursema manage to make this series stand out from another comic book hatchet job by cleverly rearranging some of the traditional elements and by adding a few of their own. This time around the Sith have usurped the authority of the Imperial Remnant, but in failing to eliminate the Emperor leave behind an embittered enemy, one who forges an alliance with Jedi. Now the red-robed Imperial Royal Guard are the force-using, lightsaber-wielding Imperial Knights, a unisex outfit clad in shiny red armor (who for unexplained reasons speak in pseudo Old English). Doing away with the Rule of Two, Ostrander has populating the Legacy universe with a cadre of Sith acolytes and assassins. They are ruled over by the mysterious Krayt, a hulking humanoid covered in bio-armor (left by the New Jedi Order villains, the Vong), armor that has kept him alive since Luke Skywalker was a boy, armor that is slowly dieing - and threatening to take Krayt with it.

While hardly original in overall conception, the attention to detail in both the story and the art makes this a book worth checking out.

Broken reprints issues #'s1,2,3,5,6,7 of the monthly Legacy comic magazine. Issue #4 was a one-off story that does not fit into the continuity of Broken and is likely to be reprinted in book form at a later date.