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The Final Days Of Doctor Aphra In Darth Vader #25 (SPOILERS)

"I've got you this time, Brer Rabbit," said Brer Fox, jumping up and shaking off the dust. "You've sassed me for the very last time. Now I wonder what I should do with you?"

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Remember this scene from Darth Vader #4? The second appearance of Doctor Aphra, rogue archeologist, sometimes working for Vader? And reviver of protocol droid O-O-O and assassin droid BT-8?

Brer Rabbit's eyes got very large. "Oh please Brer Fox, whatever you do, please don't throw me into the briar patch.

Today's Darth Vader #25, the final issue by Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca, who have delivered one of the finer runs on a Marvel comic book, revisits that moment as Vader finally takes action against a rebellious employee.

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"Maybe I should roast you over a fire and eat you," mused Brer Fox. "No, that's too much trouble. Maybe I'll hang you instead."

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"Roast me! Hang me! Do whatever you please," said Brer Rabbit. "Only please, Brer Fox, please don't throw me into the briar patch."

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"If I'm going to hang you, I'll need some string," said Brer Fox. "And I don't have any string handy. But the stream's not far away, so maybe I'll drown you instead."


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"Drown me! Roast me! Hang me! Do whatever you please," said Brer Rabbit. "Only please, Brer Fox, please don't throw me into the briar patch."

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"The briar patch, eh?" said Brer Fox. "What a wonderful idea! You'll be torn into little pieces!"

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Grabbing up the tar-covered rabbit, Brer Fox swung him around and around and then flung him head over heels into the briar patch. Brer Rabbit let out such a scream as he fell that all of Brer Fox's fur stood straight up. Brer Rabbit fell into the briar bushes with a crash and a mighty thump. Then there was silence.

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Brer Fox cocked one ear toward the briar patch, listening for whimpers of pain. But he heard nothing. Brer Fox cocked the other ear toward the briar patch, listening for Brer Rabbit's death rattle. He heard nothing.

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Then Brer Fox heard someone calling his name. He turned around and looked up the hill. Brer Rabbit was sitting on a log combing the tar out of his fur with a wood chip and looking smug.

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"I was bred and born in the briar patch, Brer Fox," he called. "Born and bred in the briar patch."

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And now? Now we get the possibility of a Doctor Aphra ongoing Star Wars series, all of her own, with droids O-O-O, BT-8 and the wookie bounty hunter Black Krrsantan, by Kieron Gillen and Kev Walker.

Announced this week?

Though she never got to tell Darth Vader what he thought of his poetry….


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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