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Me and Salva were actually trying to make it like Star Wars on paper. We know what feels like Star Wars, so it’s so much the job. Kieron Gillen: While Star Wars, of course, isn’t. You have stuff like Squirrel Girl in the same world as the Punisher. It’s got many, many genres in it, and some of them are tonally different. So, a superhero universe like the Marvel universe, it’s a polyglot universe.

Kieron Gillen: Oh, it’s so much about tone. How did those moments prepare you for the Darth Vader series, and how do you compare writing about superheroes versus telling stories set in the Star Wars universe? : Throughout your career as a writer, you have created original stories for many iconic characters. So it’s like a weirdly cyclical thing, and it’s very primal. I’ve always said, it’s like it’s very weird of me doing Vader, 'cause of course, it’s between New Hope and Empire, so as I’m basically writing the prequels to my own entry into pop culture. It’s like I said, you know, I was born in ’75, so he’s just there, looming, magnificent. And I think if you grew up in a certain generation (I was born in the early '70s), he’s just kind of imprinted in your mind. He’s like one of the iconic pop cultural villains of the 20 th century. So that’s where I shoot with Darth Vader there. So, for me and Jason, and I’m sure a lot of Star Wars writers, are on an age where Star Wars was absolutely formulate. It’s my kind of formative view into what evil looks like. It’s my entry into public life and geek culture. Darth Vader was literally the entry point of me into fantasy and science fiction. You know, that was the first movie I remember being taken to the cinema to see. Kieron Gillen: I mean, I always say this when I talk about Darth Vader - the very first movie I ever saw in the cinema was Empire. : Describe your relationship with the character of Darth Vader before you learned you were going to write an ongoing series.

With the final installment, issue #25, hitting next Wednesday, October 12, spoke with Darth Vader writer Kieron Gillen about the legacy of Vader, making him a starring character, and how he got us to root for a Sith Lord. The first issue was published in February of 2015, and the title has since left an indelible mark on the Star Wars saga. With that kind of legacy comes an incredible amount of expectation, and Marvel's Darth Vader ongoing series continually delivered. In advance of next week's series finale issue, talks to writer Kieron Gillen about Marvel's saga-changing comic.ĭarth Vader is such an icon, not just for film, but for culture in general.

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