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Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories--Grievous
Separatist mastermind General Grievous stalks a Jedi Knight and his battalion of clone troopers on the jungle planet of Katou in this 88-page original graphic novel.
General Grievous has been sent by Count Dooku to conquer the jungle planet of Katou. It’s an opportunity that will prove Grievous’s worth to his Sith masters.
The herdsmen of Katou are no match for the mechanized monster, but when Jedi Knight Cardiff Baye and his clone troopers arrive, Grievous takes to the forest for a stealthier approach.
What follows is a tense game of cat and mouse as the cyborg wages a covert campaign, stalking his prey through the alien wilderness. Can the general’s brute strength defeat the heroes of the Republic, or will his beastly nature be his downfall?
Join bestselling comics veteran, novelist and screenwriter Michael Moreci (Barbaric, Star The Bad Batch-Ghost Agents) and renowned artist Caio Filipe (Lotus Land, Star The High Republic Adventures) for this standalone story of one of the galaxy’s most savage villains! Featuring cover art by award–winning artist Michael Cho.
General Grievous has been sent by Count Dooku to conquer the jungle planet of Katou. It’s an opportunity that will prove Grievous’s worth to his Sith masters.
The herdsmen of Katou are no match for the mechanized monster, but when Jedi Knight Cardiff Baye and his clone troopers arrive, Grievous takes to the forest for a stealthier approach.
What follows is a tense game of cat and mouse as the cyborg wages a covert campaign, stalking his prey through the alien wilderness. Can the general’s brute strength defeat the heroes of the Republic, or will his beastly nature be his downfall?
Join bestselling comics veteran, novelist and screenwriter Michael Moreci (Barbaric, Star The Bad Batch-Ghost Agents) and renowned artist Caio Filipe (Lotus Land, Star The High Republic Adventures) for this standalone story of one of the galaxy’s most savage villains! Featuring cover art by award–winning artist Michael Cho.
96 pages, Paperback
Published March 17, 2026
About the author
Michael Moreci
441 books214 followersMichael Moreci is a bestselling comics author and novelist. His original works include the space adventure novels Black Star Renegades and We Are Mayhem, as well as the comic series Wasted Space, The Plot, Hexagon, Curse, Archangel 8, and more. The Plot appeared on numerous best of 2019 lists, and Wasted Space has been hailed as one of the best comics of the past decade. Moreci's comic trilogy Roche Limit was called one of the best sci-fi comics of all-time by Paste Magazine, and Black Star Renegades was an Audie Award finalist for best sci-fi of 2018.
Moreci has also written for Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and the DC universe--including the YA graphic novel The Lost Carnival: A Dick Grayson Story. He's also adapted Eoin Colfer's bestselling Artemis Fowl series into graphic novels.
He lives outside Chicago with his family.
Moreci has also written for Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and the DC universe--including the YA graphic novel The Lost Carnival: A Dick Grayson Story. He's also adapted Eoin Colfer's bestselling Artemis Fowl series into graphic novels.
He lives outside Chicago with his family.
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June 26, 2026
A pleasant surprise. The art is great, and this is probably one of my favorite depictions of General Grievous to date. He is portrayed as a real threat. It was nice to see him during the early days of the Clone Wars, still discovering himself as the monster who “would come to destroy the Jedi's faith”. However, I would have loved to see more of his own perspective and his past. I also really liked the personality of the new Jedi, Cardiff Baye, and his dynamic with the clones. Some nice philosophical discussions there.
Although the story doesn't take any surprising turns, the rest make up for it.
Although the story doesn't take any surprising turns, the rest make up for it.
March 21, 2026
Personally didnt care too much for this one. Dark Horse is taking their sweet time getting these GNs out that they announced 2 years ago, and this didnt feel worth the wait.
The Qui-Gon volume told an actual interesting story. This one just felt like a boring, expected story of Grievous first jedi kill. Didnt care about the Jedi, who's fate was inevitable, and didnt care about Grievous doing typical Grievous things. my average response to most of these types of Star Wars Character prequel stories. Nothing interesting to note. Forever disappointed we dont have a cool story with Grievous pre-cyborg.
The Qui-Gon volume told an actual interesting story. This one just felt like a boring, expected story of Grievous first jedi kill. Didnt care about the Jedi, who's fate was inevitable, and didnt care about Grievous doing typical Grievous things. my average response to most of these types of Star Wars Character prequel stories. Nothing interesting to note. Forever disappointed we dont have a cool story with Grievous pre-cyborg.
