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Star Wars: Republic #12
Star Wars: Clone Wars, Volume 3: Last Stand on Jabiim
General Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan Anakin Skywalker find themselves in command of a regiment of Clone Troopers on the muddy battlefields of the rain world of Jabiim. With their supply lines stretched thin and reinforcements unable to land due to the perpetual storms, the Jedi and their army have become easy targets.
Collects Star Wars: Republic #55-59
Collects Star Wars: Republic #55-59
120 pages, Paperback
First published February 24, 2000
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W. Haden Blackman
259 books49 followersW. Haden Blackman is a writer who has long worked in the Star Wars universe. He is also the project lead on the MMO Star Wars: Galaxies and the video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
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September 1, 2013
I hate the clone war dark horse series and I'm stopping here. I got the A'sharad Hett backstory and I'm turning away from the series until I can enjoy it. Don't get me wrong, it's probably good, like characterization, story, plot, suspense, action, ethos, pathos, logos etc. There is just one thing that infuriates me reading this series: How pathetic the Jedi are and how meaningless their deaths are.
It is utterly ridiculous. The force is apparently no ally to any Jedi in the Clone Wars. In fact I'd go so far as to say the force is with the droids it seems, because they evidently are more competent than the "guardians of peace" in the galaxy at this point. Twenty-eight. TWENTY-EIGHT JEDI died in this volume and there was no point in their deaths. No victory, no sacrifice, nothing. It takes twenty-five Jedi to kill a soldier armed only with a sword. That messes with my mind and my preconception about the Force and that is not cool. Maybe its a metaphor about how pointless war is, how no one is immune. But you would honestly think that the force would actually help the Jedi. I just cringe seeing a new Jedi introduced because I know that he or she's going to die guaranteed a few pages later.
This one fact about the Clone Wars makes me truly detest it, and so one star, I didn't like it. The only thing I found good about it was the A'sharad Hete-Anakin Skywalker story. Shed some light on some stuff.
It is utterly ridiculous. The force is apparently no ally to any Jedi in the Clone Wars. In fact I'd go so far as to say the force is with the droids it seems, because they evidently are more competent than the "guardians of peace" in the galaxy at this point. Twenty-eight. TWENTY-EIGHT JEDI died in this volume and there was no point in their deaths. No victory, no sacrifice, nothing. It takes twenty-five Jedi to kill a soldier armed only with a sword. That messes with my mind and my preconception about the Force and that is not cool. Maybe its a metaphor about how pointless war is, how no one is immune. But you would honestly think that the force would actually help the Jedi. I just cringe seeing a new Jedi introduced because I know that he or she's going to die guaranteed a few pages later.
This one fact about the Clone Wars makes me truly detest it, and so one star, I didn't like it. The only thing I found good about it was the A'sharad Hete-Anakin Skywalker story. Shed some light on some stuff.
June 14, 2020
Three stories in this one.
Blood and Rain is really more of a teaser setting up the meat of this volume, which is the middle story and its set piece conflict. That said, I think it does its job fairly well. It builds the intrigue of this alien world, where the flavour of the week is rain. Okay, I mean, that doesn’t sound very exciting. But the near constant rain and storms make conflict a huge drag, especially on the logistics side, so I buy in to the tension that this planet has to offer. The story also continues this series’ trend of grappling with some of the more pertinent ethical questions which are oddly absent from a lot (though not all) Clone Wars novels, by again showing a world which earnestly wants to secede. And finally, it closes with a rather surprising cliffhanger, although I don’t know if I should credit that because we all know, really, what the eventual outcome will be of that. Not a great story, but alright. I’ll call it decent.
Thunder and Lightning is the big one. There were a few things I liked about this one, but more that I didn’t, unfortunately. Things I liked were again, the variety of other Jedi brought to the fore and able to have unexpected stories because they’re not movie protagonists. Also, for once, Anakin shows some care for someone who isn’t himself, Padme, or very begrudgingly Obi-Wan. The aftermath memorial scenes were also lovely and provide his character with just a touch of the much-needed introspection that often feels so lacking with Anakin. However, the down sides, and they are big down sides, are that this story is so relentlessly grim, and we get huge swathes of Jedi dying pretty pointlessly. I’ll be honest, they’re summarily killed off and aren’t given the due they deserve (by that I mean their deaths don’t really serve a purpose as well as their lives aren’t given enough page space to tell us a little story while they are still around), and it really sucks. As if that weren’t enough, some of the artwork is way off. Two of the Padawans are drawn with almost the exact same face, in panels right next to each other. I could only tell them apart due to one having some unique species marking – but their features and expressions were drawn the same and this is so bad. And in another couple of panels, Anakin talks about a brief respite of sun, where the rain clears up… but he’s shown standing in rain just as heavy as before. This comes after a couple of panels with characters in a different but nearby location where the sun is shown clearly dispelling the storm. I think someone messed up here! Anyway, it has a couple of good points, but I’m not really a fan of this one.
The Storm After the Storm is the final story and another short one. This is my pick of the bunch. A’Sharad Hett pretty much saves it, along with any sci fi interest generated from the alien world we find ourselves on. The specifics about the conflict between the Separatists and the Republic are not really explained, and Anakin’s back to being an unlikeable jerk, so they aren’t really the reasons why I enjoyed it.
This is the second volume in a row which has been pretty meh in this series. I remembered liking the series way more than I am right now, so I hope it picks up when I re-read the next volume, either that or my tastes have changed a lot in the intervening years.
5 out of 10
August 29, 2012
La Bataille entre la République et les Séparatistes se transporte maintenant sur la planète pluvieuse Jabiim. Les séparatistes sont menés par le charismatique Alto Stratus et font aux Jedi et leurs clones une guerre sans pitié. Tout va tellement mal que tous les Jedi et leurs Padawans meurent à l'exception d'Anakin. Malheureusement pour lui, son maître Obi-Wan fait parti des disparus. Tout porte à croire que la République subira un revers cinglant.
