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Star Wars: Republic #17
Star Wars: Clone Wars, Volume 9: Endgame
Witness the untold stories of the Jedi who took a last stand against Emperor Palpatine in the moments during, and immediately after, the events in Revenge of the Sith! Watch Darth Vader undertake a Jedi "purge" of his own in the hunt for Obi-Wan Kenobi!
In the jungles of the Wookiee homeworld Kashyyyk, Quinlan Vos wages a battle of impossible odds against his own troops to protect his loved ones. On the icy Outer Rim world of Toola, Jedi Master Kai Huddora takes a terrified Padawan into his charge after her own master falls to Order 66. Amidst the forests of New Plymto, Dass Jennir finds himself in league with a band of rebels he'd led attacks against only days before. Not all Jedi are scattered across the galaxy however, and soon, a brave few will plot to topple Sith rule-by setting a trap for the newly unveiled Darth Vader!
• Collects Star Wars: Republic 79-83 and the one shot Star Wars: Purge
• This volume proves that while the Clone Wars have ended, the fight for the fate of the Jedi has just begun!
In the jungles of the Wookiee homeworld Kashyyyk, Quinlan Vos wages a battle of impossible odds against his own troops to protect his loved ones. On the icy Outer Rim world of Toola, Jedi Master Kai Huddora takes a terrified Padawan into his charge after her own master falls to Order 66. Amidst the forests of New Plymto, Dass Jennir finds himself in league with a band of rebels he'd led attacks against only days before. Not all Jedi are scattered across the galaxy however, and soon, a brave few will plot to topple Sith rule-by setting a trap for the newly unveiled Darth Vader!
• Collects Star Wars: Republic 79-83 and the one shot Star Wars: Purge
• This volume proves that while the Clone Wars have ended, the fight for the fate of the Jedi has just begun!
144 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 26, 2006
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John Ostrander
2,087 books170 followersJohn Ostrander is an American writer of comic books. He is best known for his work on Suicide Squad, Grimjack and Star Wars: Legacy, series he helped create.
Originally an actor in a Chicago theatre company, Ostrander moved into writing comics in 1983. His first published works were stories about the character "Sargon, Mistress of War", who appeared the First Comics series Warp!, based on a series of plays by that same Chicago theatre company. He is co-creator of the character Grimjack with Timothy Truman, who originally appeared in a back up story in the First Comics title, Starslayer, before going on to appear in his own book, again published by First Comics in the mid 1980s. First Comics ceased publication in 1991, by which time Ostrander was already doing work for other comics companies (his first scripts for DC Comics were published in 1986).
Prior to his career in comic books, Ostrander studied theology with the intent of becoming a Catholic priest, but now describes himself as an agnostic. His in-depth explorations of morality were later used in his work writing The Spectre, a DC Comics series about the manifestation of the wrath of God. His focus on the character's human aspect, a dead police detective from the 1930s named Jim Corrigan, and his exploration of moral and theological themes brought new life to a character often thought of as impossible to write. He has also worked on Firestorm, Justice League, Martian Manhunter, Manhunter, Suicide Squad, and Wasteland for DC.
Originally an actor in a Chicago theatre company, Ostrander moved into writing comics in 1983. His first published works were stories about the character "Sargon, Mistress of War", who appeared the First Comics series Warp!, based on a series of plays by that same Chicago theatre company. He is co-creator of the character Grimjack with Timothy Truman, who originally appeared in a back up story in the First Comics title, Starslayer, before going on to appear in his own book, again published by First Comics in the mid 1980s. First Comics ceased publication in 1991, by which time Ostrander was already doing work for other comics companies (his first scripts for DC Comics were published in 1986).
Prior to his career in comic books, Ostrander studied theology with the intent of becoming a Catholic priest, but now describes himself as an agnostic. His in-depth explorations of morality were later used in his work writing The Spectre, a DC Comics series about the manifestation of the wrath of God. His focus on the character's human aspect, a dead police detective from the 1930s named Jim Corrigan, and his exploration of moral and theological themes brought new life to a character often thought of as impossible to write. He has also worked on Firestorm, Justice League, Martian Manhunter, Manhunter, Suicide Squad, and Wasteland for DC.
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June 26, 2020
Divided into three stories, Hidden Enemy, Into the Unknown, and Purge, events in this final volume of the Clone Wars graphic novels actually take place in the immediate aftermath of Revenge of the Sith.
Quinlan Vos’ story has been one of the standout plot threads from this series – well, most of the time – and in my opinion he is given a satisfying conclusion here. It may be somewhat unexpected, flouting prequel era Jedi Order rules, but to be honest I always thought those rules were one, stupid, and two, came out of nowhere and went against hints dropped in the Expanded Universe post-Return of the Jedi about the Order of before, and three, was surprised more Jedi didn’t try to debate or stand up against them anyway. So hey, it’s not like I have any quibbles against the way it all goes down and is wrapped up.
Another plus in my opinion is that we see Jedi surviving. It always seemed unrealistic to me that literally every Jedi except Yoda and Obi-Wan is killed – and, once again, the Expanded Universe had hints and references that more did survive and hide, which is far more plausible. Here, that much more logical outcome is given life. A diverse few, who I can imagine striking out on much more isolated and hidden paths, in a strange way getting back to the roots of the Jedi – not as an institution supporting a very specific government, but as a band of nomads doing good wherever it is needed.
I did feel that finishing the series off with the short story Purge left things on a bit of a sour note. There’s no real time to get to know the Jedi involved, and the ending is relentlessly grim. I think it would’ve been better to finish off with Vos’ story or Into the Unknown, both of which, while dark, do offer a tiny bit of hope.
My favourite – or perhaps I should say least favourite – moment in this book was Vos comforting Aayla as a child over the death of her Felucian cat-bunny T’da. I mean, I love cats, and I love bunnies, they’re fluffy and cute as hell, what’s not to like about a sci-fi creature combining the two. And Aayla is one of this series’ strongest characters, with this earnest streak that evidently goes back to childhood. I’m not crying, you’re crying. But seriously, that scene, and the one where poor Noirah Na gets told to just go off by herself and forget her childhood in the Jedi Temple… oh man. I think I have a piece of grit in my eye. This is probably the most poignant culmination of the whole series. It’s been entertaining and interesting at times, for sure, better than some of the novels, better in many ways than the actual films, but this is the only time it truly tugged on my heartstrings and evoked an emotional response. The end of this era is just so damn dark and serious, it’s hard not to feel at least a little sorry at some of the more gutting and unfair moments.
This re-read has been up and down, overall. I discovered that there were some entries into this series – mainly Volumes 2 and 3 – that I didn’t like nearly as much as I remembered. I’ve been toying with the idea of removing those two entries from my personal canon cut, but now I’ve come to the end I’ve decided to keep them in. While not as good, they provide a lot of context, and they aren’t egregiously bad, and mostly the series does hold up as an interesting look at the adventures of other Jedi during the Clone Wars.
