star wars scans, part three
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bedlamsbardThese are getting more extensive as I hit the volumes that I really, really like -- I may actually go back and re-scan parts of volume 3, because I love the Battle of Jabiim, really, I do, and I barely touched on it.
Hello, ladies. Bariss Offee and T'ra Saa, with a group of wounded Jedi and clones on an embattled planet, who are abruptly interrupted by the arrival of a group of bounty hunters. Turns out the bounty hunters are from the Crimson Nova chapter of the bounty hunters' guild, which has accepted an (illegal) bounty on Jedi. Mace Windu and three other Jedi go to teach a lesson on why you really, really don't want to fuck with Jedi. (So wanted to scan this entire sequence, because motherfucking Jedi, man, but my scans are already excessive.)
Saesee Tiin's the one with the horns, and we've already met Agen Kolar and Kit Fisto. As well as Mace Windu, of course. And if this group looks familiar: it's the strike team from RotS, the first victims of Order 66. THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T FUCK WITH JEDI. (Unless you're a Sith lord.)
There's a brief unexpected interlude in the form of a somewhat-heartbreaking issue called "Forever Young," which stars Anakin, Obi-Wan, and a newly-knighted (or possibly masterless Padawan, but she doesn't have a braid) Jedi named Tohno who goes on a suicide mission to blow up a droid foundry. I actually really like this issue, although it's somewhat flawed in that the author tried to make it all about Anakin's need to save people and not about Tohno's sacrifice. One scan from it, when Tohno's found in the generator room:
She succeeds in her mission: the foundry blows up: she dies: Anakin angsts.
Meanwhile, Aayla Secura and her clone commander Bly run into Quinlan Vos on a mission and have to team up. This issue is called "Armor", and it's told from Bly's POV -- Bly's one of the clone commanders who executes Order 66, and this issue does a pretty good job at showing clone reasoning on following the seemingly crazy order. One scan: the attack.
You may be looking at me and going, "Bed, there is a paucity of scans here. Why so few for things that sound awesome?" BECAUSE NEXT OBI-WAN AND QUINLAN TEAM UP, THAT'S WHAT.
The Republic is trying to keep a fleet of dreadnaughts from Rendili from joining the Confederacy, and sort of failing. Obi-Wan's wandering around following up a Jedi distress call, and runs into Quinlan Vos.
He's on the run from the Confederacy, since he failed in his last mission (the one where he ran into Aayla and Bly) and is somewhat surprised to run into Obi-Wan. Meanwhile, the situation back with the fleets is going badly, and two officers and the Jedi Master Plo Koon have just been taken hostage.
Obi-Wan and Quin snark at each other.
And they're being stalked by two of Dooku's Dark Jedi, Tol Skorr and Asajj Ventress. Ventress, still obsessed with Obi-Wan! They run into each other, fight, and Obi-Wan sets a rancor (it's a zoological expeditionary ship) on Ventress so that he can get Quin out of there, then sends Quin with his starfighter to go retrieve his ship (which has been airlocked by Ventress and Skorr).
LOOK AT THAT BADASS MOTHERFUCKER RIGHT THERE. That panel second from the bottom is one of my favorite ones in the entire series, look at him. Just look at him!
Theyflirt fight some more, Quin retrieves his ship and blows up Obi-Wan's starfighter so Skorr and Ventress can't get it, and Skorr comes in with his ship, which looks kind of like a Cylon.
LOOK AT HIM. He's alone, and slightly worried Quin won't come back, and surrounded by Dark Jedi. It cannot end well. Except it does! And Obi-Wan and Quin go back to the fleet, where Saesee Tiin (commanding) promptly sticks Quinlan in prison.
Meanwhile, a newly-knight Anakin has a plan. No one else really approves, but he doesn't care.
Then there's a GIANT FIGHT. And Quin breaks out of prison, because having actual physical bars instead of energy ones is good because they don't fail when your power cuts out. Except he goes to help Anakin and Obi-Wan, and he and Obi-Wan snark at each other some more (and now I'm mildly frustrated because I swear I scanned this and I now can't find it, so I guess I didn't), and rescue Plo Koon and the officers.