Pour avoir tout lu la série, je sais que c'est un des sommets de Clone Wars. L'ambiance est très sombre et les choses vont très mal pour les héros. Malgré tous ces malheurs, Anakin sait se démarquer du lot. Il est plus puissant que les autres et c'est très bien exploité. La fragilité mentale de Skywalker est sûrement son point faible et est bien utilisée par l'auteur.
C'est ce type de bande dessinée qui fait que j'adore Star Wars.
Pour avoir tout lu la série, je sais que c'est un des sommets de Clone Wars. L'ambiance est très sombre et les choses vont très mal pour les héros. Malgré tous ces malheurs, Anakin sait se démarquer du lot. Il est plus puissant que les autres et c'est très bien exploité. La fragilité mentale de Skywalker est sûrement son point faible et est bien utilisée par l'auteur.
C'est ce type de bande dessinée qui fait que j'adore Star Wars.
July 26, 2018
I think that Star Wars: Clone Wars, Volume 3: Last Stand on Jabim is probably the best of the Clone Wars graphic novels that I have read this far. It really gets into the absolute horror of what a total civil war entails, with citizens fighting against each other, and each using the atrocities of the other as motivation to keep on fighting.
In retrospect, with the revelation that it was the Sith who were orchestrating the war and directing both sides, this just goes to emphasise how absolutely pointless such a conflict is.
Once again the ranks of the Jedi are decimated, and once again close and republic sympathisers and opponents are mown down without compunction, simply because they have been defined as the enemy. And when, for strategic reasons, the Republic forces are withdrawn, the defending loyalists are left with the realisation that, for all its high ideals, the Republic and the Jedi Order can behave just as capriciously as the Separatists have claimed. This is good, complex stuff for a comic book, and shows the thematic depth of the Clone Wars.
Highly recommended!
In retrospect, with the revelation that it was the Sith who were orchestrating the war and directing both sides, this just goes to emphasise how absolutely pointless such a conflict is.
Once again the ranks of the Jedi are decimated, and once again close and republic sympathisers and opponents are mown down without compunction, simply because they have been defined as the enemy. And when, for strategic reasons, the Republic forces are withdrawn, the defending loyalists are left with the realisation that, for all its high ideals, the Republic and the Jedi Order can behave just as capriciously as the Separatists have claimed. This is good, complex stuff for a comic book, and shows the thematic depth of the Clone Wars.
Highly recommended!
August 20, 2021
Issues #55-58
July 4, 2017
Star Wars Legends Project #122
Background: Last Stand on Jabiim, released in February of 2004, collects issues 55-59 of Republic: Republic: The Battle of Jabiim (4 issues, July-December 2003) was written by Haden Blackman and pencilled by Brian Ching and Republic: Enemy Lines (1 issue, December 2003) was written by John Ostrander with art by Jan Duursema. (Aside from this collective title to that 4-part series, those 4 issues were also individually titled The Rainmakers, Stormchasers, Lightning Rods, and Floodgates, and parts 1 and 2 were collectively retitled Blood and Rain and parts 3 and 4 Thunder and Lightning. Enemy Lines was retitled The Storm After the Storm.) All of them also contributed to Star Wars: Clone Wars, Volume 2: Victories and Sacrifices (my review).
The Battle of Jabiim is set 16 months after the Battle of Geonosis (21 years before the Battle of Yavin), and features Obi-Wan and Anakin. Enemy Lines takes place a few weeks later, and also features Anakin, along with the Tusken Jedi A'Sharad Hett and Ki-Adi-Mundi.
Summary: In The Battle of Jabiim, a large team of Jedi find themselves embroiled in a large-scale battle with Separatist forces and their allies on the rain-battered world of Jabiim, whose weather patterns make landing support or organizing an evacuation nearly impossible. As the Jedi in command are picked off one by one, the mission objectives slowly shift from achieving victory to merely surviving to fight another day.
In Enemy Lines, Anakin, still in turmoil from the events on Jabiim, accompanies Ki-Adi-Mundi and A'Sharad Hett in an assault on the desert world of Aargonar. Trapped behind enemy lines, Anakin and Hett must work together to survive, but Hett's Tusken identity brings Anakin's hatred and prejudice bubbling to the surface, and he is forced to confront his own inner demons as never before.
Review: The Battle of Jabiim is bad news, and not just for the Jedi fighting in it, but also for the reader. It is put together exceptionally poorly, almost to the point of incoherence, hopping around between characters at random without ever properly introducing them and leaving us to put the pieces together, then expecting us to care when they inevitably die off. There are at least two other padawans who closely resemble Anakin and it was difficult at times to tell the three of them apart. I was a good 3/4 of the way through the thing before I realized that the two padawans who weren't Anakin were actually two distinct characters. As much as I like the art in this book in other respects, that's got to be on the artist's head. There's no reason to have 3 white male padawans with the same haircut running around, particularly when 2 of them are completely new characters and confined to this one story so you could draw them however you want.
But the plot is even more incoherent than the characters. The story constantly pretends that there is an actual strategy being employed to this fight, but if there is it isn't even slightly apparent to us. There's no sense at all of this planet's geography or how the forces are moving around each other or clashing. They just seem to hop about at random, fight a bit, and then hop around some more. And, of course, when the rain breaks for the first time in weeks, the Separatists zip in a giant droid army complete with those big old missile launcher things on wheels (which apparently have no trouble zooming around through the supposedly impassable Jabiimi mud), but the Republic sends nothing.
Also, the story is visibly engineered to kill off all of the Jedi Masters in order to create a situation where the Padawans are left to band together and carry on the fight alone. Which is a nice idea, it's just so utterly transparent in its contrivance as to kind of ruin the effect. For one thing, in order to accomplish this set-up, they stick Obi-Wan inside of a fallen walker that explodes in a giant fireball apparently killing him. Of course, there's never any question that he's actually dead, but he simply vanishes from the story completely, believed to be dead by a dozen Jedi, including his own apprentice, as though they wouldn't have sensed through the Force that he was still alive. Utter nonsense.