8 out of 10
June 13, 2012
Ugh. Order 66 and the Jedi purge. Thanks for that Lucas. Revenge of the Sith went from bad to worse and not even Stover's brilliant novelisation could entirely remove the bad taste of it from my mouth. "The Rise of Lord Vader" novel didn't do much to help either.
Well, thanks Ostrander and Quinlan Vos for giving us a readable and entertaining Order 66 story. It's mostly what you'd expect and there are few narrative surprises here, but thanks to the history that we've had with Vos up to this point Ostrander is able to find some fun ways of presenting it and some emotional hooks that I hadn't been expecting.
*spoiler*
I was grateful that Vos survived and that he and his child lived to fight another day, although as yet there have been no more EU stories written about the characters. It shouldn't matter but somehow it seemed right that Vos made it and that he's swanning around the Star Wars universe during the Original Trilogy, being awesome. In this volume we also see him further overcome his struggle with the dark side .. a nice way to finish off the whole Clone War saga (although slightly extraneous maybe)
*end of spoilers*
The other stuff collected here is pretty good also, particularly the first two part adventure, featuring another bunch of Jedi escaping the clones in their own manner ... in a story that leading into a separate Graphic Novel follow up series. "Purge" was a little weak, but how cool can you really make "Darth Vader killing a bunch of Jedi?" There's no narrative hook in this 25 page one-shot.
Well, thanks Ostrander and Quinlan Vos for giving us a readable and entertaining Order 66 story. It's mostly what you'd expect and there are few narrative surprises here, but thanks to the history that we've had with Vos up to this point Ostrander is able to find some fun ways of presenting it and some emotional hooks that I hadn't been expecting.
*spoiler*
I was grateful that Vos survived and that he and his child lived to fight another day, although as yet there have been no more EU stories written about the characters. It shouldn't matter but somehow it seemed right that Vos made it and that he's swanning around the Star Wars universe during the Original Trilogy, being awesome. In this volume we also see him further overcome his struggle with the dark side .. a nice way to finish off the whole Clone War saga (although slightly extraneous maybe)
*end of spoilers*
The other stuff collected here is pretty good also, particularly the first two part adventure, featuring another bunch of Jedi escaping the clones in their own manner ... in a story that leading into a separate Graphic Novel follow up series. "Purge" was a little weak, but how cool can you really make "Darth Vader killing a bunch of Jedi?" There's no narrative hook in this 25 page one-shot.
March 22, 2025
19 BBY
This is the last installment of the Star Wars: Clone Wars graphic novels. It contains "Into the Unknown" parts 1 and 2, "Hidden Enemy" parts 1, 2, and 3, and "Purge," which I have reviewed as a part of its own graphic novel compilation previously. This volume has a lot going on and is vastly interesting. We get to see a closer look at the Jedi perspective during the execution of Order 66. Quinlan is a major character in this event. When Quinlan realizes what is happening, he aims to escape for his life, thinking of his wife (?) and unborn child. When an unexpected ally tells the troopers that he killed Quinlan to cover for him, the two escape and eventually make it to the remaining Jedi. Not much else is known of what happens to Quinlan in later years, but there is an instance where Han encounters someone fitting his description...
The other issues in this volume ("Into the Unknown") features three Jedi, a master and his Padawan who leave their lightsabers and the Jedi path to the past and assimilate into society, and a Jedi who aims to reestablish ties to a race that has lost great economic opportunities to the Chancellor's ploys, not quite finished being a Jedi yet.
This volume was a phenomenal finish and leaves the reader itching for more about the few Jedi survivors.
July 29, 2018
A fantastic end to this Legends telling of the Clone Wars, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Volume 9: Endgame tells the story of Order 66 from the perspective of some Jedi who were not depicted in Revenge of the Sith, and then goes beyond to show the first days of the ongoing Jedi purge in the early Galactic Empire.
It was fitting to see the fate of Quinlan Vos, as his arc has been central to these graphic novels (he looks as if he goes full Tarzan on Kashyyyk), and we are introduced to a number of lesser Jedi (or at least Jedi whom we have not previously seen portrayed) who somehow managed to escape the initial enforcement of Order 66. I particularly enjoyed the introduction of Jedi Master Dass Jennir and Nosaurian separatist fighter Bomo Greenbark (I believe that they have continuing adventures in the Dark Times comic, which I shall get on to review at some point).
The artwork in this volume is absolutely wonderful - there are a couple of pages that absolutely epitomise the Star Wars galaxy to me - huge crowds of bizarre aliens in a chaotic marketplace with Imperial troopers looking on with blasters at the ready. Also, there is one section on the planet Eriadu at the beginning of the last story, Purge that looks just like the Ring of Kafrene sequence from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and I love it.
And speaking of Purge, seeing the iconic Darth Vader face a whole bunch of Jedi masters (and tear through them until he uses his own severed robot hand still clutching a cortosis blade to gut an opponent) is a fitting introduction to the ruthlessness of the new Sith lord.
All told - I have really enjoyed this re-read of these comic books. Even though they are no longer canon, they tell a coherent story of the Jedi point of view during the Clone Wars, without focusing overmuch on Obi-Wan and Anakin, which is refreshing.
I would definitely recommend anyone who is interested in reading more about this era to give them a look - there are only a few places that explicitly contradict canon, and with a bit of "unreliable history" jiggery-pokery you might even consider them to be in-universe myths told by Imperial subjects during the Dark Times about the last days of the Jedi.
It was fitting to see the fate of Quinlan Vos, as his arc has been central to these graphic novels (he looks as if he goes full Tarzan on Kashyyyk), and we are introduced to a number of lesser Jedi (or at least Jedi whom we have not previously seen portrayed) who somehow managed to escape the initial enforcement of Order 66. I particularly enjoyed the introduction of Jedi Master Dass Jennir and Nosaurian separatist fighter Bomo Greenbark (I believe that they have continuing adventures in the Dark Times comic, which I shall get on to review at some point).
The artwork in this volume is absolutely wonderful - there are a couple of pages that absolutely epitomise the Star Wars galaxy to me - huge crowds of bizarre aliens in a chaotic marketplace with Imperial troopers looking on with blasters at the ready. Also, there is one section on the planet Eriadu at the beginning of the last story, Purge that looks just like the Ring of Kafrene sequence from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and I love it.
And speaking of Purge, seeing the iconic Darth Vader face a whole bunch of Jedi masters (and tear through them until he uses his own severed robot hand still clutching a cortosis blade to gut an opponent) is a fitting introduction to the ruthlessness of the new Sith lord.