And everything ends well! After much debate, Quin is accepted back into the Jedi Order, and -- oh wait. Asajj Ventress has tracked Obi-Wan to Coruscant, but runs into Anakin instead and makes the fatal mistake of threatening Padme. This is, by the way, when Anakin gets the scar over his eye.
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This is my favorite volume of the series, or it would be, if it was just "Obsession" instead of tacking on the weak, OOC special from Free Comic Book Day 2005, which doesn't have a good writer and doesn't have good art. (So no scans from that, obvs.)
This is the volume you want if the following things interest you: explosions, Obi-Wan being a badass, Anakin being a badass, Bail Organa, space battles, Mace Windu, lots of Jedi kicking ass, land battles, Count Dooku, Asajj Ventress, Obi-Wan being a crazy motherfucker, lightsaber battles, and Obi-Wan obsessing like a crazy person. I love this volume. If you want to get one volume of SW:TCW, get this one. I mean, unless you don't enjoy Jedi fucking other people's shit up, in which case, why are you here?
Obi-Wan has a hunch that Asajj Ventress isn't dead and has been wandering the galaxy, as Anakin puts it, "shaking down every Confederacy thug from Coruscant to Kashyyyk." He enters with a fairly epic swoop chase that goes on for FIVE PAGES, it's amazing, and then this happens:
(The cut-off dialogue is "So did he." I was on a different computer+scanner than I've been previously, it was a bad idea.)
He meets up with Aayla Secura, who tells him that he looks awful and really needs to sleep, but Obi-Wan has other things to do:
After brawling for a while, Obi-Wan finally convinces Xist that he ought to just give Obi-Wan the intel he wants by virtue of kicking him in the face a lot.
(This is, coincidentally, the first time in the comics that we see Obi-Wan with the short hair he has in RotS instead of the long hair he has in AotC.)
Obi-Wan checks in with the Jedi Council, which tells him to follow up on the intel he got from Xist, and then goes to collect Anakin, who's been on leave on Naboo with Padme. Anakin is not pleased to see him.
And Obi-Wan replies, "Anakin, every Padawan on Coruscant knows where to find you.Your secret is not that secret." (This is also the only time we see Padme in the comics! She basically does nothing except make out with Anakin and tell them to stop fighting with each other. Anakin reluctantly agrees and returns to Theed to get his starfighter since "some of us respect the planet's no-fly zones." Meanwhile, Bail Organa and Mace Windu set off for the Outer Rim.
I like this scene because it's the kind of thing Anakin does -- fly upside down because he's bored. And it reminds me a little of a similar scene in BSG, with Hotdog and Starbuck.
The ship they're looking for shows up eventually, and it doesn't have Ventress on it. But it does have Durge. Whoops. I did not scan most of the fight scene, because y'all have to have a reason to buy this TPB, but here is one scene. Because Anakin.
Obi-Wan tells Anakin to deal with Durge and goes off to find his ship, hoping he can find something to lead him back to Ventress. Boy's a little obsessed.
Obi-Wan gets the info he wants, while Anakin shoots Durge into a sun (he's a little annoyed), and they make their escape, where they are rescued by Bail Organa and Alpha. While waiting to rendezvous with the other Jedi, Anakin and Obi-Wan spar:
And then we're treated to a room full of eleven Jedi, only one of whom is a woman. *hands* (Didn't scan this because it's a two-page spread.) I mean, the lady's Adi Gallia, who is pretty badass, but STILL. The next massive multi-Jedi task force has a much higher proportion of ladies-to-dudes.
They need to attack the planet of Boz Pity, which is protected by a massive blockade of CIS ships. And Obi-Wan comes up with the really crazy idea of coming out of hyperspace between the planet and the ships. He puts Anakin at the helm.
In case you can't make it out (it's tee-tiny even in the comic), what Obi-Wan whispers to Anakin is, "Anakin, stay calm. Remember your training."
Then they crash and engage in a massive battle, where Obi-Wan...wanders off. And runs into Dooku. And Ventress, in a bacta tank which Dooku breaks.
And Obi-Wan makes his -- oh -- fourth or fifth dramatic entrance of the issue.
As for what happens after that? Well -- I have to leave something for you to find out on your own, right? Love this issue. Love, love, love. If my posts have you even vaguely intrigued by the Clone Wars comics, buy this one, because it's the longest single issue (it's not an arc) and it stands on its own pretty well. Plus it has Obi-Wan and Anakin kicking ass and taking names, what more do you need? And several space battles! (Why couldn't they have made this into a movie? RotS would have been much improved.)