May 11, 2026
"but sometimes the universe put us on certain paths, and we can choose to ignore these paths, or we can accept them. we may not like the path ahead of us, but that doesn't make the path any less necessary"
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July 3, 2026When it comes to telling stories, Star Wars is a franchise that has untapped potential. The brilliance of George Lucas’s space opera is that every character is important, no matter how minute they might seem on screen. Take General Grievous as an example. The robotic lightsaber-collector was given just eight minutes of screen time in one movie and is one of the more popular characters across the saga. Desperate to pad out the lore and backstory of every popular character, Disney has commissioned Dark Horse Comics to create a new story to expand the life of the asthmatic warlord. The end result is Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories- Grievous.
From the opening few pages, it’s clear that Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories –Grievous isn’t an origin story. Rather, it tells a story early in the Clone Wars saga. Count Dooku recruits Grievous to take over the jungle planet, Katou, to prove his allegiance to the Sith Lord and to the fledgling Empire. Keen to assert his skills, Grievous dutifully landed on the planet to complete his task. Unbeknownst to the Dark Side, the Jedi got a whiff of the troubles on Katou and deployed a platoon of clone troopers, led by Jedi Knight Cardiff Baye. Grievous took this development as a cat smiles before pouncing on a mouse and decides to have fun with his new prey.
What should have been a balanced back and forth between Grievous and the Jedi out to stop him turned into a typical Star Wars trope, where the focus was firmly pinned on Baye, the good guy. For a book that bears the name of the General, he is surprisingly absent for most of the 88 pages; instead, he is demoted to more of a supporting cast member. While it was disappointing to see a minimal number of panels dedicated to Grievous, the novel still moves along at a pod racer pace.
Michael Moreci has created a lean story that zips by in next to no time. There’s very little fat to chew over what it wants to tell. Hyperspace Stories’ limited length means that no one character is fleshed out nicely. Baye, his troops, along with the titular Grievous, don’t have enough panel time to develop a meaningful relationship. By the time I closed the final page, I was left with next to no new information about Grievous, and a feeling that there could have been so much more to the comic if it was a few pages longer.
Its especially disappointing as the artwork perfectly encapsulates what the Star Wars universe should be. Caio Filipe and Dan Jackson work effortlessly to bring that unique Star Wars aesthetic to the graphic novel’s pages. The planet of Katou is mainly seen at night, but still retains its vivid colours, especially when Grievous is on the hunt.
Even if there are no big revelations to be had, Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories–Grievous is still a fun read. It is clearly aimed at pleasing those who love the lightsaber-wielding general, but those with a passing interest should still give it a shot. At the very worst, you’ll have a fun afternoon reading about Grievous’ adventures away from battling Obi-Wan Kenobi.
*Review copy provided by the publisher
From the opening few pages, it’s clear that Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories –Grievous isn’t an origin story. Rather, it tells a story early in the Clone Wars saga. Count Dooku recruits Grievous to take over the jungle planet, Katou, to prove his allegiance to the Sith Lord and to the fledgling Empire. Keen to assert his skills, Grievous dutifully landed on the planet to complete his task. Unbeknownst to the Dark Side, the Jedi got a whiff of the troubles on Katou and deployed a platoon of clone troopers, led by Jedi Knight Cardiff Baye. Grievous took this development as a cat smiles before pouncing on a mouse and decides to have fun with his new prey.
What should have been a balanced back and forth between Grievous and the Jedi out to stop him turned into a typical Star Wars trope, where the focus was firmly pinned on Baye, the good guy. For a book that bears the name of the General, he is surprisingly absent for most of the 88 pages; instead, he is demoted to more of a supporting cast member. While it was disappointing to see a minimal number of panels dedicated to Grievous, the novel still moves along at a pod racer pace.
Michael Moreci has created a lean story that zips by in next to no time. There’s very little fat to chew over what it wants to tell. Hyperspace Stories’ limited length means that no one character is fleshed out nicely. Baye, his troops, along with the titular Grievous, don’t have enough panel time to develop a meaningful relationship. By the time I closed the final page, I was left with next to no new information about Grievous, and a feeling that there could have been so much more to the comic if it was a few pages longer.
Its especially disappointing as the artwork perfectly encapsulates what the Star Wars universe should be. Caio Filipe and Dan Jackson work effortlessly to bring that unique Star Wars aesthetic to the graphic novel’s pages. The planet of Katou is mainly seen at night, but still retains its vivid colours, especially when Grievous is on the hunt.