All told - I have really enjoyed this re-read of these comic books. Even though they are no longer canon, they tell a coherent story of the Jedi point of view during the Clone Wars, without focusing overmuch on Obi-Wan and Anakin, which is refreshing.
I would definitely recommend anyone who is interested in reading more about this era to give them a look - there are only a few places that explicitly contradict canon, and with a bit of "unreliable history" jiggery-pokery you might even consider them to be in-universe myths told by Imperial subjects during the Dark Times about the last days of the Jedi.
July 5, 2018
This is a brilliant volume covering one of the most pivotous times of the Jedi Order. This is told in three parts:
Into the Unknown: This introduces the Jedi Dass Jennir as he is finds himself joining forces with the very people he was leading his former clone troopers against. It’s a gentle beginning to the fantastic Dark Times series. This tale is also interspersed with following other Jedi and the different decisions they make in order to survive.
Hidden Enemy : This features the excellent Quinlan Vos who narrowly survives the attack upon himself by his clone troopers. A haunting struggle for life while mourning the death of Aayla Secura coupled with the comic relief of the Devaronian Villie. Edge of the seat story-telling with a real payoff at the end. Wondrously drawn too.
Purge: I have previously read this earlier in the year in the graphic novel on the same name. A bunch of Jedi lure Darth Vader into a trap in order to destroy him. It doesn’t go well for them. A good, action-filled story, well illustrated and with the untimely ending of numerous characters that had featured throughout the series.
Into the Unknown: This introduces the Jedi Dass Jennir as he is finds himself joining forces with the very people he was leading his former clone troopers against. It’s a gentle beginning to the fantastic Dark Times series. This tale is also interspersed with following other Jedi and the different decisions they make in order to survive.
Hidden Enemy : This features the excellent Quinlan Vos who narrowly survives the attack upon himself by his clone troopers. A haunting struggle for life while mourning the death of Aayla Secura coupled with the comic relief of the Devaronian Villie. Edge of the seat story-telling with a real payoff at the end. Wondrously drawn too.
Purge: I have previously read this earlier in the year in the graphic novel on the same name. A bunch of Jedi lure Darth Vader into a trap in order to destroy him. It doesn’t go well for them. A good, action-filled story, well illustrated and with the untimely ending of numerous characters that had featured throughout the series.
September 9, 2024
This is a review of the series as a whole
Overall pretty good, some great some not so great. I think it evens out to solid three. If goodreads would let me it would be a 3.5. The best arc was the Jabiim one
Overall pretty good, some great some not so great. I think it evens out to solid three. If goodreads would let me it would be a 3.5. The best arc was the Jabiim one
August 1, 2018
Star Wars Legends Project #169
Background: Endgame, released in July of 2006, collects issues 79-83 of the Republic series: Into the Unknown (2 issues, November-December 2005) and Hidden Enemy (3 issues, January-February 2006). It also includes the single-issue Purge, first in a series of the same title, but that issue was also included as the beginning of the trade paperback Purge, and I'll review it with the others in that collection. Into the Unknown was written by Welles Hartley with art by Doug Wheatley. Hidden Enemy was written by John Ostrander and drawn by Jan Duursema, whose contributions to Star Wars comics are of course significant and numerous.
Into the Unknown begins with the execution of Order 66 and Hidden Enemy takes place just before, during, and after (19 years before the Battle of Yavin). The main characters of the former are Jedi Masters Dass Jennir and Kai Hudorra along with the Nosaurian Separatist Bomo Greenbark. The story is set mostly on New Plympto, Toola, and Coruscant. The main characters in the latter are Quinlan Vos, Luminara Unduli, and the Devaronian scoundrel Vilmarh Grahrk. The setting is mostly on Kashyyyk.
Summary: In Into the Unknown, a pair of Jedi Masters must improvise under very different but equally difficult circumstances when their own troops turn on them with lethal force. One finds himself looking to the enemy for help while the other must use all his resources and considerable guile to smuggle the young Padawan in his care off-world alive.
In Hidden Enemy, it is time for Quinlan Vos's story to end, though not at the hands of the clone troopers under his command. Trapped on Kashyyyk and on the run, Vos must rely on a none-too-trustworthy sometimes ally as he continues to fight for the Wookiees and searches for a way to reconnect with the people who matter to him most.
Review: I very unexpectedly enjoyed the first few issues of this collection even more than the Quinlan Vos bit. Typically, stories that introduce new Jedi characters who seem likely to die, or at the very least to never appear again, have been my least favorite of the Clone Wars-era stories, but these both stood out. I think it's because most of those stories rely on non-stop Jedi action to keep you interested and don't bother to invest much in their characters, while these stories did the opposite. I also particularly liked the art style and it seemed very well-suited to the story. It had a certain grittiness and realism (though I wouldn't exactly call it "gritty" or "realistic" per se) that really worked for me.
I also liked how different the stories were from each other. Dass Jennir looks like an elf general from the Lord of the Rings movies, and his story, set on a heavily-wooded planet, almost had an epic fantasy feel to it. Meanwhile, Kai Hudorra is a shaggy Bothan navigating a bleak, industrialized town on a freezing ice world where it seems to always be night. Nevertheless, Hartley managed to find moments of humor, particularly in Hudorra's story.
Between this story and Republic Commando: Order 66, a stark picture is starting to emerge of how the Jedi Order crumbled in the wake of Order 66. Ultimately, as you would expect, quite a large number of Jedi survived the initial purge, but just as they failed to anticipate Palpatine's manipulations, they are slow to grasp how completely the galaxy has changed for them overnight. Most Jedi still feel sercure in their abilities in the Force, and in the knowledge that they are fighting a good fight. This leads many to foolishly return to Coruscant, despite being warned away, and to challenge the new regime both together in small bands, and even as individuals. Palpatine has arranged events so perfectly that most of the galaxy has completely turned on them, but if that weren't the case, many Jedi repeatedly fail both to follow the Council's final order to scatter and hide, and to band together in a way that could present an effective challenge to the new Empire.
Anyway, the conclusion to Vos's story was immensely satisfying as well, though it didn't have much of the fireworks or depth or intensity that I've come to expect from his stories. I don't want to say it was a let-down, because that wouldn't be fair, but the Quinlan Vos thread is easily the greatest ongoing storyline of this era and the conclusion of it didn't quite meet the hype for me. Nevertheless, it's obviously not to be missed.
A-
Background: Endgame, released in July of 2006, collects issues 79-83 of the Republic series: Into the Unknown (2 issues, November-December 2005) and Hidden Enemy (3 issues, January-February 2006). It also includes the single-issue Purge, first in a series of the same title, but that issue was also included as the beginning of the trade paperback Purge, and I'll review it with the others in that collection. Into the Unknown was written by Welles Hartley with art by Doug Wheatley. Hidden Enemy was written by John Ostrander and drawn by Jan Duursema, whose contributions to Star Wars comics are of course significant and numerous.
