Star Wars Darth Vader – Shadows & Secrets

Vader Hunts the Truth About Luke

Shadows & Secrets collects the first twelve issues of Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca's 2015 Darth Vader series. After the Death Star's destruction, the Sith Lord is under the Emperor's scrutiny and quietly pursuing the pilot who humiliated the Empire at Yavin.

An Empire Within the Empire

Vader builds his own network while navigating rivals placed in his path, including the archaeologist Doctor Aphra and her homicidal droids. The run turns Imperial politics into a pressure chamber where every alliance is useful, temporary, and potentially fatal.

The Dark Side in Compact Form

The 5.5-by-8.5-inch paperback puts a major modern Vader story into Marvel's $9.99 compact line. It works especially well as a character study because Vader's search for Luke carries consequences the reader understands long before he does.