Star Wars Infinities
Epic Collection
2015
Star Wars Infinities is a collection of three What If? style stories based on the first three Star Wars movies - what if the Rebellion hadn't destroyed the first Death Star in A New Hope?, what if Luke Skywalker froze to death when he was lost on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back?, and what if Han Solo's friends failed to rescue him from Jaba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi?
The stories are okay, but not as good as the originals. Each one imagines Leia becoming a major Force user, two of them imagine Yoda as an improbable martial badass, and all three have the good guys winning despite setbacks that really seem like they should let the Empire prevail.
Also included is a bonus miniseries based on George Lucas's original Star Wars script. It's kind of interesting because almost all the names are there, but assigned different roles - Luke Skywalker is an aging general (drawn to look like Lucas himself) and Annakin Starkiller is his young protege, for example.
It's fortunate that this story got revised, or the movies never would have been as good. For one thing, this plot is too long and too complex, while the movies are notable for their clarity. The story combines what became A New Hope and Return of the Jedi, although with Wookies, rather than Ewoks, as the forest-dwelling allies ... which maybe explains why both films were about destroying the Death Star? Darth Vader is much more frightening in the movies than he is here, and R2-D2 is significantly better with his beeps than with actual dialogue like in the comic.
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