Star Wars: Legacy Of Vader (2025-) #2 (Star Wars: The Legacy Of Vader

Star Wars: Legacy of Vader (Single Issues)

by Charles Soule, Luke Ross (artist), Derrick Chew (cover_art)

A RETURN TO TATOOINE! KYLO REN seeks out the home planet of his grandfather, ANAKIN SKYWALKER! The young tyrant must go up against GARDULLA THE HUTT and her guards…and a RANCOR! What secrets of the past blow in the harsh sands of MOS ESPA?

Genres: Star Wars, Comics, Science Fiction

25 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 12, 2025

About the author

Charles Soule is a #1 New York Times-bestselling novelist, comics author, screenwriter, musician, and lapsed attorney. He has written some of the most prominent stories of the last decade for Marvel, DC and Lucasfilm in addition to his own work, such as his comics Curse Words, Letter 44 and Undiscovered Country, and his original novels Light of the Jedi, The Endless Vessel, The Oracle Year and Anyone. He lives in New York.

Reviews

[Gabriel · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is a really good comic run so far. Great story and art, fun to read, well written, and Kylo is great.

[Brandon Tidwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

This run continues to be amazing, Kylos characterization is a lot different than I expected here which is refreshing but it’s also hard to get used to. It works most of the time but there are moments that seem strange.
For example, kylo being surprised about about anakin being a slave was odd you’d think Luke (or somebody) would’ve told him about anakins pre-empire days. But more so I find it strange that kylo is upset about the slaves on tatooine, and is upset that the Jedi didn’t free shmi.
He is literally the supreme leader of a massive military organization that takes actual babies, enslaves them, in order to indoctrinate and train them to be soldiers on the front lines of needless galactic conflict.
I think we’re past the hutts owning slaves at this point.
I can see how this could be a result of them trying to make sense of the major shift in Kylos characterization from TLJ to TROS, but it still feels to jarring to me. Was hoping this comic would smooth that transition out more.

[Alex Brennan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic 2nd issue

Just as good, if not better than the first issue. Enough fan pleasing story beats and visuals without it feeling like a fan fiction, nostalgia fest. Only downside is it is ultimately a mini series and already halfway through. Would love for this to be a full series.

[Thomas · Rating 1 out of 5]

Issue 2 of Legacy of Vader is the most Charles Soule piece of writing ever and there is nothing that interests me less. Built on cameos and desperate to interconnect everything, with so much more exposition than actual dialogue, it isn't even really a Kylo Ren story anymore: it's a step by step exposition of Darth Vader's past.

I was hoping this series would be about Kylo consolidating his control over the First Order, telling the story of what we didn't get to see in The Rise of Skywalker. But no. Instead, Soule induges in his worst writing instincts. At no moment is that clearer than in his choice of clothes for Kylo. While I will admit that I actually like making Kylo look like Han with the jacket echoing his father rather than the cloak and tunic reminiscient of his grandfather, it's definitely a Soule Easter Egg, as the style was adopted by Kylo when he first joined the Knights of Ren in The Rise of Kylo Ren (also written by Soule). Going step by step through every moment of Darth Vader's past, including his victory at the podrace, who every single one of his owners were, who his mother was, is all setup to get to the point where the stuff of Soule's wildest interconnected dreams are made of: connecting Kylo Ren, via his quest into Darth Vader's past, to Gardulla the Hutt.

I cannot begin to describe how uninteresting I find this storyline. I have zero interest in finding out more about Anakin's time as Gardulla's slave, but you can just feel how much Soule wanted to write the words: 'The Toydarian was not Anakin's only master.' Unfortunately for him, this is a backstory that doesn't interest me at all, not even if I weren't hung up on the unseen story of Kylo as Supreme Leader. But Soule's biggest, biggest failing as a writer is his pathological need to explain things, even something as random as the Gardulla reference from The Phantom Menace.

If this is what the rest of Legacy of Vader is going to be, I'm done with it. And since Issue 5 has Kylo going to Naboo...

[Marcus · Rating 4 out of 5]

A stronger issue than the first issue. Kylo and his newfound acquaintance go to Tatooine where Kylo learns of his grandfather’s life as a slave and the connection the planet has to the skywalker lineage.

It was really cool to see Kylo’s reactions to what he learns here, as well as the parallels to how anakin and he grew up and how that shaped them as men. The ending teasing more of the same to come and I’m all for it. Luke Ross’s art remains really good.

[Joshua Mifsud · Rating 3 out of 5]

Marvel Star Wars needs to stop using Tatooine as a crutch for actual story telling. Every single series involving Vader since 2015 has revisited Tatooine using dozens of flashback scenes in place of new story and progression. The only great panel in the whole issue was Kylo's memories with his family, Chewwy, Lando etc. because we've still not gotten to see any of his childhood. Intrigued by Vaniee and the other new force user but not much else.

[C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Look. I don’t know if it is doing this journey to the past WELL. The dude from Mustafar feels a little like a convenient plot device, but this is my particular form of catnip and I continue to be here for it.

[Myles Gerber · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good issue. Love the new grimblo.

[Cashie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a lot better than I thought it would be. The graphics are lovely, and we get to see a little more of what Kylo actually does without compromising his dark side.

[Cannon Qorson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, but I do hope this series builds to a resolution thats more then just Kylo fighting legacy characters.

[Sabine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kylo messes with the Hutts 😁
And the childhood memories of little Ben 🥺

[Wm · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 1/2 stars

[Steven Shinder · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like that this didn't take the easy route when talking about Watto's fate. I prefer to think Vader never went to Tatooine prior to A New Hope. Gardulla is pretty smart after what happened to Jabba.

[Min Green · Rating 5 out of 5]

First of all:“My prince”
Second of all: “These hands? These hands are weapons”

And the ending? I was shook

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75

[Kristi West · Rating 4 out of 5]

"I would guess that from your earliest days. you too walked in a path of pain." Then Kylo proceeds to have flashbacks of really good times with his family.

[Max · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kylo is so emo

[Geovana Oliveira · Rating 4 out of 5]

pois tome bem na sua cara Kylo Ren