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jaredkwheeler's review
2.0
Star Wars Legends Project #113
Background: Clone Wars Adventures, Volume 7 was released in January of 2007. It consists of four stories in the style of Cartoon Network's animated Clone Wars series: Creature Comfort, Spy Girls, Impregnable, and This Precious Shining. The first and last were pencilled by the [author:Fillbach Brothers|5498466], and they also wrote the first one. The second was written by [author:Ryan Kaufman|95259] and drawn by [author:Stewart McKenny|20053], the third was written by [author:Chris Avellone|95272] with art by [author:Ethan Beavers|2621224], and the fourth was written by [author:Jeremy Barlow|20006]. McKenny has worked on a smattering of other Star Wars comics, along with Captain America and DC Super Friends. Avellone has also written a few other comics, but is better known as the lead writer behind Knights of the Old Republic II as well as the games Fallout 2, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment. Beavers has worked on a few random Star Wars comics and other Star Wars books, as well. Barlow has written and edited dozens of Star Wars comics.
Creature Comfort is set 30 months after the Battle of Geonosis (21 years before the Battle of Yavin), and features Obi-Wan and Anakin. Spy Girls takes place on Coruscant 4 months after the Battle of Geonosis (22 years before Yavin), and the protagonists are Padme, Sheltay Retrac (mother of Winter Celchu), and C-3PO, with appearances by Captain Typho and Bail Organa. Impregnable takes place two months later. It takes place on Amaltanna with Jedi Bultar Swan. This Precious Shining also takes place 4 months after the Battle of Geonosis, on an unidentified planet, with characters who don't appear anywhere else.
Incidentally, in case anyone noticed that I skipped from Volume 3 to Volume 7, the stories in Volumes 4-6 of Clone Wars Adventures are all set a few years later, at the end of the Clone Wars. Volumes 7-10, for whatever reason, mostly returned to the early months of the war (although, honestly, there's no particular importance to the chronology placement of any of these stories).
Summary: In Creature Comfort, Obi-Wan and Anakin have a series of harrowing encounters with the local fauna of an unnamed planet.
In Spy Girls, Padme and Sheltay use their status as cover to infiltrate a party on Coruscant in an attempt to trap an undercover Separatist.
In Impregnable, Bultar Swan faces defeat at the hands of a Separatist leader unless she can successfully assault a fortress designed to be completely unassailable.
In This Precious Shining, a gang of scavengers trying to escape their planet in the aftermath of a battle are distracted by the chance to plunder a Separatist treasury.
Review: Please refer to my review of [book:Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Vol. 1|35438] for some general thoughts that apply to the series as a whole.
None of these stories stood out as particularly memorable or good to me. Creature Comforts is the same basic slapstick-action formula we've seen in most of the other Anakin and Obi-Wan stories, but the absurdity level dialed up a bit higher. Maybe that makes it more fun, or maybe that just makes it dumber. Maybe both. Spy Girls is probably the best of the bunch. It certainly has the most potential to be. But there's a kind of patronizingly self-conscious "girl power" vibe to it that comes off as more awkward tokenism than sincere . . . None of the other stories ever really even acknowledge the gender of their characters, so to suddenly make a big deal about it seems forced. Impregnable is competently executed, but the idea behind it is pretty thin. This Precious Shining is notable in that it features characters who aren't established heroes, or even on any particular side, but then it doesn't make them terribly memorable or sympathetic. The whole thing is pretty much a pass.
D
Background: Clone Wars Adventures, Volume 7 was released in January of 2007. It consists of four stories in the style of Cartoon Network's animated Clone Wars series: Creature Comfort, Spy Girls, Impregnable, and This Precious Shining. The first and last were pencilled by the [author:Fillbach Brothers|5498466], and they also wrote the first one. The second was written by [author:Ryan Kaufman|95259] and drawn by [author:Stewart McKenny|20053], the third was written by [author:Chris Avellone|95272] with art by [author:Ethan Beavers|2621224], and the fourth was written by [author:Jeremy Barlow|20006]. McKenny has worked on a smattering of other Star Wars comics, along with Captain America and DC Super Friends. Avellone has also written a few other comics, but is better known as the lead writer behind Knights of the Old Republic II as well as the games Fallout 2, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment. Beavers has worked on a few random Star Wars comics and other Star Wars books, as well. Barlow has written and edited dozens of Star Wars comics.
Creature Comfort is set 30 months after the Battle of Geonosis (21 years before the Battle of Yavin), and features Obi-Wan and Anakin. Spy Girls takes place on Coruscant 4 months after the Battle of Geonosis (22 years before Yavin), and the protagonists are Padme, Sheltay Retrac (mother of Winter Celchu), and C-3PO, with appearances by Captain Typho and Bail Organa. Impregnable takes place two months later. It takes place on Amaltanna with Jedi Bultar Swan. This Precious Shining also takes place 4 months after the Battle of Geonosis, on an unidentified planet, with characters who don't appear anywhere else.
