Via Starwars.com:
Marvel’s critically-acclaimed Star Wars and Darth Vader comics have worked concurrently to continue the story of A New Hope, with the former focusing on the heroes of the original trilogy, and the latter telling tales from the Sith Lord’s perspective. The two books have shared story elements throughout, and finally came together in historic fashion last month: Both featured a huge moment in which Darth Vader learns that someone named “Skywalker” destroyed the Death Star, raising questions, doubt, and anger in the Empire’s chief enforcer. Today at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel announced that the two series would come together in an even greater way with November’s Vader Down, a six-part crossover event that kicks off with the oversized Vader Down #1 and continues in each individual ongoing series. StarWars.com spoke with Star Wars writer Jason Aaron and Darth Vader writer Kieron Gillen to find out what readers can expect from the story, and came away with lots to be excited about.
1. It’s Vader unleashed. ‘Nuff said. Vader Down finds the Sith Lord stranded — with trouble on the horizon. “It’s called Vader Down and the core image is Vader against the entire Rebel army and fleet,” says Gillen. “It’s Vader with an array of people in front of him and he’s in a precarious situation. What happens then?” For fans who love this Dark Lord of the Sith, it’s a chance to see what he can really do — and how he does it — when survival is the only goal. This makes Vader Down a new kind of Darth Vader story: he’s not the hunter, he’s the hunted.
“Hopefully, you get to see Vader in a kind of situation we haven’t seen him in before,” Aaron says. “Where he is cut off and surrounded and really in a tough spot. So how does Vader react to that? He’s probably not going to run and hide. He’s Darth Vader. So whatever the threat is before him, he’s going to turn on his lightsaber and step out to meet it. But we’re throwing him up against quite a lot in this. That’s the inciting incident, and that draws in the cast of both our books, which complicates things even more. Again, it’s called Vader Down. You’re going to get to see Vader cut loose in a way beyond what either one of us has shown before.”
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