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Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures #2

Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Vol. 2

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Inspired by the Cartoon Network's Clone Wars cartoons, this series tells new stories of heroism and villainy in the same stripped-down visual style.

In the rolling asteroid rings above a remote planet, General Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker play a deadly game of cat and mouse against Separatist droid fighters-and a squadron of highly skilled human pilots who have pledged their guns to Count Dooku. Find out why Anakin is known as the greatest pilot in the galaxy!

Also in this volume, Jedi Master Luminara Unuli and her Padawan Barriss Offee race against time to evacuate farmers and their families before the droid forces of General Grievous overrun their village. When Barriss and her squad of clone troopers are caught in the path of the enemy army, only fast thinking and steel resolve can save the day!

Incredible action, hot art, and lightning-fast pacing are coming your way in this new take on the Star Wars galaxy!

96 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2004

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W. Haden Blackman

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W. 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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Profile Image for Sophie_The_Jedi_Knight.
1,219 reviews
December 21, 2020
Only in the sky, Master. Only in the sky...

The first story in this collection is Obi-Wan and Anakin defeating some ships together, but it's got some deeper stuff going on. The beginning and the end are both just... wow. And the use of eyes... wow.

It feels strange rating the second story, as it is one I remember with perfect clarity from when I was younger. It was fun to read about Luminara and Barris regardless, though, and this is still a great story with the two of them.

The last one is a bit more empty in comparison, although it's better than the standard "fight scene with different Jedi" that this series occasionally puts out. It's a bit of a nicer one about Mace Windu protecting life with the Force.

4/5 stars. I still had tons of fun with this book, but I know that greater things are yet to come.
Profile Image for Graham Barrett.
1,354 reviews4 followers
April 27, 2024
(Read in 2004, review from 2024)

The best of this little subseries of Clone Wars comics. As far as I know the first story in the volume was the only official depiction of characters/events in the Original Trilogy done up in Genndy Tartakovsky's art style used in his Clone Wars show.
Profile Image for Adam.
997 reviews240 followers
December 12, 2019
More breezy Jedi action with pithy messages and morals. The way they lean into that latter aspect is a big part of what makes these shorts feel so sharp, when they work. Here, maybe not so much? It's interesting to see this series try the same sorts of elevating and interconnecting ploys later comics use, like the way Skywalkers is framed with ANH scenes, or the way the way Run Mace Run builds a pattern of planet-killing superweapons. I didn't find either of those effective here, though. These stories are too arch and quick for things like that to work. The middle story, with Luminara and Barriss, is maybe the best, taking a clear lesson from some random civilians and applying it in battle. The action felt a bit confused at the end, though, so it didn't land quite right. I wish the ecological theme in Run Mace Run were developed in a forum more amenable to elaboration than this.
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112 reviews
December 3, 2025
much much better than the first book in this series. this one was actually really good and not hard to follow even tho i didn’t know the scenes or where they came from. even made me giggle a few times.
Profile Image for Rivulet027.
296 reviews1 follower
October 13, 2020
The first story is basically Obi-Wan's terrible no good very bad day. It started with an Older Obi-Wan telling Luke about his father with the lines from the movie and then shows Obi-Wan getting exasperated with Anakin as they're overwhelmed in an aerial battle. It is a lot of antics. At one point Anakin jumps off a Separatist to land on a Republic ship (the poor startled clone's face!) to continue the battle after he loses his ship. When the story ends it's bracketed by Darth Vader looking at Obi-Wan's collapsed robe.

