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COMIC REVIEW - Star Wars Agent of the Empire: Iron Eclipse
more than a little to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and I’m perfectly okay with that. Normally when picking up a licensed comic there’s a great sense of trepidation as, let’s be honest, the shelves of your local comic shop are littered with big name books which are small on quality. In this instance any such worries are unfounded as Agent of the Empire is a quality combination of the Star Wars universe and the action spy genre made famous by Bond and Bourne. Set in the period between the Clone Wars and the original trilogy this story centres on an agent of Imperial Intelligence, Jahan Cross. In a very Bondian way we’re introduced to him as one case comes to a close and we have the requisite action scene before the trumpets blare and we get the credits. Such references to the Bond movies are littered throughout and whilst not as knowing as those in the Fables Cinderella books they’re fun nonetheless. There’s even a moment where Cross adjusts cufflinks that he’s not even wearing, if that’s not a tip of the hat to Bond I don’t know what is! This first mission leads Jahan into the Commercial Sector un ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????$??????????????????????????????????'?e???????????????????????????????????????????U???????T???Q???
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