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sklus's review against another edition
2.0
I don't mean to be mean, and I certainly cannot do better, but the art style was really weird and unpleasant for me. And like, Mace Windu is a cool character, but the story was a little boring and slow. They introduce a new villian and his motivations make no sense. I think I would have preferred if the whole thing was about the flash back scene that takes place during like 5 pages. Oh well, 2 stars.
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He's a droid, what can he possibly do with credits? Like I know some droids have different programming and near sentience, but like it would make more sense if he was just really into violence. Like I don't think droids can own property, but even if they can, the droid didn't have any nice things around him or any things around him really. It just didn't make sense.andybdubs's review against another edition
2.0
This is the third Star Wars collection I’ve read this year, and if I were to rank them from best to worst, it would sit comfortably in the bottom spot. Cullen Bunn’s Darth Maul miniseries and Charles Soule’s Obi-Wan and Anakin miniseries both felt like authentic additions to the world of Star Wars. But Owens’ Mace Windu miniseries feels more like a missed opportunity. In too many instances the dialogue feels wrong, and the central conflict—a group of Jedi battle a droid mercenary hired by General Grievous to extract energy-rich plants from a distant planet—doesn’t carry any heft or momentum. Issue four is the best of the bunch because it gives us a window—small as it is—on Windu as a man with a past through flashbacks to when he was just an impulsive padawan. I wish Owens had used flashbacks more throughout the series’ five issues to give us even greater insight into Windu’s past and his motivations. As it is, he feels, unfortunately, only slightly more developed than he was in the prequels.
neilrcoulter's review against another edition
3.0
I go into Star Wars graphic novels with the lowest of expectations, and this one was not so bad. The story itself is bland and uninteresting, but within the story there is a more intriguing debate about whether the Jedi are doing the right thing in becoming generals and leading clone armies into battle. That's the kind of moral dilemma that was almost entirely missing from the prequel movies, and it's the sort of thing I'm very interested in. I think in this book, we're supposed to believe that the dissenter is wrong and Mace Windu is right, but that wasn't how I felt. The Jedi have serious issues that they never confront. The Last Jedi suggests that it's going to confront issues like that, but then it ends up running away from them or ignoring them. Maybe someday . . .
The primary question I have about the Clone Wars is: Why is it worth causing death and destruction to prevent some planets from breaking away from the Republic and forming another governance system? That doesn't make sense to me. It's like the American Civil War, but without the slavery issue. Should an entire galaxy be governed by one system? Could a galaxy support two governments, especially if they're cooperative? Separation from the Republic doesn't seem like a compelling reason to throw the galaxy into chaos (which is what the Republic/Jedi are fighting to prevent; in fighting for that ideal, they're destroying that ideal). Related to that: What's the big deal about Jedi deciding to leave the order? Do you really have to become homicidal and destroy some Jedi in order to get out of it? This seems like a strange cult. An exit option would've solved one character's problem in this story--and, of course, it would have been a good option for Anakin.
The art in this book is unremarkable, the flashback to Mace Windu as a padawan is insubstantial, the villain should have been Durge, and it seems odd to me that the Jedi Council can't spare any clone troops to send with Mace, but they can spare three other Jedi generals.
Not the worst Star Wars comic, but not at all the best.
The primary question I have about the Clone Wars is: Why is it worth causing death and destruction to prevent some planets from breaking away from the Republic and forming another governance system? That doesn't make sense to me. It's like the American Civil War, but without the slavery issue. Should an entire galaxy be governed by one system? Could a galaxy support two governments, especially if they're cooperative? Separation from the Republic doesn't seem like a compelling reason to throw the galaxy into chaos (which is what the Republic/Jedi are fighting to prevent; in fighting for that ideal, they're destroying that ideal). Related to that: What's the big deal about Jedi deciding to leave the order? Do you really have to become homicidal and destroy some Jedi in order to get out of it? This seems like a strange cult. An exit option would've solved one character's problem in this story--and, of course, it would have been a good option for Anakin.
The art in this book is unremarkable, the flashback to Mace Windu as a padawan is insubstantial, the villain should have been Durge, and it seems odd to me that the Jedi Council can't spare any clone troops to send with Mace, but they can spare three other Jedi generals.
Not the worst Star Wars comic, but not at all the best.
jagussow's review against another edition
Not sure how to rate this. It wasn't bad but wasn't good either. A lot of interesting concepts that don't get explored, instead focusing on a lackluster villain and a droid incursion into a planet for an energy source. There's a subplot about Mace and another Jedi disagreeing over the role of the Jedi in the Clone Wars and honestly that was the best hook and I wish that had been the main plot driver.
The recent Jody Houser Age of Republic series shows there's still lots of great material in the prequels and Mace sadly lacks in that department. He deserved better than an undercooked miniseries.
The recent Jody Houser Age of Republic series shows there's still lots of great material in the prequels and Mace sadly lacks in that department. He deserved better than an undercooked miniseries.
daftfader's review against another edition
2.0
This comic had generally weak art and dialogue/ villain motivations. It tried some philosophy, but I found the attempt vapid.