Pretty big drop-off from the first entry in the new, ongoing Star Wars series from Marvel, but still pretty fun overall. The story in this one feels a lot more forced and coincidence-based than that of the first book (Luke literally falls into a new plot point, for instance), but Jason Aaron has such a knack for nailing the tone of Star Wars that I can't complain too much. 
 We got a couple of things going on in here. First, Luke journeys to Nar Shadda, the Smuggler's Moon, to see if he can hire someone to sneak him into the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Things get a little out of control and he winds up, well, enslaved as a gladiator (duh). It's action-packed, but ultimately just a diversion from the actual plot of the series (Luke investigating his roots as a Jedi). I am glad they brought back a couple of things from the old Expanded Universe, though (Nar Shadda and Jedi Holocrons). 
 The much shittier B-story revolves around Han Solo's "wife" showing up, demanding he return to her, and damaging his relationship with Leia in the process. It's INCREDIBLY forced. We know from moment one that Han Solo can't really have a wife (because of, you know, all the movies where he doesn't), and the majority of the conflict stems from Leia just refusing to allow Han to explain himself. We've seen their bond grow over the course of the previous book, so the fact that she would suddenly just decide to storm off and tell him to shut up every time he tries to explain himself is both wrong and infuriating. Eventually, obviously, it turns out that the woman isn't really his wife, she's an old smuggling partner just trying to get some money Han owed her. Why didn't she just say that to begin with? Why pretend to be his wife? This story sucked. 
 Anyway, there was a lot of blasters and some lightsaber stuff, so the 12-year-old part of me was placated. That's about all I can say about this, though.