Star Wars: Princess Leia #2 is available to purchase and read from Marvel Comics as today, March 18th, is the release date. I am very satisfied with the direction this story is going after reading this the previous issue. Like I said in the review of the previous issue, Star Wars: Princess Leia is all about the “girl power.”
The titular Princess Leia proves to readers that she is not a pushover.
It feels as if the comic is setting Leia’s relationship with Evaan to be similar to the relationship shared by Han Solo and Luke Skywalker. The adventure continues as Leia and Evaan plot a course to the planet Naboo, where Emperor Palpatine is originally from.
This is an obvious danger zone, but this is the planet that contains a small enclave of Alderaanians.
What did I think about Star Wars: Princess Leia #2?
I liked the plot, but I felt that there was some level of predictability.
I will stress that I enjoyed reading Star Wars: Princess Leia #2 even though the issue starts off on a cliched note. The relationship between Leia and Evaan is what makes the story interesting, where Leia reminisces her childhood over a meal that involved a strange blue vegetable called “ruica.”
The food in Star Wars always boggled me because it looked very alien, which is subjective. I always wondered what the food in Star Wars would look like if a place actually served it.
But to make a long story short, this reminded me of when Luke Skywalker and Han Solo arrived at Mos Eisley to reclaim the Milennium Falcon. I thought that the infiltration into Naboo was reminiscent of that, but it also made me think of the beginning scene of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
The meeting with Lord Junn reminded me of when Solo reunited with Lando, who was coerced by Darth Vader. I wasn’t surprised that Lord Junn sold Princess Leia out, but I was more surprised that Leia didn’t waste him.
I guess that this is one of the differences between Leia Organa and Han Solo.
Leia surprised me by showing her hand-to-hand combat ability. I never had Leia pegged for a combatant even though she went through the training at a young age, but I was surprised to see Leia portrayed as a scrapper.
Picturing Leia as a proficient street fighter caught me off guard. I would expect Han Solo to be a scrapper, but no Princess Leia. Everything that I thought Leia was ended up being shattered in a few fight scenes.
That woman can hold her own in a hand-to-hand fight.
S—t ultimately hits the fan when Leia and Evaan are successful in rescuing the enclave of Alderaanians, but that’s not the reason. The Galactic Empire is secretly keeping tabs on Princess Leia through Tula, Madame Pareech’s sister, who is revealed to be a soldier for the Empire.
At least Leia’s journey is getting interesting.