More annoying still, the big threat to the Jedi is a Jabiimi firebrand named Alto Stratus, a leader who fights with an actual metal sword and shield and is somehow more than a match for a Jedi. He is accompanied by an elite group of commandos called the Nimbus, whose big advantage over the Jedi is, I kid you not, repulsorlift skates that allow them to zip around real quicklike and stuff. What. Even.
Even the one bit of tension or suspense it might otherwise have is drained straight out of it when the Padawans prepare to make their final stand to help cover the evacuation, and Palpatine pops in and orders Anakin to leave them behind and help load the ships. So, a bunch of total throwaway one-off characters and the one character we know survives this story is told to leave? Yeah, they're doomed. But the way the story proceeds makes literally no sense. It goes something like this: "Battle of Jabiim, Day 41" and we see a few pages of action panels and then one or two Jedi bite the dust, then cut to "Battle of Jabiim, Day 42" and repeat. It stretches this out over 4 or 5 days, as though we're expected to believe that the two sides fight each other for approximately 5 minutes out of each day, and then retreat back to their own side to prepare for the next day's 12 panels of fighting or whatever.
And finally, just to add insult to injury, the storyline wraps up with Anakin doing perhaps the least defensible, most contemptible thing I know of pre-Darth Vader Anakin doing, and no one around him reacts in a way that makes any sense at all, least of all Anakin himself (who I don't buy for a second would have behaved as he does for the majority of this story). Really, worst of all is that there are some potentially great characters introduced here, but they're never treated as much more than cannon fodder, which feels like a cheat, and robs the story of the exact emotional weight it was aiming for.
So, just when I'm peeved to the max and ready to write this whole thing off as a wash, along come Ostrander and Duursema and Enemy Lines, and make the whole thing almost worthwhile. It helps a lot that I think A'Sharad Hett is a fantastic character, but even if you somehow disagree on that point, what a great use of that concept, throwing him into a pressure cooker with Anakin on a desert planet. As natives of Tatooine and late-comers to the Jedi Order, they have perhaps more in common than any other Jedi in the order, but Hett is also a potent reminder of Anakin's darkest moment, and the way all of that plays out is just spot-on.
In the end, I'm not sure Enemy Lines totally makes up for The Battle of Jabiim, just because it's so much shorter, but I'd definitely recommend it, at least. Just skip over the first storyline and go straight for the good stuff.
The Battle of Jabiim: D
Enemy Lines: B+
Background: Last Stand on Jabiim, released in February of 2004, collects issues 55-59 of Republic: Republic: The Battle of Jabiim (4 issues, July-December 2003) was written by Haden Blackman and pencilled by Brian Ching and Republic: Enemy Lines (1 issue, December 2003) was written by John Ostrander with art by Jan Duursema. (Aside from this collective title to that 4-part series, those 4 issues were also individually titled The Rainmakers, Stormchasers, Lightning Rods, and Floodgates, and parts 1 and 2 were collectively retitled Blood and Rain and parts 3 and 4 Thunder and Lightning. Enemy Lines was retitled The Storm After the Storm.) All of them also contributed to Star Wars: Clone Wars, Volume 2: Victories and Sacrifices (my review).
The Battle of Jabiim is set 16 months after the Battle of Geonosis (21 years before the Battle of Yavin), and features Obi-Wan and Anakin. Enemy Lines takes place a few weeks later, and also features Anakin, along with the Tusken Jedi A'Sharad Hett and Ki-Adi-Mundi.
Summary: In The Battle of Jabiim, a large team of Jedi find themselves embroiled in a large-scale battle with Separatist forces and their allies on the rain-battered world of Jabiim, whose weather patterns make landing support or organizing an evacuation nearly impossible. As the Jedi in command are picked off one by one, the mission objectives slowly shift from achieving victory to merely surviving to fight another day.
In Enemy Lines, Anakin, still in turmoil from the events on Jabiim, accompanies Ki-Adi-Mundi and A'Sharad Hett in an assault on the desert world of Aargonar. Trapped behind enemy lines, Anakin and Hett must work together to survive, but Hett's Tusken identity brings Anakin's hatred and prejudice bubbling to the surface, and he is forced to confront his own inner demons as never before.
Review: The Battle of Jabiim is bad news, and not just for the Jedi fighting in it, but also for the reader. It is put together exceptionally poorly, almost to the point of incoherence, hopping around between characters at random without ever properly introducing them and leaving us to put the pieces together, then expecting us to care when they inevitably die off. There are at least two other padawans who closely resemble Anakin and it was difficult at times to tell the three of them apart. I was a good 3/4 of the way through the thing before I realized that the two padawans who weren't Anakin were actually two distinct characters. As much as I like the art in this book in other respects, that's got to be on the artist's head. There's no reason to have 3 white male padawans with the same haircut running around, particularly when 2 of them are completely new characters and confined to this one story so you could draw them however you want.
But the plot is even more incoherent than the characters. The story constantly pretends that there is an actual strategy being employed to this fight, but if there is it isn't even slightly apparent to us. There's no sense at all of this planet's geography or how the forces are moving around each other or clashing. They just seem to hop about at random, fight a bit, and then hop around some more. And, of course, when the rain breaks for the first time in weeks, the Separatists zip in a giant droid army complete with those big old missile launcher things on wheels (which apparently have no trouble zooming around through the supposedly impassable Jabiimi mud), but the Republic sends nothing.
Also, the story is visibly engineered to kill off all of the Jedi Masters in order to create a situation where the Padawans are left to band together and carry on the fight alone. Which is a nice idea, it's just so utterly transparent in its contrivance as to kind of ruin the effect. For one thing, in order to accomplish this set-up, they stick Obi-Wan inside of a fallen walker that explodes in a giant fireball apparently killing him. Of course, there's never any question that he's actually dead, but he simply vanishes from the story completely, believed to be dead by a dozen Jedi, including his own apprentice, as though they wouldn't have sensed through the Force that he was still alive. Utter nonsense.
More annoying still, the big threat to the Jedi is a Jabiimi firebrand named Alto Stratus, a leader who fights with an actual metal sword and shield and is somehow more than a match for a Jedi. He is accompanied by an elite group of commandos called the Nimbus, whose big advantage over the Jedi is, I kid you not, repulsorlift skates that allow them to zip around real quicklike and stuff. What. Even.