Into the Unknown begins with the execution of Order 66 and Hidden Enemy takes place just before, during, and after (19 years before the Battle of Yavin). The main characters of the former are Jedi Masters Dass Jennir and Kai Hudorra along with the Nosaurian Separatist Bomo Greenbark. The story is set mostly on New Plympto, Toola, and Coruscant. The main characters in the latter are Quinlan Vos, Luminara Unduli, and the Devaronian scoundrel Vilmarh Grahrk. The setting is mostly on Kashyyyk.
Summary: In Into the Unknown, a pair of Jedi Masters must improvise under very different but equally difficult circumstances when their own troops turn on them with lethal force. One finds himself looking to the enemy for help while the other must use all his resources and considerable guile to smuggle the young Padawan in his care off-world alive.
In Hidden Enemy, it is time for Quinlan Vos's story to end, though not at the hands of the clone troopers under his command. Trapped on Kashyyyk and on the run, Vos must rely on a none-too-trustworthy sometimes ally as he continues to fight for the Wookiees and searches for a way to reconnect with the people who matter to him most.
Review: I very unexpectedly enjoyed the first few issues of this collection even more than the Quinlan Vos bit. Typically, stories that introduce new Jedi characters who seem likely to die, or at the very least to never appear again, have been my least favorite of the Clone Wars-era stories, but these both stood out. I think it's because most of those stories rely on non-stop Jedi action to keep you interested and don't bother to invest much in their characters, while these stories did the opposite. I also particularly liked the art style and it seemed very well-suited to the story. It had a certain grittiness and realism (though I wouldn't exactly call it "gritty" or "realistic" per se) that really worked for me.
I also liked how different the stories were from each other. Dass Jennir looks like an elf general from the Lord of the Rings movies, and his story, set on a heavily-wooded planet, almost had an epic fantasy feel to it. Meanwhile, Kai Hudorra is a shaggy Bothan navigating a bleak, industrialized town on a freezing ice world where it seems to always be night. Nevertheless, Hartley managed to find moments of humor, particularly in Hudorra's story.
Between this story and Republic Commando: Order 66, a stark picture is starting to emerge of how the Jedi Order crumbled in the wake of Order 66. Ultimately, as you would expect, quite a large number of Jedi survived the initial purge, but just as they failed to anticipate Palpatine's manipulations, they are slow to grasp how completely the galaxy has changed for them overnight. Most Jedi still feel sercure in their abilities in the Force, and in the knowledge that they are fighting a good fight. This leads many to foolishly return to Coruscant, despite being warned away, and to challenge the new regime both together in small bands, and even as individuals. Palpatine has arranged events so perfectly that most of the galaxy has completely turned on them, but if that weren't the case, many Jedi repeatedly fail both to follow the Council's final order to scatter and hide, and to band together in a way that could present an effective challenge to the new Empire.
Anyway, the conclusion to Vos's story was immensely satisfying as well, though it didn't have much of the fireworks or depth or intensity that I've come to expect from his stories. I don't want to say it was a let-down, because that wouldn't be fair, but the Quinlan Vos thread is easily the greatest ongoing storyline of this era and the conclusion of it didn't quite meet the hype for me. Nevertheless, it's obviously not to be missed.
A-
December 16, 2024
Execute Order 66.
(Spoilers to follow)
For a time, it feels like things have turned around. Count Dooku is dead and shortly general Grievous will be as well, the Separatist Confederacy is losing on every front and the Republic is headed toward a time of peace, supposedly. Quinlan Vos finds himself on the Wookie homeworld of Kashyyk, where he’s beginning to feel the healing effects of the Force, his mind more at peace after all the darkness he’s had to endure in the previous stories.
The reader knows what happens on Kashyyk. Revenge of the Sith showed some of the fighting. Chewbacca appeared in the movie and in this book as well, but his appearance isn’t the one I cared about. That honour goes to Villie the Devaronian, double-dealing, horn-headed, old companion to Vos who makes his return here, the one recurring character from Ostrander’s run on the book who wasn’t involved in volume 8. He’s trying his best to be a good guy, having befriended the Wookies. His very best, hokay?
There is some fighting, there are plot points that give meaning to the fighting, character interactions that give it all stakes, but the reader will go in knowing not much of it will matter in the end. The clone troopers are given Order 66 and instantly turn on the Jedi, and then the conflict changes completely. It doesn’t take long for Vos to adapt to the changes after his own troops try to kill him, though.
It feels rushed. Vos figures out exactly what’s going on through leaps in logic that stretch credibility. That aside, what Vos does with this information is what matters: injured and cut off from allies he begins a small-scale guerrilla war against his former troops. Imagine John Rambo with a lightsabre and access to the Force and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what it’s like. Glorious. I would read a whole book of nothing but this, but it’s only a small segment here.
Thing is, there is no more victory possible for him. The canon of the movies dictates that the Sith have won, and the Empire will reign until Luke Skywalker brings it down. Where does that leave characters like Vos? Should he perish in the jungles of Kashyyk, just another victim of the Sith?
As far as the Empire is concerned, he does just that. Aayla Secura is also dead, off-page, which upsets me (though her death is shown in the movie). And so many others. But there are those who live. The hope for a future together with Khaleen and their child, a future where is no longer a Jedi, is something Vos expressed at the end of the previous volume, and though it comes after horrific loss rather than bittersweet victory, it still comes.
And with that, the story of Quinlan Vos draws to a close. The book then turns to different characters with a different creative team, showing a few Jedi who survive the initial purge, how they do so, how they make their way through the Galaxy and what they plan to do with their lives now that they are outlaws, everything they fought for robbed from them.
There are a few different ways the surviving Jedi choose to handle their new situation, and one of them is to charge the enemy, lightsabre swinging, in a fit of rage and sorrow. This way makes a survivor no longer a survivor. Others choose to hide, to throw their lightsabres away and sever ties between master and padawan, to lead a new life. Others still find new causes to fight, ironically taking the side of their former enemies and fighting their own former troops.
Without the support of the Republic, a Jedi can no longer afford pride. Instigating bar fights with mind control tricks to obfuscate your own presence, picking pockets for cash, even deciding to make a living as a gambler through the unfair advantage provided by the Force are things resorted to during this exodus. We’ve seen Jedi, Quinlan Vos especially, resort to underhanded tactics to make his way before, but those were acts that served some greater purpose. Here, they are forced into it as a necessity for survival. How can they do so without losing their dignity? The war changed the Jedi, this is a common observation the various masters made during the comic’s run, and those changes were rarely seen as positive by the Jedi themselves. Is this destitution just another aspect of the Sith’s revenge? Still, it shows that life goes on, for some. And so long as it does, there might be… a new hope?
