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I've not been entirely sure about Doctor Aphra, as it's a series that's either been really enjoyable, or kind of slow. Sometimes the characters are a ton of fun and the issues are packed with neat stuff, and other times I'm left wondering why we focused on certain things as nothing seemed to happen. And this issue is a bit of both.
Aphra is stll possessed by the Spark Eternal, and whilst her body does stuff on the Crimson Dawn ship, Aphra is stuck inside her own mind. We start off getting so see some of her memories, of her fighting for her life against criminals that she's double crossed, when help arrives in the unlikely form of Miril, a Chandra-Fan who was host to the Speak centuries before.
Aphra gets taken into Miril's memories, and gets to learn more about the Ascendant and their conflict with the Sith. This gives us a great chance to learn a bit more about the history of the Star Wars universe, and means we get to see what the Sith were like before the Rule of Two in canon.
In the outside world Sana and her friends manage to track down Aphra's old droids, Triple Zero and Beetee-One, who are as delightfully murderous as they've always been. But, there's just not enough of them in this issue to really satisfy; though hopefully this will be remedied in future instalments. The final moments in the issue show the controlled Aphra producing a weapon from inside a forge, a Sith Killer sword. With the Hidden Empire story coming up soon, and Qi'ra looking to be taking on the Sith, perhaps this weapon might be playing an important part in those events.
This issue is one where I can see several good moments, but they're mixed in with some stuff that really seems to slow things down and makes events feel sluggish and kind of dull. I really want to like this character and this series, but there are times where I don't always come away from the title feeling like I've gotten much out of it; and this arc is one of them.
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