I loved the second story. Luminara, Barriss, and the clones they're working with are attempting to evacuate a village on Nadiem. One of the three clone commanders they're working with tells Luminara that they're struggling to fit the villagers in the ships because the villagers want to bring their belongings with them and there isn't room on the ships. Luminara asks the villagers to leave their belongings and they protest. One guy wants to bring his eopi, Elrod. Luminara points out that the eopi takes up the room of three people and asks the man to chose which of his three neighbors should be left behind. He relents. The rest of the villagers also decide to leave their processions behind. There's one very rotund man in line without processions, but he's visibly sweating. Luminara confronts him. He's got all his belongings under his cloths. She makes him leave his belongings and tells him to get to the back of the line. He protests that he was about to get on the next ship. Luminara points out that many of his neighbors have small children who might have had to wait for the next ship because of how rotund he was pretending to be so he could take his belongings with him. His neighbors start grumbling and glaring at him and he decides he's getting in the back of the line. Barriss is amazed and Luminara gives her a lesson on hiding in plain sight and what gives it away when you are. They then get a call from one of the clone commanders that they were escorting refugees to the evac sight, but one of them is sick and it's impeding their progress. They request a ship to pick them up. Since she's a healer Barriss goes and Luminara, in an effort to keep her padawan safe, sends more clones with her. When Barriss comms she lets Luminara know that there were more refugees than anticipated and she wasn't able to fit any of her men onto the ship. The droid army is almost there and they'll have to engage. The thing I liked about this part is that it showed Grievous plotting and gives you a taste of what kind of tactician he is. Then Luminara lose contact with Barriss and the droid army is almost to the village they're evacuating. Then it shows that the commander that Barriss is working with had a plan to blow up the walls of the cliff they're in so that they could ambush the droid army. It's very similar to the plan from the Ryloth episodes with Commander Keeli and Master Ima Gun Di. Barriss points out that it looks like a last stand and she has another plan. They shoot at the droid army and the droid army shoots back. The next shot looks like the droids are walking past Barriss and her men all dead. They're only playing dead and this lets them attack the droid army from behind when they engage with Luminara and her men. They quickly win and Barriss tells Luminara she used the lesson on hiding in plain sight as inspiration.

The third story is basically Mace's terrible no good very bad day. He's on a drop ship with his men and they're hit by a missile. He wakes up on the ground and finds he's the only survivor. He remembers Yoda saying, "To give to all--sometimes the few must sacrifice their lives, but forget their sacrifice we must not. For to be ungrateful is to be unenlightened." Mace buries his men, then mentions he feels weak, but he needs to move or die. He needs to cross a bridge while being fired on by droids. He remembers Yoda saying, "A straight line the path of the force is. To walk this path one must have focus and vigilance. Become your legs your focus must...vigilance your lungs. To the focused mind, impossible nothing is. Through a mountain one can carve a path." Mace destroys the droids and the weapon that he and his men were sent to sabotage. The next scene is an non-human character bragging to Count Dooku that he will show him the planet killer that he's developed...and then nothing happens. Count Dooku isn't impressed. Dooku tells the other character he'll be imprisoned and that he and his colleagues will have to continue their search for a planet killer. The scene shifts to Mace standing on the weapon he destroyed as he remembers Yoda's words once more, "Delicate is the balance of the force...nurtured it must be. Sacred is all life. From the largest of planet, to the smallest of insect...protected must they all be."
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Profile Image for Jared.
407 reviews17 followers
March 9, 2017
Star Wars Legends Project #111

Background: Clone Wars Adventures, Volume 2 was released in November 2004. It consists of three stand-alone stories in the style of Cartoon Network's animated Clone Wars series: Skywalkers, Hide in Plain Sight, and Run Mace Run. All three were pencilled by the Fillbach Brothers, and they also wrote the third one. The first was written by Haden Blackman, and the second was written by Welles Hartley (a pseudonym of Randy Stradley). Stradley is a VP at Dark Horse and has written dozens of Star Wars comics (sometimes under different names), most notably the Crimson Empire series.

Skywalkers is set 5 months after the Battle of Geonosis (22 years before the Battle of Yavin), with bookend segments set during A New Hope, and features Obi-Wan and Anakin. It takes place on the planet Terra Sool. Hide in Plain Sight takes place on Nadiem around the same time, with Luminara Unduli and her apprentice Barriss Offee. Run Mace Run also takes place around the same time and stars Mace Windu (obviously).

Summary: In Skywalkers, Obi-Wan and Anakin battle to save a planet from destruction by the Separatists, but the sudden appearance of dozens of giant floating weapons platforms may be too much for even them to handle.

In Hide in Plain Sight, Luminara and Barriss struggle to evacuate a group of civilians caught in the path of an oncoming droid army.

In Run Mace Run, Mace Windu runs.

