Sana Starros #4
FAMILY MATTERS
PART FOUR: PERFECT STRANGERS
Sana Starros has made her way across the galaxy, pulling heists with Han Solo, getting mixed up with Doctor Aphra, and everything in between. After a bad breakup, Sana decides to chart a new path….
Upon returning to the Starros family homestead, Sana was greeted by her Grammy Thea Starros and cousin Aryssha, who is pregnant with the first children of the next generation of the Starros family! There’s only one complication: The father is Imperial Officer Cerasus Ehllo, who is NOT fond of the Starros family and issued an attack on the family’s home to retrieve Aryssha and have the children born into Imperial care.
After meeting up with “Auntie” Deva Lompop, Sana was wrangled into helping the bounty hunter free a rancor from a corrupt syndicate leader, but while that was happening, bounty hunter Marl Jibs kidnapped Grammy.
Now Deva, Mevera and Sana have to save Grammy, all the while Aryssha is still stuck with Cerasus and the Imperials, including Sana’s twin brother, Phel….
Writer: Justina Ireland
Artist: Pere Pérez
Letterer: Travis Lanham
Colorist: Dono Sánchez-Almara
Cover artist: Ken Lashley
Editor: Mark Paniccia
Publication date: May 31, 2023
We kick off the issue as the Starroses regroup aboard the Vector Bundle. Grammy is captured, there’s a bounty on the head of Mervera and Aryssha hasn’t checked in for a while. The tension is palpable as we cut to a captive Aryssha, angry as her older cousin Phel explains why she is being held, and we recap to his younegr days as twin sister Sana leaves to find her own destiny while he falls in with a bad crowd before being ‘rescued’ by the Empire. The structure and order of their regime gives him focus, and as he tells Aryssha she needs to focus on her pregnancy and her marriage to Cerasus she realises she’s made a terrible mistake.
Back to the Vector Bundle above Hynestia as Mervera, Sana and Deva prepare their plan. Knowing it’s a trap, Deva tells Sana as much, claiming they’ll learn from their plans failure, and then seeing how tightly wound Sana is tells her to punch her. They scrap for a while i thesnows of Hynestia, Sana finally getting the better of Deva before continuing in to the township. Knowig they’re walking into a trap, they jettison stealth and enter, where Grammy is sat next to Marl Jibs, who admits he’s not a bounty hunter but rather a distraction as Snowtroopers storm in, firing and hitting Mervera as Sana and Deva leap for cover. They lay down fire, leaving the burning building and running itno Phel.
Face to face with her twin brother, Sana opts to fire first, taking out his flanking troopers, and using the fighting skills she showed against Deva, she winds and takes down her brother before he whips out his blaster. He fires, just as Deva leaps in and knocks Sana out of the way, taking the shot. Phel is shocked, not wanting to involve ‘Auntie Deva’ and runs back to the Kings Ransom where he has the captured Grammy and Mervera, who are reunited with Aryssha just as her waters break and she goes into labour.
With the final issue set to wrap the storyline up it’s hard to see the endgame. While Sana is an interesting supporting character, she’s no Doctor Aphra and those shortcomings are being highlighted here in her own series where she should be leading the adventure but instead she’s no more a focal character than her cousin, her ‘Grammy’ or Deva Lompop. Frustrating, as this really should be a very unique view of the galaxy and the underworld these characters inhabit, but instead it’s falling flat. Here’s hoping the final issue is a blockbuster that proves me wrong and delivers something special, but after a promising start this 5-part series is limping to the finishing line.
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