Wow, this was truly terrible. Like, I don't even care about these books' setting not making any sense — it's all basically glorified fan fiction at this point, because none of these events could have logically happened between films IV and V. Fuck all that. The worst thing about Screaming Citadel is that it's just painfully dumb. It's an attempt to mash up Star Wars with Alien and Marvel's symbiotes. And that's the whole idea — Aphra shows up and tells Luke she can hook him up with a Jedi master...

Started strong but ended a little silly. The story starts with Dr. Aphra, now with the rebels, propositioning Luke to help her. Aphra has an ancient crystal that has the essence of an old jedi in it but she cannot unlock it. Luke needs a Jedi to train him so Aphra makes a deal to go to the screaming citadel to make a deal. I like the premise and I like Aphra and I love the evil droids BT and triple 0. I thought the story had a fun idea and actually has a small tie with Lukes training so I was hy...

I really like Star Wars horror, it’s a problem

A bit different for a Star Wars comic omnibus, but still fun.

(4,1 of 5 for nice, dramatic and action-filled, bit horror-ish SW story)Yeah, the story is great, it is fun, it contains "murderous robots", both famous SW Indiana Joneses - Han and Aphra, mysterious castle with powerful Queen, high stakes and so on. Great action grim fairytale from space. Beautiful.What's not so beautiful is art. I meat first you get Checchetto with colours from Mossa and it looks fabulous. It's plastic, with great depths and vivid colours. In the end, you also got Broccardo, w...

Screamin’ goooood! I bought some of the comic book issues of this storyline, but I wasn’t able to get the ones from “Doctor Aphra” title. I’ve chosen this TPB edition to make a better overall review. The story is set after the events of “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” but before the events of “Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back”. This TPB edition contains from the titles of “Star Wars: Screaming Citadel” #1 (one-shot), “Star Wars” #31-32 and “Star Wars: Doctor Aphra” #7-8 in its new Marvel Canon

Luke Skywalker is still trying to find a way to become a Jedi, and rogue archaeologist Doctor Aprhra has a crystal containing the essence of an ancient Jedi Master. Aphra has a plan to see a mysterious queen who receives visitors only once a year and will grant a favor to unique life forms. Since Luke is crazy strong with the Force, Aphra believes he’ll catch the queen’s eye, and she will help them unlock the crystal. Despite Aprhra’s previous employment with Darth Vader and their less than frie...

This is a crossover event between the main comic Star Wars and Doctor Aphra. In this one, Doctor Aphra and Luke team up to visit a planet where a queen only sees people once a year. Doctor Aphra is in possession of a Jedi crystal that is non functional. The queen might be able to make it functional where Luke can learn from it and it will be more valuable to Doctor Aphra.This universe will delve into different genres at times and this is a horror genre collection. I was all for it. How can I not...

Crossing over two of the new lines results in an enjoyable story, but once again it is undermined by the knowledge of the original films and how these new storylines should have affected them.

Vote: 3,5 Loved the first half of this Star Wars/Aphra crossover, it was like reading a gothic vampire horror story in the "sword & bolter" Star Wars universe. The "villain archeologist/jedi farmer boy" team-up was just great, I'm in love with Triple-Zero and BT-1 and I'm starting to like a lot Doc Aphra too, covers/artwork by Larroca/Checchetto were awesome except for some silly photorealistic visage seeming just out from a movie frame...... sadly Aphra series' second cheesy half of the cros

This felt a bit like Star Wars doing Abbott & Costello meet Dracula. It's ostensibly a creepy horror story, but it's filled with banter (especially between Aphra and Luke, who make for a fun pairing), a fair bit of action, and some over-the-top villainy that manages to pull all the major characters in (yes, even Sana, whose interactions with Aphra are second only to Luke's). The plot is pretty silly; Aphra is using Luke to get a strange Queen to unlock a Jedi relic, but is of course double and t...

I've greatly enjoyed the various Marvel Star Wars series, but Star Wars: Yoda's Secret War left me a little unsatisfied.  I'm very happy to say that the next installment--Screaming Citadel--righted the course and returned the series to its high standard.Of course, this volume is not just comprised of the Star Wars series.  It also has issues from Doctor Aphra.  Obviously, the two comics crossed over with each other to deliver this story as  whole.Doctor Aphra has an ancient crystal supposedly ho...

So…this was a thing.Star Wars: Volume 5’s Yoda-centric story ended up being my first real disappointment in Jason Aaron’s Star Wars run, so I had a ton of hope pinned to “The Screaming Citadel.” The fact that I ADORED the first crossover Star Wars event that Marvel did last year, “Vader Down,” and that this was being written by the same writers of said event, Aaron and Kieron Gillen-the latter of whom’s “Doctor Aphra” series I have seriously been digging-had me really psyched to see what this wo...

Star Wars attempts a horror story... and mostly succeeds. Dr. Aphra talks Luke into meeting a strange queen who knows how to activate a Jedi artifact Aphra recovered in her last arc. Soon there's lots of running from possessed monsters in a Gothic castle. It's different for Star Wars and sometimes a bit goofy but I liked it. I also enjoyed the character studies of Luke and Aphra.

Hard to reconcile the events of this book within the broader Star Wars cannon. Stories with such magnitude as this comic book crossover of which the plot centers around a sentient Jedi stored in a mysterious artifact in the possession of popular comic-born character Doctor Aphra whose intention (on the surface) is to free this Jedi to aide Luke’s training (remember this is set in between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, so Luke’s still coming to terms with the whole Jedi thing) should’ve been...

Another story with horror themes in the Star Wars universe to satiate my thirst for star-wars-with-a-scare in the month of October. Aka, the time of year I like to call "the month of horror". While I started with the legends novel Red Harvest (review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...), I now give you a complete 180 degree turn with a canon comic book. I didn't know what to think before readign this book. On the one hand, seeing Luke and Dr Aphra crossing over was an exciting prospec...

This is one of the weaker story of the New Star Wars Graphic Novel series. It was interesting, but what is up with Leia flirting like that with Han. That did not happen. She gave him nothing but a hard time until after Empire. Hans looks weird in this too. It is interesting seeing a vulnerable Luke and his missteps as he's trying to learn the ways of the force. The main villain in this one was pretty silly. I don't know, it made for weirdness, some good and some not. I guess they are trying to m...

Luke Skywalker and Dr. Arpha decide to go to a strange meeting in a place called the "Screaming Citadel". Obviously (the name didn't give an hint as to trouble?) there is trouble and Han, along with Leia, must go to the rescue. Luke, proving a very poor representative of the Jedi, struggles to defeat some characters a 14 year old Padawan could have dispatched. I won't spoil any more of the story.It's a good enough story, the artwork is uniformly good. Luke? He is underwhelming as ever. It really...

"C'mon, are you out, farm boy? Or are you in, Jedi Knight?"Oh I loved this one.I think it took around Rebel Jail or that last Vader comic for me to finally warm up to Doctor Aphra. It just takes me a while to like a non-movie or TV show character. But I think the stuff with Sana and the gradual and very clever interpretation of her into the comics finally won me over.Luke and Aphra teaming up was honestly quite a thing - I really liked the dynamics of their relationships. I think that line that

I'm not entirely sure who at the LucasFilm Story Group signed off on this nightmare, but this is hands down the worst piece of EU lore since the Disney acquisition. It is disparate from the overall direction of the unified canon to such a degree that makes it laughable, absurd, and a clear wrinkle in what has otherwise been rather smooth storytelling fabric.Mr. Gillen continues to press his hamfisted and discordant agenda, commandeering Luke, Leia, and Han and filtering them through the lens he'...