Review: A lot of what I have to say about this collection is essentially the same as what I said about Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Vol. 1, so I'll just refer you to my review of that instead.

As far as the specific stories in this volume, I felt like the first two at least were a cut above the last one, though not by a lot. Skywalkers was essentially the generic "Obi-Wan and Anakin Jedi their way out of an extreme jam while bantering" formula, but beginning and ending the story with scenes from A New Hope for context elevated the material probably more than it deserved. Hide in Plain Sight was at least slightly more interesting than the "Jedi show up and wreck everything with no problem" bit that I'm already tired of. I was annoyed that Luminara believed at one point that Barriss had died, as though she wouldn't have felt that in the Force, but these stories are full of niggling details like that, so whatever. Run Mace Run was basically 20 pages of panels of Mace Windu running across a planet, and then something really random and absurd happens at the end. The art was pretty cool, and there's essentially no dialogue which is always an interesting way to try and tell a story, but there isn't so much a story here, so . . . meh. And that's Volume 2.

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164 reviews1 follower
November 24, 2018
Skywalker:

I like this issue as it nice to see more of Anakin and Obi-wan as it relates to their relationship with one another. The art style is creative and remains interesting. I not a huge fan of the story line but these stories are wrong then for pre-teens. Anakin is definitely a risk taker and relays on is use of the force and does not think thing through. This seem to be spot on for what we know about him. My rating for this issue is a 4.1 out of 5.0.

Hide in plain sight:

This story involves none other than Luminara and Barris, two female Jedi. The lesson coming from this issue is basically what you may be looking for is right in front of face. Some problems can be solved with the simplest solutions. This was a some what simple but creative story line that led to a great victory. My rating for this issue is a 4.5 out of 5.0.

"Run Mace Run":

This was my favorite issue so far and I am truly surprised considering how weak the title is. The only thing I did not like is how Mace actually survived the crash. Jedi are not indestructible they must use the force to have a chance at survival in a adverse situation. I would have liked more details here. I love the fact that there were others trying to sell the empire planet killers. This was very much a welcoming surprise for my. My rating for issue is 4.8 out 5.0.
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Profile Image for Rakib Khan .
241 reviews5 followers
July 30, 2023
The second volume continues with the style established by the animated series and the first volume, focusing on specific characters in separate events of the ongoing war.

'Skywalker' is the first story featuring Obi-Wan telling Luke a tell of the heroics of his father during the height of the clone wars. Anakin does some pretty cool force hijinks and it as a cool ending foreshadowing the future.

'Hide in plain sight' follows the duo of Luminara and Bariss, as the attempt to stop an invading force of General Grievous's army while also trying to save the civilians. There are some interesting messages and a short little cameo by Grievous.

The third story is 'Run Mace run', which is a story of the one and only Mace Windu and has another cameo, this time featuring Count Dooku. Windu's drop ship gets destroyed, and he is the only survivor and has to fight through an army of droids to destroy a powerful weapon. Nice little story with an interesting concept.

This one might be slightly better than the first volume but gets 4 out of 5 stars from me like the first one.

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39 reviews1 follower
April 5, 2024
An improvemenet to the first volume, these stories here allude to the Original Trilogy. The artwork is pretty good though minimalistic in the style of the show. More dialogue than previously and the stories in my opinion are more entertaining and thematically fitting.

The first story involves Anakin and Obi-Wan fighting Separatists while some panels are set in the future during the Original Trilogy.

The second story is one about a battle between Barriss Offee and her clones against a bunch of Separatists.