Incidentally, in case anyone noticed that I skipped from Volume 3 to Volume 7, the stories in Volumes 4-6 of Clone Wars Adventures are all set a few years later, at the end of the Clone Wars. Volumes 7-10, for whatever reason, mostly returned to the early months of the war (although, honestly, there's no particular importance to the chronology placement of any of these stories).
Summary: In Creature Comfort, Obi-Wan and Anakin have a series of harrowing encounters with the local fauna of an unnamed planet.
In Spy Girls, Padme and Sheltay use their status as cover to infiltrate a party on Coruscant in an attempt to trap an undercover Separatist.
In Impregnable, Bultar Swan faces defeat at the hands of a Separatist leader unless she can successfully assault a fortress designed to be completely unassailable.
In This Precious Shining, a gang of scavengers trying to escape their planet in the aftermath of a battle are distracted by the chance to plunder a Separatist treasury.
Review: Please refer to my review of [book:Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Vol. 1|35438] for some general thoughts that apply to the series as a whole.
None of these stories stood out as particularly memorable or good to me. Creature Comforts is the same basic slapstick-action formula we've seen in most of the other Anakin and Obi-Wan stories, but the absurdity level dialed up a bit higher. Maybe that makes it more fun, or maybe that just makes it dumber. Maybe both. Spy Girls is probably the best of the bunch. It certainly has the most potential to be. But there's a kind of patronizingly self-conscious "girl power" vibe to it that comes off as more awkward tokenism than sincere . . . None of the other stories ever really even acknowledge the gender of their characters, so to suddenly make a big deal about it seems forced. Impregnable is competently executed, but the idea behind it is pretty thin. This Precious Shining is notable in that it features characters who aren't established heroes, or even on any particular side, but then it doesn't make them terribly memorable or sympathetic. The whole thing is pretty much a pass.
D
bums's review
3.0
Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Vol. 7 - 3/5
Thrilling adventures abound in this sizzling selection of super stories that feature: the formidable twosome Anakin and Kenobi's struggle against the brutal beasts of a far frontier, the persistent Padme pursuing a perfidious plot, the silent but surgical Bultar Swan as she takes down a dastardly Separatist fortress, and 3 bickering brothers fleeing their war-torn world by way of a bank heist gone terribly wrong.
Action and Adventure burst through the pages of these terrific tales to create a frantically fun foray into the Star Wars universe. They won't be shifting your stance on Star Wars storytelling, but they'll still act as an entertaining ride through their sparkling sci-fantasy stars nonetheless.
Thrilling adventures abound in this sizzling selection of super stories that feature: the formidable twosome Anakin and Kenobi's struggle against the brutal beasts of a far frontier, the persistent Padme pursuing a perfidious plot, the silent but surgical Bultar Swan as she takes down a dastardly Separatist fortress, and 3 bickering brothers fleeing their war-torn world by way of a bank heist gone terribly wrong.
Action and Adventure burst through the pages of these terrific tales to create a frantically fun foray into the Star Wars universe. They won't be shifting your stance on Star Wars storytelling, but they'll still act as an entertaining ride through their sparkling sci-fantasy stars nonetheless.
rivulet027's review
4.0
The first story is Anakin and Obi-Wan bantering as they save each other and get attacked by animals on the planet they're on. It's clear the animals destroyed the droids that the two were looking for.
The second is a Padme story. She's attending a gala put on by Senator Drexx with Bail, Typho, C-3PO, and Sheltay. They comment on how lavish the gala is and how rich Drexx is, with Bail revealing that he suspects Drexx is accepting bribes from the Separatists. He asked everyone to keep their eyes and ears open. Captain Typho requested that Padme leave the dangerous things to the Jedi and the clone army. Padme and Sheltay mingle, eventually complimenting Drexx so that he'll brag about his security. Then he's called away to an important meeting. They follow and bring C-3PO, rescuing him from an amorous lady who loves protocol droids. Padme and Sheltay ditch their gowns and take the spy gear that Padme hid on C-3PO. She and Sheltay fight their way past security and eventually have to split up. Padme manages to record Drexx accepting a bribe and then has to fight her way past security, which ends with the she's stuck on a balcony, but then Sheltay comes to the rescue. It was fun to see Padme team up with another woman and do her spying thing. I liked that Padme brought up being told to leave everything dangerous to the Jedi and the clones, but she feels that they're spread thin and so she wants to help where she can. I didn't quite like all the 'you're only a girl' jokes, but it was nice to see Padme turn that around and take down the person insulting her, but it still got to be a bit much. The ending was funny with them realizing they left C-3PO at the party.