Next up: the final two Clone Wars TPBs, one of which is actually a mostly post-Clone Wars volume. (Let's put it this way: the last issue is called "Purge." Oh, my poor doomed Jedi.)
Hello, ladies. Bariss Offee and T'ra Saa, with a group of wounded Jedi and clones on an embattled planet, who are abruptly interrupted by the arrival of a group of bounty hunters. Turns out the bounty hunters are from the Crimson Nova chapter of the bounty hunters' guild, which has accepted an (illegal) bounty on Jedi. Mace Windu and three other Jedi go to teach a lesson on why you really, really don't want to fuck with Jedi. (So wanted to scan this entire sequence, because motherfucking Jedi, man, but my scans are already excessive.)
Saesee Tiin's the one with the horns, and we've already met Agen Kolar and Kit Fisto. As well as Mace Windu, of course. And if this group looks familiar: it's the strike team from RotS, the first victims of Order 66. THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T FUCK WITH JEDI. (Unless you're a Sith lord.)
There's a brief unexpected interlude in the form of a somewhat-heartbreaking issue called "Forever Young," which stars Anakin, Obi-Wan, and a newly-knighted (or possibly masterless Padawan, but she doesn't have a braid) Jedi named Tohno who goes on a suicide mission to blow up a droid foundry. I actually really like this issue, although it's somewhat flawed in that the author tried to make it all about Anakin's need to save people and not about Tohno's sacrifice. One scan from it, when Tohno's found in the generator room:
She succeeds in her mission: the foundry blows up: she dies: Anakin angsts.
Meanwhile, Aayla Secura and her clone commander Bly run into Quinlan Vos on a mission and have to team up. This issue is called "Armor", and it's told from Bly's POV -- Bly's one of the clone commanders who executes Order 66, and this issue does a pretty good job at showing clone reasoning on following the seemingly crazy order. One scan: the attack.
You may be looking at me and going, "Bed, there is a paucity of scans here. Why so few for things that sound awesome?" BECAUSE NEXT OBI-WAN AND QUINLAN TEAM UP, THAT'S WHAT.
The Republic is trying to keep a fleet of dreadnaughts from Rendili from joining the Confederacy, and sort of failing. Obi-Wan's wandering around following up a Jedi distress call, and runs into Quinlan Vos.
He's on the run from the Confederacy, since he failed in his last mission (the one where he ran into Aayla and Bly) and is somewhat surprised to run into Obi-Wan. Meanwhile, the situation back with the fleets is going badly, and two officers and the Jedi Master Plo Koon have just been taken hostage.
Obi-Wan and Quin snark at each other.
And they're being stalked by two of Dooku's Dark Jedi, Tol Skorr and Asajj Ventress. Ventress, still obsessed with Obi-Wan! They run into each other, fight, and Obi-Wan sets a rancor (it's a zoological expeditionary ship) on Ventress so that he can get Quin out of there, then sends Quin with his starfighter to go retrieve his ship (which has been airlocked by Ventress and Skorr).
LOOK AT THAT BADASS MOTHERFUCKER RIGHT THERE. That panel second from the bottom is one of my favorite ones in the entire series, look at him. Just look at him!
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LOOK AT HIM. He's alone, and slightly worried Quin won't come back, and surrounded by Dark Jedi. It cannot end well. Except it does! And Obi-Wan and Quin go back to the fleet, where Saesee Tiin (commanding) promptly sticks Quinlan in prison.
Meanwhile, a newly-knight Anakin has a plan. No one else really approves, but he doesn't care.
Then there's a GIANT FIGHT. And Quin breaks out of prison, because having actual physical bars instead of energy ones is good because they don't fail when your power cuts out. Except he goes to help Anakin and Obi-Wan, and he and Obi-Wan snark at each other some more (and now I'm mildly frustrated because I swear I scanned this and I now can't find it, so I guess I didn't), and rescue Plo Koon and the officers.
And everything ends well! After much debate, Quin is accepted back into the Jedi Order, and -- oh wait. Asajj Ventress has tracked Obi-Wan to Coruscant, but runs into Anakin instead and makes the fatal mistake of threatening Padme. This is, by the way, when Anakin gets the scar over his eye.