The third story is one about Mace Windu stopping a doomsday device. I liked this story the most because it fits into Count Dooku's saturday morning cartoon villan motif of creating evil weaponry that is going to later be used by the empire down the line.
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1,678 reviews108 followers
June 29, 2024
Three more tales set during the original Clone Wars cartoon series. Again there's one with Anakin and Obi-Wan and one with Mace Windu, while the third featured Jedis Luminara Unduli and Barriss Offee. Continuing to play out in the vignette style of the cartoon, the stories were of the various Jedi trying to fight Sepratist forces on various planets. These episodes were a little less interesting than the previous volume, but still good enough to warrant exploring the series farther.
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1,287 reviews19 followers
July 24, 2021
This volume of Tartakovsky-inspired Clone Wars adventures in miniature scores a little higher than the first, for embracing the primary element of Tartakovsky's animated storytelling: stillness and silence. Both the first and the last story in this volume are quiet, balancing action with stillness in the way that made Tartakovsky a Western animation legend in "Samurai Jack."
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623 reviews52 followers
December 31, 2021
The only emotional response this caused was my urge to rewatch the show this is based on. Tartakovsky is a master of action, while the Fillbach Brothers are just... ok. Some decent choreography but they really had to push things further, it all just barely manages not to fall flat. Other than that, the writing is extremely simple.
4 reviews
December 14, 2020
I loved the book because there was images and texts that let me understand the story in this book better then just having to read texts.
Profile Image for Juho Pohjalainen.
Author 5 books348 followers
August 21, 2022
I should have written about how poignant the first story was, but all that really stuck to my head was how the last one began: Made Windu of all people should be able to block a missile.
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Author 18 books20 followers
June 14, 2023
The sass is strong with this one - and so is the Force, obviously. These three one-shots were amazing.
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1,063 reviews2 followers
December 25, 2023
More adventures during the clone wars. We see a variety of characters from heroes to villains. This is a fun and adventurous trip to what it was like during the clone wars.
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26 reviews
February 5, 2025
Delicated in the balance of the force... Nurtured it must be.
Sacred is all life. From the largest of planet, to the smallest of insect... Protected must they all be.
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Author 1 book44 followers
August 6, 2019
Based off CN's Clone Wars cartoons from 2004, this digest novel continues with three stories of our heroes.

Skywalkers has Obi-Wan and Ankin at Terra Sool. The art tells a lot of the story, but there is still quite a bit of dialogue. The colors are so clear and beautiful too. The mission isn't as easy as they thought it would be, and both are reckless in their approaches to free the planet from the Trade Federation.

Hiddin in Plain Sight features Luminara and Barriss - both of whom are drawn oddly. They're on Nadiem with the Clones are are trying to save the planet's refugees. There is a plan to ambush Grievous, which the cyborg expects. However, he doesn't anticipate the counterattack.

"Sometimes trying too hard to escape detection will drawn attention to one's self." - Luminara, page 49


In Run Mace Run, Mace finds himself on a mission sans Clones when he crashes on a world where he has to stop a Separatist plot. The world has dinosaurs on it, I swear. The art almost completely tells the story, and it's beautiful
Profile Image for Jerome Otte.
1,916 reviews
November 18, 2014
An OK collection of fairly lackluster stories. The antics of Obi-Wan and Anakin are barely believable even considering that this is science fiction, although I liked how it ended with the scene of how Anakin,as Darth Vader, ends up “killing” his former master. In another tale, two other prominent Jedi and a detachment of Clone troops defend a city and its refugees from Separatist attacks. The last story involves Mace Windu crashing on a planet that just so happens to be the site of an experiment involving planet-destroying weapons, which the planet’s arms dealers are attempting to convince the skeptical Count Dooku to buy. Windu ends up ruining this plan. Not a lot of substance to this story, though.
Profile Image for Mark.
336 reviews21 followers
May 26, 2012
The second volume in this series contains stories by Haden Blackman, Welles Hartley, and the Fillbach brothers who also did the artwork. All stories in this and the previous volume are self-contained. In other words, you don’t need to know too much about the Star Wars universe or the Clone Wars backstory.

Published in trade paperback by Dark Horse Comics.
Profile Image for Angela.
2,595 reviews71 followers
September 6, 2013
Suitable for children aged 8 + and those who have seen the cartoons.
Three more tales to enjoy. A nicely framed story about Anakin and Obi Wan, surprisingly touching for this series. Mace Windu lets loose on some droids. Finally, Barriss shows she has learnt a few lessons. A good read.
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334 reviews
August 2, 2022
En este tomo además de ver algunas aventuras de Anakin con su maestro, Obi Wan, también podemos ver las batallas que libran otros maestros Jedi, en otras partes de la Galaxia defendiendo la paz y tranquilidad de los Separatistas que constantemente amenazan a muchos poblados.
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17 reviews
April 3, 2009
Mine has a different and cooler cover.
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