The new series of starwars continues its walk. Beilert Valance is the guardian of a young girl, and that makes him the target of the most dangerous bounty hunters, his own people.
Bounty hunters expand the Star Wars universe with each saga, and in this arc, it is time to meet two iconic characters who had not had opportunities to show off in the new canon: Zuckuss and 4 Lom. The pair of warriors from Gand demonstrate all their hunting skills in this new arc of the series starring the cyborg Beilert Valance.
Valance has promised to protect Cadeliah, but it may be a much more dangerous business than expected. The contract on his head is so high that the same bounty hunters who share a guild with Beilert risk breaking the rules to go after him. Two of the best known have decided that their organization is worth retaliation for, and so 4 Lom and Zuckuss join the hunt for the two fugitives. The only refuge, a planet where Valance promised to forget, his planet, the planet of the woman he loves.
Ethan Sacks opens the second Bounty Hunter arc with two of the least used but most iconic: Zuckuss and 4 Lom. The modified protocol droid and the Gandian seeker make a deadly pair, and they prove it by hunting Valance non-stop. With his prescient ability Zuckuss is a formidable foe, and the mechanical body’s tenacity and toughness make 4 Lom a constant threat.
Sacks takes advantage of the hunt to recover characters from Beilert’s past and resume relationships that have been altered by time and by what the former imperial soldier did. Those mistakes that have haunted him for years are now reproaches and regrets. The “hopefully“, the “If I had done something else” they appear in Valance’s mind, and that hinders his abilities, it can cost him his life. The writer continues to build the character’s present bit by bit, each clue giving it depth and changing Beilert’s future.
Paolo Villanelli It gives the series a lot of dynamics, the fights and the physical actions have a speed of their own that consumes the pages. With a fast stroke and with a brush for a weapon, the cartoonist focuses on developing the story without getting lost in details. There is not much depth at various times, and the expressiveness is always excessive, which is not a virtue in itself, but in Star Wars it fits a lot, everything is bigger than it should, always.
Bounty Hunter is a series that does not affect the general panorama of the galaxy created by George Lucas, and therefore it is much easier to build non-war elements into it. It expands the worldbuilding and leaves us with a dynamic and fast-paced series that meets the franchise’s maxim, adventure.