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This is my favorite volume of the series, or it would be, if it was just "Obsession" instead of tacking on the weak, OOC special from Free Comic Book Day 2005, which doesn't have a good writer and doesn't have good art. (So no scans from that, obvs.)
This is the volume you want if the following things interest you: explosions, Obi-Wan being a badass, Anakin being a badass, Bail Organa, space battles, Mace Windu, lots of Jedi kicking ass, land battles, Count Dooku, Asajj Ventress, Obi-Wan being a crazy motherfucker, lightsaber battles, and Obi-Wan obsessing like a crazy person. I love this volume. If you want to get one volume of SW:TCW, get this one. I mean, unless you don't enjoy Jedi fucking other people's shit up, in which case, why are you here?
Obi-Wan has a hunch that Asajj Ventress isn't dead and has been wandering the galaxy, as Anakin puts it, "shaking down every Confederacy thug from Coruscant to Kashyyyk." He enters with a fairly epic swoop chase that goes on for FIVE PAGES, it's amazing, and then this happens:
(The cut-off dialogue is "So did he." I was on a different computer+scanner than I've been previously, it was a bad idea.)
He meets up with Aayla Secura, who tells him that he looks awful and really needs to sleep, but Obi-Wan has other things to do:
After brawling for a while, Obi-Wan finally convinces Xist that he ought to just give Obi-Wan the intel he wants by virtue of kicking him in the face a lot.
(This is, coincidentally, the first time in the comics that we see Obi-Wan with the short hair he has in RotS instead of the long hair he has in AotC.)
Obi-Wan checks in with the Jedi Council, which tells him to follow up on the intel he got from Xist, and then goes to collect Anakin, who's been on leave on Naboo with Padme. Anakin is not pleased to see him.
And Obi-Wan replies, "Anakin, every Padawan on Coruscant knows where to find you.
I like this scene because it's the kind of thing Anakin does -- fly upside down because he's bored. And it reminds me a little of a similar scene in BSG, with Hotdog and Starbuck.
The ship they're looking for shows up eventually, and it doesn't have Ventress on it. But it does have Durge. Whoops. I did not scan most of the fight scene, because y'all have to have a reason to buy this TPB, but here is one scene. Because Anakin.
Obi-Wan tells Anakin to deal with Durge and goes off to find his ship, hoping he can find something to lead him back to Ventress. Boy's a little obsessed.
Obi-Wan gets the info he wants, while Anakin shoots Durge into a sun (he's a little annoyed), and they make their escape, where they are rescued by Bail Organa and Alpha. While waiting to rendezvous with the other Jedi, Anakin and Obi-Wan spar:
And then we're treated to a room full of eleven Jedi, only one of whom is a woman. *hands* (Didn't scan this because it's a two-page spread.) I mean, the lady's Adi Gallia, who is pretty badass, but STILL. The next massive multi-Jedi task force has a much higher proportion of ladies-to-dudes.
They need to attack the planet of Boz Pity, which is protected by a massive blockade of CIS ships. And Obi-Wan comes up with the really crazy idea of coming out of hyperspace between the planet and the ships. He puts Anakin at the helm.
In case you can't make it out (it's tee-tiny even in the comic), what Obi-Wan whispers to Anakin is, "Anakin, stay calm. Remember your training."
Then they crash and engage in a massive battle, where Obi-Wan...wanders off. And runs into Dooku. And Ventress, in a bacta tank which Dooku breaks.
And Obi-Wan makes his -- oh -- fourth or fifth dramatic entrance of the issue.
As for what happens after that? Well -- I have to leave something for you to find out on your own, right? Love this issue. Love, love, love. If my posts have you even vaguely intrigued by the Clone Wars comics, buy this one, because it's the longest single issue (it's not an arc) and it stands on its own pretty well. Plus it has Obi-Wan and Anakin kicking ass and taking names, what more do you need? And several space battles! (Why couldn't they have made this into a movie? RotS would have been much improved.)
Next up: the final two Clone Wars TPBs, one of which is actually a mostly post-Clone Wars volume. (Let's put it this way: the last issue is called "Purge." Oh, my poor doomed Jedi.)