The final story, Purge, features Darth Vader weaking havoc. A group of surviving Jedi come together to discuss the potential future of their order and what actions they can take against the Sith, but this meeting becomes a battleground with the newest member of the Sith, whose identity as Anakin Skywalker is completely unknown to them. “Death walking” one of the Jedi calls him. He comes alone, facing eight Jedi, lightsabres drawn.
Darth Vader does not need a lightsabre to kill a Jedi. He doesn’t even need to use the Force, just plain old regular force. One mechanical hand is enough to snap a neck. Beastly. He’s not invincible, he’s not invulnerable, and he may well have lost the fight here, but a being as powerful as he is, driven by anger, is a frightful sight to behold, even injured and disarmed (pardon the pun) his is a commanding presence.
It’s not the death of these Jedi that the “purge” in the story’s title refers to, though. What led Vader down to this ambush he was very close not to walking away from was a personal connection to Obi-wan Kenobi, a grudge. The Vader seen here is not quite the Vader of the original trilogy, though his appearance might imply otherwise. The emperor is wise to this and encourages him to purge the lingering connection he still has to his life as Anakin Skywalker. The Sith don’t take on new names as a mere gesture, it represents their abandonment of who they once were, and from a certain point of view might even be seen as killing their past selves. How often before in this comic has the importance of those connections been emphasized by the Jedi?
Palpatine is confident in his victory as he tells Vader to forget Kenobi, confident in his accomplishments. He no longer fears the Jedi. He has grown overconfident, the very weakness that Luke recognizes in Return of the Jedi. A cycle has been closed, and I’m glad I stuck along for the ride. The comics have enriched the experience of the films in surprising ways, and there is depth of characterization here and interrogation of the philosophies involved that the movies barely had time for.
(Spoilers to follow)
For a time, it feels like things have turned around. Count Dooku is dead and shortly general Grievous will be as well, the Separatist Confederacy is losing on every front and the Republic is headed toward a time of peace, supposedly. Quinlan Vos finds himself on the Wookie homeworld of Kashyyk, where he’s beginning to feel the healing effects of the Force, his mind more at peace after all the darkness he’s had to endure in the previous stories.
The reader knows what happens on Kashyyk. Revenge of the Sith showed some of the fighting. Chewbacca appeared in the movie and in this book as well, but his appearance isn’t the one I cared about. That honour goes to Villie the Devaronian, double-dealing, horn-headed, old companion to Vos who makes his return here, the one recurring character from Ostrander’s run on the book who wasn’t involved in volume 8. He’s trying his best to be a good guy, having befriended the Wookies. His very best, hokay?
There is some fighting, there are plot points that give meaning to the fighting, character interactions that give it all stakes, but the reader will go in knowing not much of it will matter in the end. The clone troopers are given Order 66 and instantly turn on the Jedi, and then the conflict changes completely. It doesn’t take long for Vos to adapt to the changes after his own troops try to kill him, though.
It feels rushed. Vos figures out exactly what’s going on through leaps in logic that stretch credibility. That aside, what Vos does with this information is what matters: injured and cut off from allies he begins a small-scale guerrilla war against his former troops. Imagine John Rambo with a lightsabre and access to the Force and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what it’s like. Glorious. I would read a whole book of nothing but this, but it’s only a small segment here.
Thing is, there is no more victory possible for him. The canon of the movies dictates that the Sith have won, and the Empire will reign until Luke Skywalker brings it down. Where does that leave characters like Vos? Should he perish in the jungles of Kashyyk, just another victim of the Sith?
As far as the Empire is concerned, he does just that. Aayla Secura is also dead, off-page, which upsets me (though her death is shown in the movie). And so many others. But there are those who live. The hope for a future together with Khaleen and their child, a future where is no longer a Jedi, is something Vos expressed at the end of the previous volume, and though it comes after horrific loss rather than bittersweet victory, it still comes.
And with that, the story of Quinlan Vos draws to a close. The book then turns to different characters with a different creative team, showing a few Jedi who survive the initial purge, how they do so, how they make their way through the Galaxy and what they plan to do with their lives now that they are outlaws, everything they fought for robbed from them.
There are a few different ways the surviving Jedi choose to handle their new situation, and one of them is to charge the enemy, lightsabre swinging, in a fit of rage and sorrow. This way makes a survivor no longer a survivor. Others choose to hide, to throw their lightsabres away and sever ties between master and padawan, to lead a new life. Others still find new causes to fight, ironically taking the side of their former enemies and fighting their own former troops.
Without the support of the Republic, a Jedi can no longer afford pride. Instigating bar fights with mind control tricks to obfuscate your own presence, picking pockets for cash, even deciding to make a living as a gambler through the unfair advantage provided by the Force are things resorted to during this exodus. We’ve seen Jedi, Quinlan Vos especially, resort to underhanded tactics to make his way before, but those were acts that served some greater purpose. Here, they are forced into it as a necessity for survival. How can they do so without losing their dignity? The war changed the Jedi, this is a common observation the various masters made during the comic’s run, and those changes were rarely seen as positive by the Jedi themselves. Is this destitution just another aspect of the Sith’s revenge? Still, it shows that life goes on, for some. And so long as it does, there might be… a new hope?
The final story, Purge, features Darth Vader weaking havoc. A group of surviving Jedi come together to discuss the potential future of their order and what actions they can take against the Sith, but this meeting becomes a battleground with the newest member of the Sith, whose identity as Anakin Skywalker is completely unknown to them. “Death walking” one of the Jedi calls him. He comes alone, facing eight Jedi, lightsabres drawn.
Darth Vader does not need a lightsabre to kill a Jedi. He doesn’t even need to use the Force, just plain old regular force. One mechanical hand is enough to snap a neck. Beastly. He’s not invincible, he’s not invulnerable, and he may well have lost the fight here, but a being as powerful as he is, driven by anger, is a frightful sight to behold, even injured and disarmed (pardon the pun) his is a commanding presence.
It’s not the death of these Jedi that the “purge” in the story’s title refers to, though. What led Vader down to this ambush he was very close not to walking away from was a personal connection to Obi-wan Kenobi, a grudge. The Vader seen here is not quite the Vader of the original trilogy, though his appearance might imply otherwise. The emperor is wise to this and encourages him to purge the lingering connection he still has to his life as Anakin Skywalker. The Sith don’t take on new names as a mere gesture, it represents their abandonment of who they once were, and from a certain point of view might even be seen as killing their past selves. How often before in this comic has the importance of those connections been emphasized by the Jedi?
