You would think that pairing Aphra and Triple-Zero in an Escape From New York-style harrowing race against time on an Imperial planet would be rife with excitement, adventure, and all the joy Aphra normally brings. And, well, most of it is there, but there's a level of introspection that weighs down much of the action, as Aphra is asked time and again to examine her personality and tendency to throw people away, and it makes it less fun to be aware of it when she does it. And it also isn't as mu...

"And yet this one moment - the one time she didn't stop to calculate and scheme - is the one time she did something heroic."Oh... oh, wow.(side note before I get into the meat of this review: Winloss and Nokk are amazing and adorable and I want to see more of them. that is all.)First off - given the ending of volume 4 of this series, my mind was pretty occupied when I finished that one. But then that thing happened with Aprha and Triple Zero and... I lost focus.You know the scene in a book or mo...

4.5🌟 I've always loved the Doctor Aphra character since Kieron Gillen introduced her in the Darth Vader run. Overall this has been a fantastic run. Volume 4 being the exception. I think Simon Spurrier dropped the ball big time with his first Doctor Aphra volume, however volume 5 offers up an entertaining non-stop thrill ride that is actually comprehensible unlike volume 4 that was an outright mess. I had fun reading this, and I think that's the point with a read like this. Triple zero (a homicid...

Worst Among Equals offers up rollicking, non-stop thrills with occasional doses of pathos and a fine patina of humor, making it perhaps the best volume in the series. Doctor Evazan's implanted proximity bombs in Aphra and Triple Zero, forcing them to remain in constant contact even though Trip would rather see Aphra (and most of humanity) dead. The pair stumble across the city-planet Milvayne, desperate to find a skilled bomb defuser, but instead finding only more and deeper trouble. It's the ki...

Maybe more of a 3.5/5, but with me and Star Wars titles I’m always happy to round up.There were three new characters introduced in this volume that I foresee being fun in more stories to come, particularly the unlikely inter-species married couple of monster hunters Vokk and Winloss but also perhaps a new Big Bad in the form of Imperial Propaganda Minister Voor- definitely the kind of shady, unscrupulous manipulator that Mr Spurrier delights in writing.

The end of this series?

This single-handedly made up for Remastered and The Catastrophe Con. Aphra and Trip have been rigged up with proximity bombs that've been rigged to explode in 10 hours or if they are more than 20 meters apart. This is a story chock-full of suspense, and the more vulnerable side of Aphra, and I loved it.

Actual rating is 3.5 stars.This is a collection that continues the story of Doctor Aphra. In this one, Doctor Aphra and Triple-Zero are linked to each other by proximity bombs. They cannot wander far from each other or they will die. They travel to a planet where they believe a scientist can remove these bombs. This planet is a model for Empire control.The action in this collection is non stop as we bring in several characters who want Aphra dead as she continues to be on the run with Triple-Zer...

"I only know one truth," Luke said. "It's time for [Doctor Aphra] to end."

I mentioned in my review for Volume 4 of “Doctor Aphra” that this was a series that seemed to read substantially better when collected in trade paperback as opposed to single issues. Volume 5, titled “Worst Among Equals,” only serves to reinforce that assertion: the breakneck pace, offbeat characters, and deliberately cheeky tone that all too often made individual issues of the series feel disjointed and weirdly obtuse, when collected like they are here, actually become distinctive qualities tha...

In volume 5 of Marvel Comic's Star Wars series Doctor Aphra, "Worst Among Equals": we are introduced to husband-and-wife monster hunters Winloss and Nokk, who---like everyone else---get to know and hate the adorable Dr. Aphra; Aphra and psycho droid Triple-Zero are still connected by bombs implanted by evil Doctor Cornelius Evazan and are stuck on planet Milvayne, deep in the heart of the Empire; Aphra's adventures with Trip are, unbeknownst to them, being transmitted across the net as a reality...

Coming fresh off the heals of the surprisingly good The Catastrophe Con, this is another comic that I picked up at the end of 2019 with Comixology's sale.With Simon Spurrier having fully taken writing duties for the Dr. Aphra comic from previous writer and original creator Kieron Gillen, The Catastrophe Con was an invigorating installment that elevated Dr. Aphra's story to the best it had been since Vol. 1: Aphra. "Worst Among Equals" not only outdoes the previous volume, it brings the Dr. Aphr...

Dr. Evazon of "I have the death sentence on twelve systems." fame inserts bombs in Aphra and Triple Zero that will explode if they get more than 20 meters apart. To make things more interesting, the bombs will explode in 10 hours. There's lots of twists, turns, and betrayals as the two of them try and make themselves across a city under Imperial control to meet a professor that can defuse the bombs. Spurrier has created a good cast of reoccurring rogues to continually go after Aphra as well. The...

Trapped on an unknown planet ruled by the iron hand of the Law and the Empire's propaganda machine, Doctor Aphra's up shit creek without a paddle. Oh, and to make matters worse, if she moves more than 20 feet away from Triple Zero, her murderous ex-protocol droid, she's going to explode. So, uh, what's up, doc?Aphra's come a long way. Alright, she's still very bad, but she's getting there. She's trying. And this volume really highlights that journey in a way that the preceding four haven't quite...

Clunky dialogue and tedious story. The *idea* of each story is fine, but the execution is lacking. Doing a version of The Defiant Ones (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_D...) is fine. It’s been reimagined time and again, forming the basis of every buddy cop movie ever, reaching its apotheosis in 48 hrs. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/48_Hrs.) But when you pair the most amoral character in Star Wars (Aphra) with the most murderously psychotic droid ever conceived (Triple Zero), one expects m...

The story was great--Spurrier was born to write this sort of conflicted anti-hero. The art was a bit of a mess--not nearly as neat and well-detailed as that by earlier contributors to this series.

Doctor Aphra is back, and once again she just keeps finding herself in worse and worse situations. It seems like no plan of hers will ever go smoothly. But it does make for an interesting read for the rest of us! Doctor Aphra Vol. 5 is titled Worst Among Equals, and it’s probably my favorite title so far. And in many ways, it fits her relationship with Triple Zero perfectly. This volume has six issues in it, but the first one is going to feel more like a one-shot at first. It does become relevan...

A different writer than the first four books but still, a really good arc. Really helps develop both Triple Zero and Aphra’s characters with a very fun framing device.

This review was originally published over at my blog, The Grimoire Reliquary, as part of my Saturday Star Wars weekly column.Previous || NextThe good Doctor is back, and running for her life with her dearest pal, the homicidal protocol droid Triple-Zero. The two frenemies are in quite the bind–as soon as they grow further than 20 metres apart, the explosives implanted in their necks will arm, and go ka-BLOOEY!Grizzly, but what’s a little blood, guts and blown-out logic matrices betwixt friends?