Even the one bit of tension or suspense it might otherwise have is drained straight out of it when the Padawans prepare to make their final stand to help cover the evacuation, and Palpatine pops in and orders Anakin to leave them behind and help load the ships. So, a bunch of total throwaway one-off characters and the one character we know survives this story is told to leave? Yeah, they're doomed. But the way the story proceeds makes literally no sense. It goes something like this: "Battle of Jabiim, Day 41" and we see a few pages of action panels and then one or two Jedi bite the dust, then cut to "Battle of Jabiim, Day 42" and repeat. It stretches this out over 4 or 5 days, as though we're expected to believe that the two sides fight each other for approximately 5 minutes out of each day, and then retreat back to their own side to prepare for the next day's 12 panels of fighting or whatever.
And finally, just to add insult to injury, the storyline wraps up with Anakin doing perhaps the least defensible, most contemptible thing I know of pre-Darth Vader Anakin doing, and no one around him reacts in a way that makes any sense at all, least of all Anakin himself (who I don't buy for a second would have behaved as he does for the majority of this story). Really, worst of all is that there are some potentially great characters introduced here, but they're never treated as much more than cannon fodder, which feels like a cheat, and robs the story of the exact emotional weight it was aiming for.
So, just when I'm peeved to the max and ready to write this whole thing off as a wash, along come Ostrander and Duursema and Enemy Lines, and make the whole thing almost worthwhile. It helps a lot that I think A'Sharad Hett is a fantastic character, but even if you somehow disagree on that point, what a great use of that concept, throwing him into a pressure cooker with Anakin on a desert planet. As natives of Tatooine and late-comers to the Jedi Order, they have perhaps more in common than any other Jedi in the order, but Hett is also a potent reminder of Anakin's darkest moment, and the way all of that plays out is just spot-on.
In the end, I'm not sure Enemy Lines totally makes up for The Battle of Jabiim, just because it's so much shorter, but I'd definitely recommend it, at least. Just skip over the first storyline and go straight for the good stuff.
The Battle of Jabiim: D
Enemy Lines: B+
July 29, 2019
The problem with the Dark Horse clone wars comics is that they try extra hard to be "dark" and "gritty" and yet consist of 80 percent fighting which makes them very simplistic superhero comics and totally lacking the complexity of the "kids cartoon" which covered the same material. Which is such a shame. Still reading it in German is good practice.
July 18, 2008
I got hooked by the Obi-Wan Kenobi/Asajj Ventress storyline once I read Cestus Deception, so I had to pick up the GNs of this series that continued the story (but skipped the ones that didn't).
January 23, 2025
This is the Comic that I have looking forward to, the two battles that pushed Anakin closer to the Darkside according the amazing ROTS novelization by Matt Stover. There are two parts to this Comic, the Battle of Jabiim and the Battle of Aargonar.
The Battle of Jabiim: Highlights: The gritty style of the artwork capture the brutality of the battle well. I continue to like Alpha. I like the Padawan pack. I love their different personalties and them working together to survive. The conflict between the Jabiimi that support the Seperatist and Republic was intresting . It had strong parallells to the Vietnam war with the republic supporters being screwed in the end. The Seperatist comander was a delighfully wild villanous( Swords really) . The jedi memorial scene was a beautiful moment of Reflection.A'Sharad hett and Ki adi mundi's apperance was nice. ( Obi wan's" death" is providing nice angst for Anakin
Battle of Jabiim : Lowlights: The batttle was somewhat inchorent and was diffucult to figure out what was going on. Characters seemed to jump from place to place, the transitions were jarring, and the time jumps were weird at best . The characters were diffcult to telll apart .There were three blond white male padawans including Anakin who looked almost identical and was very difffcult to tell them apart. Most of the Jedi seem to die ridiculously easily for the sake of the plot and the angst of a high death toll.
The Battle of Argonar highlights: Anakin continues to deal with the grief of losing Obi wan . Personally I l think this version of Obi Wan dying in front of Anakin but isn'nt actually dead storyline , in some ways, is much better than the Rako Hardeen arc which is Canon's version of this plot . That fact that Obi wan's death happened in the middle the of battle , that Obi wan is just one of the many jedi on the Casulty list pushs Anakin's desepration to end the war at any cost and his hatred of the Sepratists . It also does'nt thrown Obi wan's character under the bus because unlike the Rako Hardeen, Obi wan doesnt fake his death or use Anakin and other's grief to sell it, his death was real and the only reason he survived was that he got kidnapped . Personally, I blame Palpatine for the Rako hardeen disaster
Anyway, back to the Argonar comic, I love the idea of Anakin and a tusken Jedi working together and the issues and inner conflict that it caused within Anakin 's were intresting.
A'Sharad hett , the Tusken Jedi was a likable and three dimensional character. It was intresting seeing the similarties between and in another world , they could been friends . Anakin's slow buildup to going psycho on him was well buildup with the allnasty comments and the death glares . As a fan of Anakin Skwalker, Anakin was a speciest dick to him. Also , A'Sharad is hot with those Tattoos . I like the hints he has own inner darkness as well. I like seeing the contrast. Ki adi Mundi was surprisely likable in this one. The cliffhanger that Obi wan was captured by Ventress is good and I'm looking forward to the drama ahead
The Battle of Jabiim: Highlights: The gritty style of the artwork capture the brutality of the battle well. I continue to like Alpha. I like the Padawan pack. I love their different personalties and them working together to survive. The conflict between the Jabiimi that support the Seperatist and Republic was intresting . It had strong parallells to the Vietnam war with the republic supporters being screwed in the end. The Seperatist comander was a delighfully wild villanous( Swords really) . The jedi memorial scene was a beautiful moment of Reflection.A'Sharad hett and Ki adi mundi's apperance was nice. ( Obi wan's" death" is providing nice angst for Anakin
Battle of Jabiim : Lowlights: The batttle was somewhat inchorent and was diffucult to figure out what was going on. Characters seemed to jump from place to place, the transitions were jarring, and the time jumps were weird at best . The characters were diffcult to telll apart .There were three blond white male padawans including Anakin who looked almost identical and was very difffcult to tell them apart. Most of the Jedi seem to die ridiculously easily for the sake of the plot and the angst of a high death toll.
