With Vader’s tinkering, making improvements, I’m also guessing that’s why we probably won’t see another seriously damaged Vader suit. OVERALL THOUGHTS: I’m guessing Vader’s suit was torn to shreds the first few issues was because the droids that made it didn’t do a good job. The Inquisitors are another tool of the Sith master, used to hunt and destroy the remaining Jedi. Vader does, and is then sent to stop an intruder at the Jedi temple! Turns out this intruder was a set up by Palpatine. SUMMARY: Darth Vader is in the Med Bay, soaking a bacta tank, when Palpatine tells him he needs to modify his suit to his own liking. Something is off with the design of the Emperor.

Only issue I have with he issue, the set. I’m excited to see where this comic takes us with Vader. Would have been really cool to see the some of the stuff that happened here, on the big screen. OVERALL THOUGHTS: Pretty cool first issue. That means, he must hunt down a Jedi, kill them, and take the saber for himself. He is set on the task of finding a lightsaber. Vader learns his place with the Emperor rather quickly.

He destroys the room with the force, even shoving and holding (with force grip) Darth Sidious. After hearing the devastating news of Padmè, Vader lashes out on rage. SUMMARY: We start in the med bag where Vader rises from the operating table beside newly crowned Emperor Palpatine.

The story kicks off immediately after Revenge of the Sith. Marvel’s Darth Vader Dark Lord of the Sith: Imperial Machine Vol. If this is true, it could maybe put him to about 35 or 40%, but even with that I'm not confident he's 'more machine than man' in a literal sense.DARTH VADER: IMPERIAL MACHINE COMIC BOOK REVIEW (This screenshot is while the Emperor is shocking him at the conclusion of Return of the Jedi.) It's supported by his difficulties breathing and speaking without his suit. There's also reasonable sounding evidence that Vader's spine was partially or completely artificial: Let's assume he lost ~75% of each of those limbs (he may have lost more during the surgery, but it's clear that Star Wars medical technology is more advanced than ours), so a conservative estimate for the amount of his body that was replaced by machine is: 2*(leg & foot) + 2*(1/2)*thigh + 2*(forearm & hand) + 2*(1/2)*upper arm Left arm, above the elbow, cut off by Obi-Wan:īoth legs, above the knees, cut off by Obi-Wan:ĭata on relative volumes of limbs is hard to come by, but I'll assume that all body parts are roughly the same density and use this data for body part weight percentages. Right arm, above the elbow, cut off by Dooku: We can calculate, roughly, how much of his body was replaced by machine.

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