Even if there are no big revelations to be had, Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories–Grievous is still a fun read. It is clearly aimed at pleasing those who love the lightsaber-wielding general, but those with a passing interest should still give it a shot. At the very worst, you’ll have a fun afternoon reading about Grievous’ adventures away from battling Obi-Wan Kenobi.
*Review copy provided by the publisher
June 7, 2026
22 BBY.
Early in the Clone Wars, a Jedi General and his battalion of Clone Troopers are sent to the remote planet Katou. There they fall into a trap set by the new leader of the Confederacy's droid army; General Grievous.
The set-up for this story is painfully contrived, with a Jedi General and his whole unit being sent to answer a vague distress call from a planet that's not even part of the Republic. It's so nonsensical that even the characters themselves call it out in the book, but they, sadly, are unaware that it all happens just so the Jedi and Clones are on a remote planet so that the plot can happen.
However, once you get past the contrived set-up, the actual story here is good.
The new Jedi introduced is the right balance of Obi-Wan-like wisdom and Anakin-ish recklessness, the Clone characters introduced are engaging and feel like individuals and Grievous himself is done justice as a threat and as a character, something that's pretty rare in and of itself.
My favourite scene in the whole book is the prologue where Count Dooku discusses the nature of being a servant of greater Masters whilst also proving your own identity to yourself. The scene gives some nice insight into both characters and into their relationship to one another.
I also have to point out the artwork in this book, which is leagues better than anything seen anywhere else in Dark Horse's otherwise B-list Star Wars stories. It is especially gratifying to see the title character portrayed as sinister and menacing, a ruthless and shadowy hunter stalking the Jedi and the Clones.
My final note about the book has to be about the name of the main Jedi character. He's genuinely called Cardiff Baye. That may not mean much to people outside of the UK but it's the equivalent to having a character called Boston Harbore or Tokyo Porte.
It's just so weird to see Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi shouting the name of Wales' capital city.
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Early in the Clone Wars, a Jedi General and his battalion of Clone Troopers are sent to the remote planet Katou. There they fall into a trap set by the new leader of the Confederacy's droid army; General Grievous.
The set-up for this story is painfully contrived, with a Jedi General and his whole unit being sent to answer a vague distress call from a planet that's not even part of the Republic. It's so nonsensical that even the characters themselves call it out in the book, but they, sadly, are unaware that it all happens just so the Jedi and Clones are on a remote planet so that the plot can happen.
However, once you get past the contrived set-up, the actual story here is good.
The new Jedi introduced is the right balance of Obi-Wan-like wisdom and Anakin-ish recklessness, the Clone characters introduced are engaging and feel like individuals and Grievous himself is done justice as a threat and as a character, something that's pretty rare in and of itself.
My favourite scene in the whole book is the prologue where Count Dooku discusses the nature of being a servant of greater Masters whilst also proving your own identity to yourself. The scene gives some nice insight into both characters and into their relationship to one another.
I also have to point out the artwork in this book, which is leagues better than anything seen anywhere else in Dark Horse's otherwise B-list Star Wars stories. It is especially gratifying to see the title character portrayed as sinister and menacing, a ruthless and shadowy hunter stalking the Jedi and the Clones.
My final note about the book has to be about the name of the main Jedi character. He's genuinely called Cardiff Baye. That may not mean much to people outside of the UK but it's the equivalent to having a character called Boston Harbore or Tokyo Porte.
It's just so weird to see Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi shouting the name of Wales' capital city.
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In this collection we get a glimpse into the past of General Grievous - a character who should have had more background. In the movies we don't learn much of him and even in the Clone Wars series he is little more than the big baddie but nowhere do we go into his background. Who was he before he became a metallic monstrosity and how exactly did he gain all those lightsabers?The story places us in time early in the clone wars, where Grievous is a recent addition to the Separatist army. He is sent alone to terrorize and distract a distant planet in order to split Republic forces. A previously unseen Jedi, Cardiff Baye is sent with his clones to find out what is going on.
The overall story and the action are passable but nothing special. The most interesting parts come from the introspection of Grieveous and the glimpse into his inner thoughts. There's no huge reveals here but enough to make it interesting and I wish the author would have had more time (or freedom) to delve deeper into this character. Also, the Jedi Baye is surprisingly interesting as a character. I would not have minded seeing more of him as well.
I liked the art in this one, it was better than the usual flair. There were some very strong panels and I especially liked the action sequences.
Recommended for Star Wars fan at large, especially if you like the Clone Wars era. This is one step above the average in the Hyperspace stories set. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.
March 29, 2026
Of all the Star Wars characters out there, General Grievous is my favorite, so a graphic novel telling more of his background story? Yes, please!