The Battle of Argonar highlights: Anakin continues to deal with the grief of losing Obi wan . Personally I l think this version of Obi Wan dying in front of Anakin but isn'nt actually dead storyline , in some ways, is much better than the Rako Hardeen arc which is Canon's version of this plot . That fact that Obi wan's death happened in the middle the of battle , that Obi wan is just one of the many jedi on the Casulty list pushs Anakin's desepration to end the war at any cost and his hatred of the Sepratists . It also does'nt thrown Obi wan's character under the bus because unlike the Rako Hardeen, Obi wan doesnt fake his death or use Anakin and other's grief to sell it, his death was real and the only reason he survived was that he got kidnapped . Personally, I blame Palpatine for the Rako hardeen disaster
Anyway, back to the Argonar comic, I love the idea of Anakin and a tusken Jedi working together and the issues and inner conflict that it caused within Anakin 's were intresting.
A'Sharad hett , the Tusken Jedi was a likable and three dimensional character. It was intresting seeing the similarties between and in another world , they could been friends . Anakin's slow buildup to going psycho on him was well buildup with the allnasty comments and the death glares . As a fan of Anakin Skwalker, Anakin was a speciest dick to him. Also , A'Sharad is hot with those Tattoos . I like the hints he has own inner darkness as well. I like seeing the contrast. Ki adi Mundi was surprisely likable in this one. The cliffhanger that Obi wan was captured by Ventress is good and I'm looking forward to the drama ahead
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October 28, 2024
1. Esőcsinálók
15 hónappal a geonosisi csata után. A Jabiim állandóan esőverte földjén fellázadnak a jedik és a köztársaság ellen. A parancsnokuk Dooku kezére akarja játszani a bolygot. Kenobiék sorban foglalják el az erődöket, mígnem az egyik csatában felrobbannak egy AT-vel.
2. Viharvadászok
1 héttel az előző után. A Jabiim ostroma alatt minden odaküldött jedi meghalt, már csak pár padavan maradt, akik egy erődben védelmeziik a fennsikot, ahonnan evakuálnak. Az a hir járja, hogy Obi-van meghalt. Anakin még besegít, de aztán Palpatine az evakuációhoz küldi. Viszont nincs elég hajó mindenkinek, így Anakin a klónjait menekíti, a jabiimi szabadságharcosok hoppon maradnak és csalódnak a köztársaságban.
Közben az erődnél is véres harc folyik, végül az összes padavan és a szakadár parancsnok is meghal. Ahogy Anakin mondja:
„A jabiimi csata véget ért. És vesztettünk. Mind vesztettünk.”
New Holstice-re mennek, ahol a sebesülteket kezelik. Anakin aki a Jabiim-on rájön a az Erővel való gégerepesztés titkára, most gyógyitásra akarja ezt használni de nem sikerül. Viszont nagyon szép emlékmű van itt emelve már evezredek ota az elesett jediknek.
„Emlékpillék. Állítólag halhatatlanok. Minden jedi halála után újabb csatlakozik hozzájuk. Az emlékmű pedig immár napról-napra ragyogóbban világít.”
3. Vihar a vihar után
16,5 hónappal Geonosis után az Aargonaron. Határ a Köztársaság és a szeparatisták között. Anakin Hett mesterrel es annak padavanjával elszakad a többiektől a sivatagos bolygón. A padavan meghal. Hett mester egy taszken, ami gondot okoz Anakinnak, amig ki nem derül, hogy ember van a maszk mögött. Anakin felindulásában elmondja neki, mit csinált a Tatuinon, de Hett mester megőrzi a titkat. A köztársaságiak győzelmet aratnak
Az utószóban viszont Kenobit latjuk, aki (persze) nem halt meg, csak elfogták, és most Ventress próbálja megtörni.
/Két dolog van ami zavar ebben a képregény-sorozatban: az egyik, hogy Anakin végig padavan, miközben a tv-sorozatban es a a könyvekben a Geonosis után nem sokkal lovaggá avatják, mivel vészesen megfogyatkoztak a jedik.
A másik, hogy hiányzik Rex jóindulatú, de harcos személyisége Anakin mellől, ill.Alfa aki itt Cody helyett szolgál Kenobi mellett, elég bunkó.
3.dolog: Barris Offe, mint mester?! Come on!/
15 hónappal a geonosisi csata után. A Jabiim állandóan esőverte földjén fellázadnak a jedik és a köztársaság ellen. A parancsnokuk Dooku kezére akarja játszani a bolygot. Kenobiék sorban foglalják el az erődöket, mígnem az egyik csatában felrobbannak egy AT-vel.
2. Viharvadászok
1 héttel az előző után. A Jabiim ostroma alatt minden odaküldött jedi meghalt, már csak pár padavan maradt, akik egy erődben védelmeziik a fennsikot, ahonnan evakuálnak. Az a hir járja, hogy Obi-van meghalt. Anakin még besegít, de aztán Palpatine az evakuációhoz küldi. Viszont nincs elég hajó mindenkinek, így Anakin a klónjait menekíti, a jabiimi szabadságharcosok hoppon maradnak és csalódnak a köztársaságban.
Közben az erődnél is véres harc folyik, végül az összes padavan és a szakadár parancsnok is meghal. Ahogy Anakin mondja:
„A jabiimi csata véget ért. És vesztettünk. Mind vesztettünk.”
New Holstice-re mennek, ahol a sebesülteket kezelik. Anakin aki a Jabiim-on rájön a az Erővel való gégerepesztés titkára, most gyógyitásra akarja ezt használni de nem sikerül. Viszont nagyon szép emlékmű van itt emelve már evezredek ota az elesett jediknek.
„Emlékpillék. Állítólag halhatatlanok. Minden jedi halála után újabb csatlakozik hozzájuk. Az emlékmű pedig immár napról-napra ragyogóbban világít.”
