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By Various (Dark Horse Books)
ISBN 1-84576-020-4
Spinning off from the Cartoon Network show rather than the major motion picture, this third paperback-sized volume contains four more plot-light, all-action, vignettes set in the Star Wars universe at the time of the Battles between the Republic and Count Dooku’s Separatists.
The first story here is ‘Rogues Gallery’, by Haden Blackman, with art by The Fillbach Brothers, and it’s rather good. In deepest space something is stalking Count Dooku’s evil henchmen Asajj Ventress and Durge, and there’s a creepy frisson of tension amongst all the zipping and zapping. ‘The Package’, the story of a commando raid to recover a stolen box for chancellor Palpatine, is a dark but enjoyable fable drawn by the same team, with Ryan Kaufman scripting.
‘A Stranger in Town’ is written and drawn by The Fillbach, a terrific tribute to the Magnificent Seven starring everybody’s favourite Jedi, Yoda, and the book concludes with the Brothers illustrating Tim Mucci’s taut battle thriller ‘One Battle’.
In England the cartoon episodes aired in 5 minute instalments with a polished, stripped down anime style which the comic stories seeks to emulate. Unfortunately this means that despite some very good adventure strips, these books are over almost before you even realise. Nevertheless youngsters and die-hard fans will lap this up, I’m sure. And you could read them between bus-stops. So perhaps you should.
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But my favourite Jedi is Kenobi !
Bruce
And if you buy them all he’ll be in some of them.
Unless you mean old, wrinkly Kenobi.
Not him.
Nope.
That green, short one’s pretty wrinkly though…
Win (Somewhat wrinkly)