Palpatine is confident in his victory as he tells Vader to forget Kenobi, confident in his accomplishments. He no longer fears the Jedi. He has grown overconfident, the very weakness that Luke recognizes in Return of the Jedi. A cycle has been closed, and I’m glad I stuck along for the ride. The comics have enriched the experience of the films in surprising ways, and there is depth of characterization here and interrogation of the philosophies involved that the movies barely had time for.
August 30, 2017
Loyalties - 2 stars
Sagoro Autem's story is not one I needed more of (and I was kinda surprised he ended up in the Navy for the Siege of Saleucami) and this little bounty hunter chase is not a very inspired conclusion to it. The dug's knives in particular look like toys--not sure how the art can be so bad in places but so good in others (the ships and architecture look great here). It's a window into the purges of the new government but it doesn't make them feel very interesting--there are much more clever stories to be told in this period, although maybe Autem, as a Jedi loyalist, wouldn't have been the man to get one idk.
Into the Unknown - 4 stars
Nominally the end of Republic but in practice the start of Dark Times. That series has long been one of my favorites and these issues don't disappoint. The Clone Wars had potential, but they were a mess. The Dark Times skates into the open wound of Order 66, but is uncluttered by the mass of plotlines that came before. I think without context, lone Jedi evading stormtroopers and striking against the Empire or just making a living and doing good might feel like a standard adventure story (I guess like ANH does, a bit) but coming out of the Clone Wars there is a tangible sense of loss and impotence that is really rich. They are still powerful, but they find all the infrastructure and respect they relied on is swept from beneath their feet. There is much (unfulfilled) room for introspection in the Clone Wars, but after it, when there is no agency, just grief, there is little room for anything else. It opens the door to all these small, local stories that the Clone Wars had no time for.
The art in these volumes matches the tonal shift, like someone turned off a harsh white light and left only a fire. The colors are moody and shadowed, the white of Stormtroopers standing out all the more against the softer textures and richer color palette. There are tons of aliens, lots of nice scenes of crowds and cities and shops, all the places the series had otherwise moved too fast to dwell on. Lots of wonderful things here and I'm eager to move into Dark Times proper once again.
Hidden Enemy - 3 stars
The Clone Wars have a lot of promise, from fleshing out Anakin's character and his relationships with Obi-wan, Palpatine, and Padme, to exploring how the Jedi Order responds to extreme duress and manipulation, to the slow frog-in-a-pot shift of public opinion against the Jedi and toward the tyranny of the Empire, to the tragedy of the Jedi coming to respect and love the Clones and then find themselves betrayed in both literal and philosophical ways. Republic tries to deliver on some of those, and compared to the full Clone Wars project (now a messy palimpsest of tones and storylines and even major players) these comics are remarkably well-planned and coherent for a multi-author project that came out over almost a decade. It's almost novellic, with one set of major characters providing the narrative backbone, a few recurring subplots that flesh out other dimensions, and cameos that build and link into storylines developed in novels, TV shows, etc. Many of these never end up going anywhere, or feel like they don't because they end in other storylines (Aurra Sing was built up a lot, as were Durge and Ventress and Hett, though I think Hett's thing ends well given the way it picks up elsewhere).
Each story is a mess of colliding characters and concepts set up or foreshadowing other media, and while it is impressively choreographed at times, it rarely manages to feel much. The storylines are too short, too busy looking backward and forward to give the downtime to characters that really need it. They often echo segments in the films, but too often these are in the specifics of action set pieces and the context for quests. What too few (and this is to some extent true of EU material generally--KOTOR being the exception that proves the point) ape from the films is their overlooked emphasis on quiet bonding time. Chewie and R2 play dejarik, Leia and Han kiss while fixing the Falcon, Padme and Anakin take a literal vacation from the plot. Quin and his crew simply never have character moments like this in the interstices, or they don't have enough. And the arcs that were the best in Republic were those that did have those moments--Master Zao in Darkness, the Jedi hang-out sesh in Stark Hyperspace War. If we had seen Quin bonding with Aayla, with Tholme, with Villie, more overtly, I think this whole thing would be vastly improved.
So these last issues of Quin's arc try to draw a melancholy epilogue on his Clone Wars story, but they don't really succeed for the same reasons these storylines never succeeded. Quin is too tough and tight-lipped and brooding for me to really care how this ends; I'm far more interested in the Kashyyk stuff here but while the authors draw on it a bit, they kind of leave it hanging.
Sagoro Autem's story is not one I needed more of (and I was kinda surprised he ended up in the Navy for the Siege of Saleucami) and this little bounty hunter chase is not a very inspired conclusion to it. The dug's knives in particular look like toys--not sure how the art can be so bad in places but so good in others (the ships and architecture look great here). It's a window into the purges of the new government but it doesn't make them feel very interesting--there are much more clever stories to be told in this period, although maybe Autem, as a Jedi loyalist, wouldn't have been the man to get one idk.
Into the Unknown - 4 stars
Nominally the end of Republic but in practice the start of Dark Times. That series has long been one of my favorites and these issues don't disappoint. The Clone Wars had potential, but they were a mess. The Dark Times skates into the open wound of Order 66, but is uncluttered by the mass of plotlines that came before. I think without context, lone Jedi evading stormtroopers and striking against the Empire or just making a living and doing good might feel like a standard adventure story (I guess like ANH does, a bit) but coming out of the Clone Wars there is a tangible sense of loss and impotence that is really rich. They are still powerful, but they find all the infrastructure and respect they relied on is swept from beneath their feet. There is much (unfulfilled) room for introspection in the Clone Wars, but after it, when there is no agency, just grief, there is little room for anything else. It opens the door to all these small, local stories that the Clone Wars had no time for.
The art in these volumes matches the tonal shift, like someone turned off a harsh white light and left only a fire. The colors are moody and shadowed, the white of Stormtroopers standing out all the more against the softer textures and richer color palette. There are tons of aliens, lots of nice scenes of crowds and cities and shops, all the places the series had otherwise moved too fast to dwell on. Lots of wonderful things here and I'm eager to move into Dark Times proper once again.
Hidden Enemy - 3 stars
The Clone Wars have a lot of promise, from fleshing out Anakin's character and his relationships with Obi-wan, Palpatine, and Padme, to exploring how the Jedi Order responds to extreme duress and manipulation, to the slow frog-in-a-pot shift of public opinion against the Jedi and toward the tyranny of the Empire, to the tragedy of the Jedi coming to respect and love the Clones and then find themselves betrayed in both literal and philosophical ways. Republic tries to deliver on some of those, and compared to the full Clone Wars project (now a messy palimpsest of tones and storylines and even major players) these comics are remarkably well-planned and coherent for a multi-author project that came out over almost a decade. It's almost novellic, with one set of major characters providing the narrative backbone, a few recurring subplots that flesh out other dimensions, and cameos that build and link into storylines developed in novels, TV shows, etc. Many of these never end up going anywhere, or feel like they don't because they end in other storylines (Aurra Sing was built up a lot, as were Durge and Ventress and Hett, though I think Hett's thing ends well given the way it picks up elsewhere).
