![]() ![]() This just doesn’t fit with the character as he should be at this point in time, and it doesn’t help the story at all. He’s brash, quick to anger, immature, and generally not very pleasant. The Anakin here acts like he does at the start of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. He did a lot of maturing and growing there, but here he’s regressed. ![]() Anakin was knighted in the recent novel Star Wars Brotherhood, where he also spent some time helping to teach younglings, and went on a daring rescue mission. This story clearly takes place during the Clone Wars, but still early on as Anakin’s hair hasn’t grown out, though he doesn’t have his padawan braid, which means he is a Jedi Knight here. READ MORE: The Sandwich Man (1966) – Blu-ray ReviewĪnother big problem I had with this story is Anakin. As it stands, the villains are after… something. Yes, you don’t have to give away every piece of information, you can have a sense of mystery, but you do also need to explain why things are happening. There’s a brief moment where he’s shoving it in the doll where you see the barest hint of something blue, but that’s all you get. The first is that the mysterious item that Senator Yarua is carrying, that he hides in his daughter’s doll, that Grievous is there to find, is never named, and never shown. There are a number of issues I had with the story. Sadly, this particular story never quite managed to grab me in any way that would do that. I can’t help but feel that a first issue needs to start strong, to showcase what the book is going to be about, and to convince people to buy it. This feels like something of an odd choice for the first story of this new series. After receiving a call to help, the Jedi council agree to send Obi-Wan Kenobi, and his recently knighted partner, Anakin Skywalker. ![]() However, Senator Yarua is also transporting an important something of extreme importance, and hides it in his daughter’s doll before sending her out into the woods to hide. Shortly after arriving on the planet a small fleet of Separatist ships arrive to capture the delegation, under the command of General Grievous. The first story to feature in this series is set in the prequel era, where Padme Amidala is sent to the Moon of Staggec as part of a diplomatic mission, alongside the Wookie senator Yarua and his daughter Viiveenn. READ MORE: The Lonesome Hunters #3 – Comic Review This feels like a big improvement already. Instead of grabbing a random issue of Star Wars Adventures and getting the first part of one story, and the second part of another, with Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories readers will get an entire story, even if they only ever read the one issue. As such, this makes the series a little more accessible to readers who can’t pick up every issue. Instead of containing two stories, or more accurately, two parts of stories, that would be split across multiple issues, this new series is instead a series of one-shots, with each issue to be its own contained tale (or at least as far as we’ve been told so far). In a lot of ways, the series is set to be the new version of Star Wars Adventures, though there are some differences that are notable straight away. Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories is a new all-ages anthology story series from Dark Horse,set within any era of the Star Warsfranchise. ![]()
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