It was nice to see a Bultar Swan story! It was sad though. This takes place on Amaltanna, six months after the Battle of Geonosis. She's fighting her way into a fortress. The person hiding in the fortress is taunting her. He tells her he's not going to accept a life-time imprisonment on Coruscant. Then he tells her his own people tried to bring him to trial for sending supplies to the Separatists, but that he had his droids kill all of them the same way he killed the entire clone troops that had come with Bultar. He continues to tell her how impregnable his fortress is and she keeps fighting every droid he sends at her, while destroying what systems she can. When she leaves he had no outside communication, is unable to escape where he's trapped himself in, and his life support is failing.
The forth story is three guys who are trying to escape the fighting. They have a transport with a farmer arranged and are trying to get there. The story is told from Rayt's pov. He used to work at the bank and he knows how many Separatist resources are in the vaults. He and the other two come up with a plan to put clone trooper armor on and sneak in to the vault and steal what they want. When they're almost there they see a family Rayt knows in trouble. Rayt says, "Trillan Kato and his family. He and I worked at the bank together for years. They've had me over for dinner more than once. Those vaults won't wait for us. If we don't keep moving the treasure will be gone and our hope for escape along with it. I don't have time for a conscience and yet..." So Rayt convinces the other two to help him rescue Trillan and his family. One of the guys with him takes out the droids and then they rush towards Trillan and his family...who then start shooting at them yelling, "Die clone scum" since they're still wearing the clone armor they stole. So the three run and make it to the vault. They're fighting over which treasure to take when a group of clones show up and get them to help inventory everything and then help load it onto their ship. The story ends with them on the ship afraid to take their helmets off, knowing that they'll end up in the brig when they're discovered.
The second is a Padme story. She's attending a gala put on by Senator Drexx with Bail, Typho, C-3PO, and Sheltay. They comment on how lavish the gala is and how rich Drexx is, with Bail revealing that he suspects Drexx is accepting bribes from the Separatists. He asked everyone to keep their eyes and ears open. Captain Typho requested that Padme leave the dangerous things to the Jedi and the clone army. Padme and Sheltay mingle, eventually complimenting Drexx so that he'll brag about his security. Then he's called away to an important meeting. They follow and bring C-3PO, rescuing him from an amorous lady who loves protocol droids. Padme and Sheltay ditch their gowns and take the spy gear that Padme hid on C-3PO. She and Sheltay fight their way past security and eventually have to split up. Padme manages to record Drexx accepting a bribe and then has to fight her way past security, which ends with the she's stuck on a balcony, but then Sheltay comes to the rescue. It was fun to see Padme team up with another woman and do her spying thing. I liked that Padme brought up being told to leave everything dangerous to the Jedi and the clones, but she feels that they're spread thin and so she wants to help where she can. I didn't quite like all the 'you're only a girl' jokes, but it was nice to see Padme turn that around and take down the person insulting her, but it still got to be a bit much. The ending was funny with them realizing they left C-3PO at the party.
It was nice to see a Bultar Swan story! It was sad though. This takes place on Amaltanna, six months after the Battle of Geonosis. She's fighting her way into a fortress. The person hiding in the fortress is taunting her. He tells her he's not going to accept a life-time imprisonment on Coruscant. Then he tells her his own people tried to bring him to trial for sending supplies to the Separatists, but that he had his droids kill all of them the same way he killed the entire clone troops that had come with Bultar. He continues to tell her how impregnable his fortress is and she keeps fighting every droid he sends at her, while destroying what systems she can. When she leaves he had no outside communication, is unable to escape where he's trapped himself in, and his life support is failing.
The forth story is three guys who are trying to escape the fighting. They have a transport with a farmer arranged and are trying to get there. The story is told from Rayt's pov. He used to work at the bank and he knows how many Separatist resources are in the vaults. He and the other two come up with a plan to put clone trooper armor on and sneak in to the vault and steal what they want. When they're almost there they see a family Rayt knows in trouble. Rayt says, "Trillan Kato and his family. He and I worked at the bank together for years. They've had me over for dinner more than once. Those vaults won't wait for us. If we don't keep moving the treasure will be gone and our hope for escape along with it. I don't have time for a conscience and yet..." So Rayt convinces the other two to help him rescue Trillan and his family. One of the guys with him takes out the droids and then they rush towards Trillan and his family...who then start shooting at them yelling, "Die clone scum" since they're still wearing the clone armor they stole. So the three run and make it to the vault. They're fighting over which treasure to take when a group of clones show up and get them to help inventory everything and then help load it onto their ship. The story ends with them on the ship afraid to take their helmets off, knowing that they'll end up in the brig when they're discovered.
rhaenyratargaryen's review
3.0
En mi comic aparece como 5, no como 7, y el que aparece como 6 en los míos no está acá. QUÉ.
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