Going back to some of the earlier days of the Clone Wars, we're introduced to Jedi Knight Cardiff Baye, who's instructed by Obi-Wan Kenobi to take a squad of clones to investigate a distress call on the planet of Katou. Unbeknownst to them at the time, Count Dooku has sent General Grievous on one of his first missions to test him, and it's because of Grievous the natives of the planet have contacted the Jedi. What ensues is Baye and his troopers finding disgruntled natives and dinosaur-like beasts causing a ruckus, all due to Grievous. It was actually a solid story that gets you invested in a brand new Jedi instead of the usual suspects, as well as an intriguing look at the early days of Grievous as he proves himself to Dooku. It concludes with an epic scene worthy of the movies or better episodes of the cartoons, whose only drawback is that they let most of it occur off the page. But it does fit nicely into the Clone Wars timeline and was a very satisfying read. I'd love to see more of early Grievous in the future, as I think he's one of the most underutilized but fascinating characters of the SW saga.
Going back to some of the earlier days of the Clone Wars, we're introduced to Jedi Knight Cardiff Baye, who's instructed by Obi-Wan Kenobi to take a squad of clones to investigate a distress call on the planet of Katou. Unbeknownst to them at the time, Count Dooku has sent General Grievous on one of his first missions to test him, and it's because of Grievous the natives of the planet have contacted the Jedi. What ensues is Baye and his troopers finding disgruntled natives and dinosaur-like beasts causing a ruckus, all due to Grievous. It was actually a solid story that gets you invested in a brand new Jedi instead of the usual suspects, as well as an intriguing look at the early days of Grievous as he proves himself to Dooku. It concludes with an epic scene worthy of the movies or better episodes of the cartoons, whose only drawback is that they let most of it occur off the page. But it does fit nicely into the Clone Wars timeline and was a very satisfying read. I'd love to see more of early Grievous in the future, as I think he's one of the most underutilized but fascinating characters of the SW saga.
March 25, 2026
Maybe I have started wanting too much from Grievous stories, but I wished for a lot more from this. The length certainly did not help here. The story was too short to really drive home any big themes for the Jedi hunter, or for the supporting cast like Cardiff. It is published as a graphic novel, but it couldn't have had more than 3ish comic issues worth of story.
The ending relied too much on giant creatures. It feels as if there has been an abundance of Kaijus (or at least big animals) in Star Wars comics as of late. I appreciate that they had the guts to kill of an original character in Cardiff, but I felt he needed a little more fleshing out than just discount-Anakin.
The artwork had some cool panels. Grievous' glowing eyes in the rain and darkness made for great images.
The ending relied too much on giant creatures. It feels as if there has been an abundance of Kaijus (or at least big animals) in Star Wars comics as of late. I appreciate that they had the guts to kill of an original character in Cardiff, but I felt he needed a little more fleshing out than just discount-Anakin.
The artwork had some cool panels. Grievous' glowing eyes in the rain and darkness made for great images.
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May 15, 2026
This book is set in the early days of the Clone Wars, when General Grievous is settling into his role within the Separatist movement; however, aside from an opening and closing scene, he is barely in the book, which is disappointing when the book is titled Grievous. A Jedi knight is sent to a planet to assess a threat, Grievous terrorizes them, Jedi good and noble, Grievous bad. Very predictable story, but at least the art was pretty good. Grievous's revelation at the end was just okay; since we spent so little time with him, I wasn't really invested in his epilouge.
May 2, 2026
This is more a philosophical treatise than a story, with Grievous serving as a looming horror rather than a real threat. The actual focus is Jedi Cardiff Baye, who waxes philosophical about what Faith is, then lives his beliefs. The ending is a bit disappointing, but there are some decent action sequences throughout. A little different for a Star Wars book, but fine.
March 28, 2026
Wasn’t anything crazy, but I enjoyed the story — it felt like a horror movie with Grievous as the killer; I think the art could’ve been better for this specific tale though.
March 31, 2026
For a story titled 'Grievous' he's a decidedly secondary character.
April 15, 2026
A really interesting story about a villain in the starwars universe. We get a look under the hood of the machine and some lore about one of his lightsabers.
April 22, 2026
General Grievous Comics Are Fun
A pretty good comic, more lore for General Grievous is always interesting. Especially when they actually make him a threat.
A pretty good comic, more lore for General Grievous is always interesting. Especially when they actually make him a threat.
April 23, 2026
surprisingly captivating and good
May 5, 2026
Unexpectedly good art and a fun if no essential story.
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