Star Wars: The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight (Tony DiTerlizzi)

In this book, Tony DiTerlizzi condenses the original Star Wars trilogy into one book, focusing on Luke Skywalker's story. Ultimately, his goal is to use the story as a vehicle to showcase Ralph McQuarrie's original concept art for the saga.

The story was far too rushed, re-telling three movies in 64 pages, but I really enjoyed the art (which was the whole point anyway). Since it is concept art, it didn't always portray what ended up in the films, but it was impressively similar most of the time—George Lucas used an awful lot of McQuarrie's ideas. In addition, the art on a given page didn't always directly correlate to that part of the story, but it made sense to pack as much of the art as possible into this book. 

This is a book where you ignore the text and simply enjoy the pictures.

Rating: A-