I was the hugest Star Wars fan when I was a kid, despite, or possibly because, I never saw the films until they had that big cinema rerelease in the eighties. I read the novelisations until they were falling apart and, when I could find them, I read the comics. The comics could be hard to find. I'm not so into Star Wars these days, though it remains fondly remembered, but Marvel put some top talent on the new comics when they acquired the license, and Gillen and Larocca on Vader is the most remarkable.

Set in the aftermath of the destruction of the Death Star, Vader's position as the Emperor's chief acolyte is precarious. Shut out, demoted and in danger of being replaced, Vader schemes and conspires and hires lackeys of his own, most notably being the evil-Indiana Jones-in-space Doctor Aphra and her sociopathic pair of oddly familiar bloodthirsty droid helpers. The Emperor expects no less of course.

Anyway, the whole thing is Vader at his formidable indomitable best but it's the scene near the end when Vader hears the name of the rebel pilot who destroyed the Star Wars that deserves to stand as his definitive character moment in any medium.