Each story is a mess of colliding characters and concepts set up or foreshadowing other media, and while it is impressively choreographed at times, it rarely manages to feel much. The storylines are too short, too busy looking backward and forward to give the downtime to characters that really need it. They often echo segments in the films, but too often these are in the specifics of action set pieces and the context for quests. What too few (and this is to some extent true of EU material generally--KOTOR being the exception that proves the point) ape from the films is their overlooked emphasis on quiet bonding time. Chewie and R2 play dejarik, Leia and Han kiss while fixing the Falcon, Padme and Anakin take a literal vacation from the plot. Quin and his crew simply never have character moments like this in the interstices, or they don't have enough. And the arcs that were the best in Republic were those that did have those moments--Master Zao in Darkness, the Jedi hang-out sesh in Stark Hyperspace War. If we had seen Quin bonding with Aayla, with Tholme, with Villie, more overtly, I think this whole thing would be vastly improved.
So these last issues of Quin's arc try to draw a melancholy epilogue on his Clone Wars story, but they don't really succeed for the same reasons these storylines never succeeded. Quin is too tough and tight-lipped and brooding for me to really care how this ends; I'm far more interested in the Kashyyk stuff here but while the authors draw on it a bit, they kind of leave it hanging.
June 16, 2023
Quinlan's story ends here in... a semi-satisfactory manner. He enjoyed certain protections from The Flannelled One and let's be honest - he's simply too cool to die (heck, in the Disney canon he's apparently still roaming the galaxy during the Kenobi series). Quinlan's survival I'm okay with, especially given the official Lucas seal of approval, but why the other two? Tholme and T'ra Saa aren't even that interesting. This volume ends with the first of the Purge one-shots, which doesn't feel like it belongs in these pages.
January 10, 2021
Another great volume. I was kinda wrong about the previous volume being the wrapup of the Quinlan Vos story, and this volume is very satisfying. It always sucks seeing or reading about Order 66 and this is no exception. The stories are well-done, though, with lovely art as well. The stories about various Order 66 survivors were something I hadn't seen before and they are very touching and emotional. The Purge story is ok and definitely shows that the Jedi Order was not free of idiots, lol.
April 20, 2024
Endgame looks at the immediate fallout of Episode 3, specifically what happens to the Jedi in the wake of Order 66. Through following a trilogy of narratives, Ostrander's work feels a touch episodic and may have benefited from following a single plot. Despite this, however, Endgame demonstrates a greater sense of destruction to the Jedi order and the Republic that is only implied in the films and more recent TV shows.
February 18, 2019
Good comic book
May 31, 2025
Order 66 survivors, the conclusion of Quinlan Vos' story, and Vader vs eight Jedi. Awesome stuff.
September 18, 2022
19 BBY. The final book of the Clone Wars series.
As the war reaches its end the Jedi find themselves betrayed by their own troops and either killed or driven into hiding. This book explores how some of the Jedi, including Quinlan Vos, manage to escape the fall of the Jedi Order.
I think it was in Matthew Stover's Episode III novelisation where it was said that Order 66 is not the end of the Clone Wars but it is its climax. That's an idea that explored in detail here as the Jedi face the emotional and practical fallout of having been betrayed by trusted allies and having lost the war they fought so hard in. As well as that theme, this book is literally the climax of Quinlan Vos' story arc told across years of the 'Republic' comics line, proving a satisfying endpoint for the character that's been through so much (I can't say I particularly like Quin as a character, but I can't deny the effectiveness of this story).
On top of Quinlan's story, we're also introduced to several new Jedi who face the trials of Order 66. I particularly liked Dass Jennir and have similarly enjoyed his further exploits as told in the 'Dark Times' series.
Finally, we get the 'Purge' one-shot in which a group of fugitive Jedi (mostly familiar faces - including the deep-cut appearance of Sia-Lan Wezz) attempt to lure Darth Vader into a trap and destroy him. It's a brilliant exploration of how lost the Jedi have become as well as a nice chance to see Vader at his fiercest.
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As the war reaches its end the Jedi find themselves betrayed by their own troops and either killed or driven into hiding. This book explores how some of the Jedi, including Quinlan Vos, manage to escape the fall of the Jedi Order.
I think it was in Matthew Stover's Episode III novelisation where it was said that Order 66 is not the end of the Clone Wars but it is its climax. That's an idea that explored in detail here as the Jedi face the emotional and practical fallout of having been betrayed by trusted allies and having lost the war they fought so hard in. As well as that theme, this book is literally the climax of Quinlan Vos' story arc told across years of the 'Republic' comics line, proving a satisfying endpoint for the character that's been through so much (I can't say I particularly like Quin as a character, but I can't deny the effectiveness of this story).
On top of Quinlan's story, we're also introduced to several new Jedi who face the trials of Order 66. I particularly liked Dass Jennir and have similarly enjoyed his further exploits as told in the 'Dark Times' series.
Finally, we get the 'Purge' one-shot in which a group of fugitive Jedi (mostly familiar faces - including the deep-cut appearance of Sia-Lan Wezz) attempt to lure Darth Vader into a trap and destroy him. It's a brilliant exploration of how lost the Jedi have become as well as a nice chance to see Vader at his fiercest.
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October 3, 2012
Endgame est le dernier volume de la série Clone Wars. Ça se passe en même temps que La Revanche des Sith. Quinlan Vos est sur Kashyyk pour aider les Wookies lorsque les Clones se retournent contre le Jedi. Vos survit de justesse mais il est gravement blessé. Malgré cela, un grand désir de vengeance l'envahi. Il veut se venger du commandant clone qui l'a trahi.
La deuxième partie est sur quelques Jedi qui ont survécu à la purge et qui doivent se refaire une nouvelle vie. C'est un énorme défi pour eux car ils n'ont connu que l'ordre Jedi dans leur vie.
La troisième partie implique un groupe de Jedi qui tend un piège contre Darth Vader mais ils ne savent pas à quel point le Seigneur Sith est fort.
Ma grosse peine à la fin de cette série c'est qu'il n'y aura plus d'aventure de Quinlan Vos. J'adorais ce Jedi et son apprentie, Aayla Secura. Au moins, la fin était à la hauteur de mes attentes. La série Clone Wars était vraiment très bien réussie. Presque toutes les histoires étaient excellentes. Une grande partie de cette série était pas John Ostrander. J'ai bien hâte de lire Star Wars : Legacy qu'il a aussi écrit.
