#ad w4

written by Matt Owens art by Denys Cowan, Edgar Salazar, Roberto Poggi, Scott Hanna, & Guru-eFX

[ Star Wars - Jedi of the Republic - Mace Windu #5 ] AD-W4 is someone we’ve seen to have entirely vile motivations for being here, he doesn’t care about anyone else, he only does what he does for credits.  And this fight isn’t about him having some ~true understanding of Mace, but instead the context (and this comic is really consistent with having a lot of deliberate themes and reasons for the choices it makes with characters like Drooz, Prosset, and AD-W4) is that this is someone who does not understand the Jedi. This is someone just trying to throw Mace off his game, who is trying to mock what he doesn’t understand (doing the right thing for its own sake, rather than for money or power). The whole point of the flashbacks in showing Mace struggling with his anger at the horrible monstrous things people in the galaxy do is that he did learn to master those feelings.  That’s ultimately what Prosset’s fate is about--that true Jedi ever strive toward the light, even when someone flings mud at them like this. And ultimately the point is--when you look at someone like this, who criticizes Mace in a “you hypocrite, you love the violence and you’re just a religious zealot!” is coming from someone who is shown to be motivated by terrible things and truly on the side of the wrong AND the entire theme of the comic is showing that Mace has mastered himself?  Then AD-W4 IS ABSOLUTELY, 100% TOTALLY WRONG IN THE NARRATIVE AND THAT’S THE POINT. The whole point is that Mace Windu has faith and is balanced to the good. That he is a man of feelings that are deeply tempered with compassion.  That the anger he experiences are about the things that are wrong.  And that he has grown into a man who will fight not because he enjoys it but because evil must be fought.  That’s literally what this is all about.  Evil must be fought.

Star Wars: Jedi of the Republic - Mace Windu (2017) #1 art by Denys Cowan

Jedi of the Republic: Mace Windu #5 (2017) main cover by Rod Reis

written by Matt Owens art by Denys Cowan, Roberto Poggi, & Guru-eFX

written by Matt Owens art by Denys Cowan, Roberto Poggi, & Guru-eFX

Jedi of the Republic: Mace Windu #3 (2017) textless main cover by Jesus Saiz

written by Matt Owens art by Denys Cowan, Roberto Poggi, & Guru-eFX