3. Vihar a vihar után
16,5 hónappal Geonosis után az Aargonaron. Határ a Köztársaság és a szeparatisták között. Anakin Hett mesterrel es annak padavanjával elszakad a többiektől a sivatagos bolygón. A padavan meghal. Hett mester egy taszken, ami gondot okoz Anakinnak, amig ki nem derül, hogy ember van a maszk mögött. Anakin felindulásában elmondja neki, mit csinált a Tatuinon, de Hett mester megőrzi a titkat. A köztársaságiak győzelmet aratnak
Az utószóban viszont Kenobit latjuk, aki (persze) nem halt meg, csak elfogták, és most Ventress próbálja megtörni.
/Két dolog van ami zavar ebben a képregény-sorozatban: az egyik, hogy Anakin végig padavan, miközben a tv-sorozatban es a a könyvekben a Geonosis után nem sokkal lovaggá avatják, mivel vészesen megfogyatkoztak a jedik.
A másik, hogy hiányzik Rex jóindulatú, de harcos személyisége Anakin mellől, ill.Alfa aki itt Cody helyett szolgál Kenobi mellett, elég bunkó.
3.dolog: Barris Offe, mint mester?! Come on!/
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 12, 2024
I’d heard about this comic on YouTube, so I thought I’d check it out. This is a third volume of the comics covering the Clone Wars (in what is now “Star Wars Legends” since the Disney purchase); I haven’t read volumes one and two, but I was hoping that I was familiar enough with the universe that I would be okay. And I mostly was.
The whole idea of Jabiim is that it was a particularly brutal campaign in the war that Anakin took part in, and it pushed him further into the Dark Side. Which… is unfortunate, yes, but I think it touches on a thing that the Disney Star Wars isn’t that good at: the horror of the Clone Wars. Some of it comes up in “The Clone Wars”, but overall, it’s kind of odd that we’re constantly being told that the war is pushing the Jedi further from where they’re supposed to be when we don’t really see that in canon?
Here, yeah, no, it’s obvious. They’re fighting an unwinnable war on a planet that does not want them there, and in the end Anakin has to make a decision that doesn’t make anyone on the side of the Republic look good. The enemy commander is bragging about how many Jedi padawans he’s murdered. The Jedi themselves are getting lost from their way in the conflict. It’s rough, and it FEELS like a war story.
[Did I mention that this is the author who did the critically-acclaimed run on “Suicide Squad” back in the day?]
A war story that’s missing parts, though. It’s probably because I’m missing a few comic issues or something, but there are bits of story referred to, that we don’t actually see in this trade paperback. Some of those things are quite important (like everyone thinks Obi-Wan is dead??). We also cut from Jabiim to another campaign.
One in which Anakin is partnered with Jedi Master A’Sharad Hett–who himself is Tusken, which obviously A Problem for Anakin, given, well, his mother and all. Also, hey! Master Hett! I know you… from later in the timeline. A bit unexpected for him to pop up here.
I want to look up the rest of the comics, though I think they might be a bit difficult to track down (at least, in physical form). They sound like they’ll be rewarding, though, if not exactly happy SW stories.
The whole idea of Jabiim is that it was a particularly brutal campaign in the war that Anakin took part in, and it pushed him further into the Dark Side. Which… is unfortunate, yes, but I think it touches on a thing that the Disney Star Wars isn’t that good at: the horror of the Clone Wars. Some of it comes up in “The Clone Wars”, but overall, it’s kind of odd that we’re constantly being told that the war is pushing the Jedi further from where they’re supposed to be when we don’t really see that in canon?
Here, yeah, no, it’s obvious. They’re fighting an unwinnable war on a planet that does not want them there, and in the end Anakin has to make a decision that doesn’t make anyone on the side of the Republic look good. The enemy commander is bragging about how many Jedi padawans he’s murdered. The Jedi themselves are getting lost from their way in the conflict. It’s rough, and it FEELS like a war story.
[Did I mention that this is the author who did the critically-acclaimed run on “Suicide Squad” back in the day?]
A war story that’s missing parts, though. It’s probably because I’m missing a few comic issues or something, but there are bits of story referred to, that we don’t actually see in this trade paperback. Some of those things are quite important (like everyone thinks Obi-Wan is dead??). We also cut from Jabiim to another campaign.
One in which Anakin is partnered with Jedi Master A’Sharad Hett–who himself is Tusken, which obviously A Problem for Anakin, given, well, his mother and all. Also, hey! Master Hett! I know you… from later in the timeline. A bit unexpected for him to pop up here.
I want to look up the rest of the comics, though I think they might be a bit difficult to track down (at least, in physical form). They sound like they’ll be rewarding, though, if not exactly happy SW stories.
August 24, 2017
Last Stand on Jabiim - 1 stars
I'm not sure if this was just a poor outline or what. They're going for a real dreary trench warfare tone here, with lots of senseless death and tragedy, so they pump up the roster with a ton of two-bit Jedi, mostly Padawans. They use small moments of friendship and romance to get investment quickly but none of them really feel convincing. The art is dreary to match the tone, with a constant rain and a blue color palette. On the other hand there's an oddly quirky cloud motif (Sirrus, Alto Stratus, Nimbus) that doesn't match the tone well at all.
There's a big missed opportunity here to explore some of the context for the war. There are almost no droids here, so it's just Jedi and clones fighting local freedom fighters, and their rhetoric is left unchallenged by even a basic explanation of the Republic's strategic goals here. It's not clear why they are willing to invest so many Jedi lives or what's at stake when they lose. It's tonally depressing but has no interest in even giving any meat to support that flavor.
Enemy Lines - 2 stars
Putting Hett and Anakin together in stressful circumstances is a good idea, but it never feels like any writers know what to do with Anakin's character development other than reference/regurgitate his movie stuff, which is all that happens here. Hett is good in handling him and putting him down (and he sort of shirks a larger responsibility to actually intervene here, which is kinda interesting) but Anakin doesn't behave with much worth seeing.
