Star Wars: Darth Maul - Black, White & Red Treasury Edition
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Marvel has put out a lot of black, white and red treasury-sized books in the past few years, and they generally look quite stunning, especially when the artists get to do something properly outrageous.
Unsurprisingly, the Darth Maul edition has less stories than the Aliens, Spider-Man and Marvel Zombies I’ve also read lately, because they usually have nine or ten different tales, and this only had four. And there is a good reason for that – there really isn’t much to say about Darth Maul. He is slightly challenged by something, kills everybody, and moves on to his cinematic fate, and that’s about it.
But the best thing about Darth Maul was always that incredible design (well, that and the way Ray Park moved), so this might be the artistically strongest of any of these kind of books. Darth Maul doesn’t do much but scowl and murder people, but he looks really fucking cool doing it, that gloriously distinctive red face looming out of the monochromatic darkness like a beacon of death.
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