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As Darth Vader Is Cancelled, Is This The End Of Kieron Gillen's Time At Marvel?

Published Fri, 13 May 2016 09:02:33 -0500

Last updated Fri, 13 May 2016 09:06:51 -0500

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I blame Sandman. The first ongoing comic book owned by a publisher that was both a) a sales success and b) cancelled at its height because the creators said the story was at an end, rather than being passed onto another writer.

And now Darth Vader is being cancelled as of issue 25 with a double sized episode from Marvel Comics.

It has all built up to this! Vader's trials against Cylo's creations! His machinations against the Emperor! His covert missions with Doctor Aphra and her murderous droids! All comes to fruition in an oversized 40-page issue by the stellar team of Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca! You won't want to miss this ending!

56 PGS./Rated T …$5.99

IGN was given the word by Marvel PR who arranged an interview with writer Kieron Gillen. In which he talks about the decision to end the book.

it was a situation where, you know, we've always said all the way through, from Darth Vader #1, that this was a story with a beginning, a middle and an end. And we kind of looked where we were after Vader Down, and we realized we were probably actually nearer to the end than we thought we were. And it was a situation where we were like, "Okay, it's better to actually end this story in a way which we think is the most effective. We don't want to pad it out extraneously." That was the kind of thing, we were like, "Oh yeah, this is the end of this particular story," in which case it's a natural place for Vader to move on.

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And my own favourite tease,

Beetee and Triple-Zero have done very well. They've kind of been the necessary comic relief at the side of the book as well as occasionally just being really, really frightening. That's kind of expanded, like the new issue, #20, has a backup story of them off doing their own thing, which is a particularly dark version of Droids, the old '80s comic and TV show.

Gillen writes The Wicked + The Divine at Image, and Mercury Heat, Modded and Uber at Bleeding Cool's owner Avatar Press. His other announced Image project, The Ludocrats, is still a way off. But don't expect him to be diving back into Marvel Comics territory for long runs any time soon… he has other plans.

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