I'm not sure if this was just a poor outline or what. They're going for a real dreary trench warfare tone here, with lots of senseless death and tragedy, so they pump up the roster with a ton of two-bit Jedi, mostly Padawans. They use small moments of friendship and romance to get investment quickly but none of them really feel convincing. The art is dreary to match the tone, with a constant rain and a blue color palette. On the other hand there's an oddly quirky cloud motif (Sirrus, Alto Stratus, Nimbus) that doesn't match the tone well at all.
There's a big missed opportunity here to explore some of the context for the war. There are almost no droids here, so it's just Jedi and clones fighting local freedom fighters, and their rhetoric is left unchallenged by even a basic explanation of the Republic's strategic goals here. It's not clear why they are willing to invest so many Jedi lives or what's at stake when they lose. It's tonally depressing but has no interest in even giving any meat to support that flavor.
Enemy Lines - 2 stars
Putting Hett and Anakin together in stressful circumstances is a good idea, but it never feels like any writers know what to do with Anakin's character development other than reference/regurgitate his movie stuff, which is all that happens here. Hett is good in handling him and putting him down (and he sort of shirks a larger responsibility to actually intervene here, which is kinda interesting) but Anakin doesn't behave with much worth seeing.
April 3, 2023
Star Wars The Clone Wars Volume 3: Last Stand on Jabiim contains Republic: Issues 55-59, with the first four issues being The Battle of Jabiim (55-56: Blood and Rain, 57-58: Thunder and Lightning) and the last being a follow-up story (59: The Storm After the Storm). They take place between 15 months and 16.5 months BBY after the Battle of Geonosis.
This was an excellent run of comics, what with the Republic coming to Jabiim, not to free it from the Confederacy, but to claim dominion of the planet and its resources no matter what the citizens say. It was powerful getting to see all these Jedi fight together, many of them Padawans, and the price they ultimately have to pay. It was really interesting when the Jedi finally came across inhabitants of the planets, for they got to see how they reacted to Jedi and it was not what they expected. Anakin also uses a particular favored move for the first time.
The Storm After the Storm was a fabulous comic. Anakin had to work together with A’Sharad Hett, the Tusken Raider Jedi, and thus had to confront all his feelings and thoughts about Tuskens and about what he did on Tatooine after his mother’s death. It was a really character-driven issue and the ending questions that A’Sharad poses and Anakin’s answer left me speechless.
I would completely recommend these issues that continue The Clone Wars run of comics. They really show what the war was like and the true cost, not for the Republic itself, but for the Jedi.
This was an excellent run of comics, what with the Republic coming to Jabiim, not to free it from the Confederacy, but to claim dominion of the planet and its resources no matter what the citizens say. It was powerful getting to see all these Jedi fight together, many of them Padawans, and the price they ultimately have to pay. It was really interesting when the Jedi finally came across inhabitants of the planets, for they got to see how they reacted to Jedi and it was not what they expected. Anakin also uses a particular favored move for the first time.
The Storm After the Storm was a fabulous comic. Anakin had to work together with A’Sharad Hett, the Tusken Raider Jedi, and thus had to confront all his feelings and thoughts about Tuskens and about what he did on Tatooine after his mother’s death. It was a really character-driven issue and the ending questions that A’Sharad poses and Anakin’s answer left me speechless.
I would completely recommend these issues that continue The Clone Wars run of comics. They really show what the war was like and the true cost, not for the Republic itself, but for the Jedi.
February 21, 2023
George Lucas once said the Clone Wars were just a footnote in the story of Anakin Skywalker but this volume is a good reason why that can't and shouldn't be the case. Caught without Obi-Wan or any proper Master on hand, he and a group of other Padawans have to make due in what's the most brutal bit of fighting depicted in the clone wars.
Unlike TCW where the war is way too spit-polished and one-sided in favor of the Republic, Jabiim is the WW1 scenario. The story and art do a great job of showing the endless mud, grime, and misery of a planet caught between two superpowers and its own local civil war. The losses are big and the gains are nothing. Some will say its too dark and dreary for an SW story but I disagree. This is a significant event in Anakin's story that shows him just how far gone the Republic is and how, despite all his potential and power, he will eventually lose and lose utterly and he can't accept that.
The flaws are that more time should have been given to the Padawan group around him. They get some token characterization and despite the meaninglessness of their sacrifice, they do go out true to themselves as Jedi. But the effect of their deaths on Anakin and the audience would've been stronger if more downtime was devoted to characterizing them or maybe even utilizing more bit Jedi introduced in the previous volumes.
Unlike TCW where the war is way too spit-polished and one-sided in favor of the Republic, Jabiim is the WW1 scenario. The story and art do a great job of showing the endless mud, grime, and misery of a planet caught between two superpowers and its own local civil war. The losses are big and the gains are nothing. Some will say its too dark and dreary for an SW story but I disagree. This is a significant event in Anakin's story that shows him just how far gone the Republic is and how, despite all his potential and power, he will eventually lose and lose utterly and he can't accept that.
The flaws are that more time should have been given to the Padawan group around him. They get some token characterization and despite the meaninglessness of their sacrifice, they do go out true to themselves as Jedi. But the effect of their deaths on Anakin and the audience would've been stronger if more downtime was devoted to characterizing them or maybe even utilizing more bit Jedi introduced in the previous volumes.
February 16, 2024
Amazing story!
This story is important for Anakin Skywalker’s development, the two most vital things that turn Anakin to the Darkside is his mother’s death and his response to his visions of Padme dying. It could be argued what he experiences here, could also be the third hidden moment that helps his fall to the Darkside as well.
The battle of Jabbim is a tough battle fought in mud and rain, with countless casualties. Anakin is fighting with Obi-Wan, but when Obi-Wan is apparently killed. He must fight with the remaining Padawans and continue on his own. Away from his master, Anakin gets more reckless and dangerous and he must learn to let go and focus on the mission.
The other half of this book is his mission to the planet Aargonar with A’Sharad Hett (who becomes a powerful Sith Lord in the Legacy comics 130 years after ROTJ) a Tuskin raider Jedi. Anakin must learn to trust Hett and see him as a Jedi, and not just a Tuskin. He struggles to do this due to his own mother dying after being kidnapped by Tuskins during the events of Attack of the Clones.
