Shin-Ichi Hiromoto’s adaption of George Lucas & Richard Marquand’s 1983 film, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi faithfully adapts the plot of the film. This second volume begins with Luke Skywalker leading the breakout from Jabba’s sail barge at the Sarlacc Pit and ends with the arrival of Han Solo’s strike force on the forest moon of Endor. Hiromoto uses the images to tell the story whenever possible, featuring dynamic art with onomatopoeia and minimal dialogue. As Dark Horse Comics issued these for American Audiences in the late-1990s, they reprinted them to follow the left-to-right reading style of English rather than the right-to-left of Japanese, mirroring the images so that caption bubbles would appear in the correct order for English readers. At times, this means that the scenes in Hiromoto’s art appear reversed as compared to the original film depiction. It that way, Dark Horse Comics’ publication of Hiromoto’s work represents an interesting era in English translations of manga for the U.S. market. More importantly, however, Hiromoto uses the conventions of manga to make the story his own. A good read for both Star Wars and manga fans. ( )

In this book Han, Princess Leia, R2 - D2, 3 - CPO, Luke Skywalker and Lando get caught by Jabba The Hutt. (An ugly monster) They get out of his base. Luke Skywalker gets shot in his right hand and Leia kills Jabba The Hutt with the iron rope around her neck. She shoots at the deck = The whole ship explodes. They fly away. Luke goes to the Dagobah system and Yoda teaches him. Lando gets his men ready to attack on ground with Leia, Luke, Han, R2 - D2, 3 - CPO to clear the energy shield. The book ends before the fight. I saw the movie and I garantee you will like the book or the movie. It is just so funny! ( )