By most people's standards, he's the next big thing in comic book writing.  Not mine, however.

Hickman!  Kirkman!  Mignola!  Matsui!  Gillen (x2)!  Tsubaki!  All of these creators and more can be found on my list.

Gillen and Larroca's epic about Vader's fall and rise is the best "Star Wars" comic to come out of Marvel and a must-read for all franchise fans.

Gillen and Larroca's epic about Vader's fall and rise is the best "Star Wars" comic to come out of Marvel and a must-read for all franchise fans.

A deeply uneven thematic crossover where the one series I was prepared to ignore offered up the best story.

A deeply uneven thematic crossover where the one series I was prepared to ignore offered up the best story.

My initial thoughts were that it was terrible.  Now I'm giving it a second try with the "Anthology" and first "Colossal Edition."

In light of our recent election I really had no choice but to revisit Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson's eerily prescient and essential series.