This series is amazing, the art work is fantastic! It’s gritty, it’s dark, and the tension is very high. Love seeing more clone wars battles, especially the battles that are going sour and show the real horror of war. Lots of amazing moments between Anakin and great foreshadowing and hints to his fall to the dark side!
This story is important for Anakin Skywalker’s development, the two most vital things that turn Anakin to the Darkside is his mother’s death and his response to his visions of Padme dying. It could be argued what he experiences here, could also be the third hidden moment that helps his fall to the Darkside as well.
The battle of Jabbim is a tough battle fought in mud and rain, with countless casualties. Anakin is fighting with Obi-Wan, but when Obi-Wan is apparently killed. He must fight with the remaining Padawans and continue on his own. Away from his master, Anakin gets more reckless and dangerous and he must learn to let go and focus on the mission.
The other half of this book is his mission to the planet Aargonar with A’Sharad Hett (who becomes a powerful Sith Lord in the Legacy comics 130 years after ROTJ) a Tuskin raider Jedi. Anakin must learn to trust Hett and see him as a Jedi, and not just a Tuskin. He struggles to do this due to his own mother dying after being kidnapped by Tuskins during the events of Attack of the Clones.
This series is amazing, the art work is fantastic! It’s gritty, it’s dark, and the tension is very high. Love seeing more clone wars battles, especially the battles that are going sour and show the real horror of war. Lots of amazing moments between Anakin and great foreshadowing and hints to his fall to the dark side!
June 15, 2023
Although I have yet to finish my re-read of this particular series, I can tell you that is the best volume - and that it contains the best stories ever released during the run of the Republic comics. They still blow me away. I find myself thinking about these pages at odd moments, even years later, so of course I was delighted when Jabiim appeared in the Disney Obi-Wan series. Well, it wasn't quiiiite the Jabiim I remembered. I remember rain and blood and despair. Anyway, I can't recommend this volume enough.
December 4, 2022
As a kid this was intense and badass to read. Even if I'm older and in general I think Dark Horse's Star Wars comics from this era awkwardly tried too hard to be edgy and mature, this volume did help sell the feeling that we were getting closer to Anakin's fall to the Dark Side. Some intense battle sequences and the cool introduction of a Tusken Raider Jedi.
June 3, 2022
Had this described to me as the Clone Wars's Vietnam War moment. Yep. Only wish it was a bit longer, though.
July 25, 2022
This one was a surprisingly insightful story about Anakin, and, it was incredibly moving at time.
August 30, 2022
Got from school library
Anakin Skywalker RACIST??? (Not Clickbait)
Anakin Skywalker RACIST??? (Not Clickbait)
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August 5, 2024
Where the hell was this in the show? You could have kept this, Disney.
February 24, 2025
A bunch of Jedi die in a hopeless cause while Obi-Wan is thought dead and Anakin is on his own. It's alright.
March 12, 2025
Some great character moments for Anakin in particular in this volume.
March 18, 2025
The perfect Clone Wars story. It's superb.
August 13, 2025
If you want to see Alpha 17 do more action and kick@$$, read this book. It’s super interesting to see republic vs another faction.
October 30, 2025
This comic unlocked my past lives Vietnam memories in like the age of 7
November 12, 2025
A excellent comic! Anakin being racist to Tusken’s is epic
July 31, 2018
This volume contains issues 55-59 of the Star Wars: Republic comics. It is the "Battle of Jabiim" parts 1-4, and "Enemy Lines." From the title, it is obvious that the major battle of Jabiim is the highlight. This is an iconic battle on a planet that had no faith in the Republic and seeks to destroy the Jedi regiment that has been on the planet for some time. It is a constant blood bath between the clone army and the residents of the planet, and being trapped with no reinforcements due to a major storm make it nearly impossible to find victory. When reinforcements are able to arrive, it is too late, and Anakin must leave everyone behind who is not at the rendezvous point, even his master, Obi-wan, who is listed as missing in action. We also see an interesting reflective story where Anakin must work with a Jedi who is one of the Sand People. The end has a very intriguing lead-in to the next volume, showing that Obi-wan was captured by Ventress!
Finally, the Clone Wars is starting to heat up. We get more visual and conflict on Anakin and Obi-wan, and some of the more devastating things they have to deal with. The ending of this volume actually has me excited for the next one, something the previous volumes lacked--no cliffhanger, no lead-in.
Finally, the Clone Wars is starting to heat up. We get more visual and conflict on Anakin and Obi-wan, and some of the more devastating things they have to deal with. The ending of this volume actually has me excited for the next one, something the previous volumes lacked--no cliffhanger, no lead-in.
June 2, 2012
These comics gain extra brownie points for daring to go where Lucas' prequels and the otherwise excellent Clone Wars TV series won't, thanks to the "this needs to be suitable for kids" mentality. The Last Stand on Jabiim is an excellent mult-part story that sees Anakin suffer great loss as the republic are defeated, fellow Padawans die and he can neither handle the resulting fallout or deal with his prejudices and hate. War is about death and loss and these comics show Jedi being courageous, heroic and dying. They also show Jedi - particularly Anakin - baulking under the pressure and acting spitefully.
It also helps that for The Clone Wars are visualised in a way that is brutal and real rather than childish and stylised. Sadly there are creaks in the storytelling. I would have loved to have had a better sense of who the Padawans were in the last stand and what drove them, but this was done half-heartedly. The story all too often shifts abrupt focus and the last issue feels like a too-quick coda rather than the culmination of events and would have made an excellent additional five part series.
Still, this series has cranked it up a notch and I'm keen to read on.
It also helps that for The Clone Wars are visualised in a way that is brutal and real rather than childish and stylised. Sadly there are creaks in the storytelling. I would have loved to have had a better sense of who the Padawans were in the last stand and what drove them, but this was done half-heartedly. The story all too often shifts abrupt focus and the last issue feels like a too-quick coda rather than the culmination of events and would have made an excellent additional five part series.
Still, this series has cranked it up a notch and I'm keen to read on.
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