La deuxième partie est sur quelques Jedi qui ont survécu à la purge et qui doivent se refaire une nouvelle vie. C'est un énorme défi pour eux car ils n'ont connu que l'ordre Jedi dans leur vie.
La troisième partie implique un groupe de Jedi qui tend un piège contre Darth Vader mais ils ne savent pas à quel point le Seigneur Sith est fort.
Ma grosse peine à la fin de cette série c'est qu'il n'y aura plus d'aventure de Quinlan Vos. J'adorais ce Jedi et son apprentie, Aayla Secura. Au moins, la fin était à la hauteur de mes attentes. La série Clone Wars était vraiment très bien réussie. Presque toutes les histoires étaient excellentes. Une grande partie de cette série était pas John Ostrander. J'ai bien hâte de lire Star Wars : Legacy qu'il a aussi écrit.
November 14, 2013
The conclusion of the tale of Quinlan Vos as he finishes his involvement in the Clone Wars and in the Jedi Order. I really loved that he was able to fulfill so much and as Forest Gump would say that is all I have to say about that. Other two major arcs in the story conclude the Jedi Order's existence, whether dead or alive some chose to go with a fight and others do not. Feigning loyalty to the Empire many decide to live. Using the disbanding of the order as a retirement in force. Some become productive citizens, raise families, destroy their old lightsabers and replace them with blasters maybe fight back by becoming bounty hunters or mercenaries. That is the Jedi's victory. To live and I surely do hope that of the hundred Jedi that survived that they lived to see Palpatine defeated. A-
February 1, 2014
Now this maybe the reason why I am so tired in the morning.
I will admit that I have yet to fully explore the world of star wars graphic novels however this was an enjoyable introduction (and yes I do have the previous 8 volumes just this one was sold as a standalone book and in some lists is not even treated as volume 9). Anyway there are really several unconnected stories in this book - they are all based through or just after the events of Revenge of the Sith and as such all have a pretty dark tone. It does explain (well at least name drop) many of the characters you know so well and their fates but also shows that the Jedi order was not as successfully eradicated as suggested. The artwork varies from story to story as you can imagine but they are all of a very high quality. In hindsight I should have started from book one but then again when have I been conventional in my reading.
I will admit that I have yet to fully explore the world of star wars graphic novels however this was an enjoyable introduction (and yes I do have the previous 8 volumes just this one was sold as a standalone book and in some lists is not even treated as volume 9). Anyway there are really several unconnected stories in this book - they are all based through or just after the events of Revenge of the Sith and as such all have a pretty dark tone. It does explain (well at least name drop) many of the characters you know so well and their fates but also shows that the Jedi order was not as successfully eradicated as suggested. The artwork varies from story to story as you can imagine but they are all of a very high quality. In hindsight I should have started from book one but then again when have I been conventional in my reading.
July 13, 2014
Spoiler alert: The worst part of all of the Clone Wars stories is getting close to characters you know are.going to die during the execution of Order 66. Aayla Secura is definitely one character that I wish was somehow revived, even if she was never mentioned again in any novel or comic.
That being said, I am so so glad that Quinlan Vos made it through, especially after the revelation of the impending birth of his child. He's a guy who has clearly been through hell and back MANY times since his first appearance, and it's nice to know that despite the horrible end of the Jedi Order, he got his own little happy ending, reminding readers that even the darkness of defeat is temporary, and the next generation of Jedi will eventually return.
Great conclusion to the series.
That being said, I am so so glad that Quinlan Vos made it through, especially after the revelation of the impending birth of his child. He's a guy who has clearly been through hell and back MANY times since his first appearance, and it's nice to know that despite the horrible end of the Jedi Order, he got his own little happy ending, reminding readers that even the darkness of defeat is temporary, and the next generation of Jedi will eventually return.
Great conclusion to the series.
July 29, 2014
While the entire build-up of the Star Wars: Clone Wars graphic comics (and also the animated series) was incredible, none took the cake of climax as well as the final chapter of this final issue of the Clone Wars did. It follows the events of Order 66 and what I loved most was how it focused on the remaining and lesser known surviving Jedi and their motivations to survive either for themselves or for the dead Jedi Order. A chapter is dedicated to our long-following favorite (anti)hero Quinlan Vos and his conclusion. The final chapter featuring Darth Vader however, was gold.
December 7, 2015
Começa com um magnífico «Count Dooku is dead» e até na historieta do ex-dark-jedi se safa bem (atente-se que aqui há um mega-soft-spot para tudo o que meta a Order 66).
Mas a jóia da coroa é a história do meio. Fabulesca, ora sublime, ora desencantada, com um Bomo Greenbark a quase matar as saudades que se tem do Marn Hierogryph e uma arte que trata de intemporalizar um segmento muito concreto do princípio dos mais dark times da Galáxia.
Mas a jóia da coroa é a história do meio. Fabulesca, ora sublime, ora desencantada, com um Bomo Greenbark a quase matar as saudades que se tem do Marn Hierogryph e uma arte que trata de intemporalizar um segmento muito concreto do princípio dos mais dark times da Galáxia.
June 3, 2012
This story is an aftermath of the clone wars, addressing the various ways in which the surviving Jedi responded to the betrayal enacted by the clone troopers. This is a very humanising story which replaces jedi ideals over compromises and survival. It's a sad tale and everyone is dirtied from the aftermath of the events in ROTS: Jedi, Sith and Clone.
September 6, 2013
Set during and after the time when clones started killing jedi. There's some nice survival stories, especially the Vos one, think die hard in the jungle. It shows that more jedi's than you think survived the cull. The Darth Vader story is a bit inconsequential, which is a shame because he's on the cover. A good read.
February 21, 2016
Star Wars Clone Wars was a comic like book. It's pretty good but I didn't love it. I could see my little brother reading this book. This book is filled with pictures and laid out just like a comic book. It's really long and has cool pictures. I can see someone between the ages of 8 and 12 reading this book. Lots of people love Star Wars I've just never been quite a big fan of it.
July 9, 2015
Actual Rating: 3 1/2 stars.
First story was the best: exciting and action-packed with a nice twist at the climax and a sweet ending. The others were okay, but in my opinion, didn't quite hold up in comparison.
First story was the best: exciting and action-packed with a nice twist at the climax and a sweet ending. The others were okay, but in my opinion, didn't quite hold up in comparison.
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July 5, 2010SW clonewars v.9
May 23, 2012
Holy Crap! The ending is so good! It is so good to get other stories and perspectives of what happened in between the movies.
November 4, 2012
Probably the best of the series, and a nice wrap-up to some earlier stories.
September 10, 2016
This is a good book, I need to read more!
April 17, 2016
A glimpse of what happened to other Jedi following Order 66.
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