Greg Rucka

I was surprised how this story stayed with me for days; a powerful combination of graphics and minimal text. Contains 2 stories. The first was actually too gory for my preference. The second made me feel very sympathetic to Carrie.[return]The US Marshall assigned to Antarctica would really like to get back to green landscapes, but her knowledge of surviving in the polar conditions makes her valuable where she is assigned.[return]The first story deals with murder, the second with the theft of illegal Russian nuclear missiles.[return]I did notice, however, that the artist often portrayed characters outdoors without a hat, maybe with unzipped coats. I guess the different characters would be more indistinguishable in proper cold weather gear.… (more)

A really fun book, and I'm curious to see how it will effect my next watching of TFA. I didn't learn too much about Finn or Rey that I didn't already suspect, but the stories definitely fleshed out the characters without overburdening them. I enjoyed the Poe story the most and, just based on the writing, my guess is that Rucka did too. It jives so well with the Marvel Poe comic, and I love the character more the more I see/read of him. The Poe-Leia dynamic is especially interesting to me, and I do hope we as readers/fans get more of it somewhere.… (more)