Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones
The novelization that tries to make the romance work, and very nearly does.
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The novelization that tries to make the romance work, and very nearly does.
The Jedi Council decides to have someone assassinated, and it goes exactly as well as you would expect.
Master and apprentice become something the Order has no word for.
Mace Windu goes home, and Star Wars goes somewhere it had never been.
Four clone commandos, one sabotage mission, and no Jedi worth the name.
Two timelines, one grudging partnership, and Darth Vader in a very bad mood.
Who is involved
Created for a comic, drafted into the films because George Lucas liked the cover.
The apprentice who quit — the only major Jedi who leaves the Order and is proved right.
Count Dooku’s assassin in two incompatible versions — the clearest case of the reboot rewriting someone entirely.
A background extra at a podrace who became one of the animated era’s most reliable killers.
The padawan who bombed the Jedi Temple, framed her friend, and made the best argument against the Order anyone in the fiction has made.
A terrorist, then a regent, then a claimant — the longest political arc anyone in Star Wars has been given.
Waxer’s partner, and the one who argues that they cannot afford to care.
Died rather than open a holocron listing every Force-sensitive child in the galaxy.
A spaghetti-western gunslinger dropped into a war cartoon, and the one hunter the Jedi never beat cleanly.
A clone commando with amnesia, working as a dishwasher on Abafar.
The clone the war was told through — and one of the very few who got to choose what came after.
The clone who policed Coruscant, and shot Fives before he could finish the sentence.
Plo Koon’s commander, one eye short after Ventress, and an old man on Seelos twenty years later.
The Jedi who resigned on principle and was recruited by the very thing he claimed to be fighting.
The clone who walked away, took a name and a farm, and asks Rex the question the war cannot answer.
Firepower over finesse, a head full of bandages, and the longest continuous career of anyone in the line-up.
Presumed dead, wired into a Separatist computer, and recovered as something between a man and a machine.
A hunter of very few words, a bowcaster, and a hat that is also a shield and also a weapon.
A metre tall, one eye short, and the most openly aggressive Master in the chamber.
The brother who was spared the transformation, and killed by the brother who was not.
The clone who worked out what the inhibitor chips were for, and was shot for it.
Owned Shmi and Anakin Skywalker, and lost them on a bet.
A Kaleesh warlord rebuilt as a machine so he could collect the lightsabers of people who were better than him.
A pirate with no allegiance, no shame, and an unnervingly consistent code.
The droid who has taught every Jedi in twenty-five thousand years how to build a lightsaber.
The only Jedi in the prequels who looks like he is enjoying himself.
The 501st’s field medic, with "a good droid is a dead one" stencilled on his helmet.
Charges exorbitant rates, delivers, and fights with a scaled boa she also wears.
Thought to have died in Order 66; actually kept alive in a cell and used as bait.
The Order’s champion, right about Palpatine and wrong about how to handle him, in that order.
Not a Sith, and that is exactly the point — a dark side tradition the Sith never controlled.
Kit Fisto’s former padawan, promoted by a war and killed by it in the same episode.
The Order’s most dutiful son, which is exactly the problem the books keep poking at.
The oldest Nightsister alive, and the one who could call the dead ones back.
The senator the prequels use to show what a legislature looks like when it has stopped working.
A background mask in the films; in the Clone Wars, the Jedi the clones actually liked.
A Jedi General who spent clone lives deliberately, hoping the waste would get him noticed by Dooku.
A governor by day and a terrorist by night, holding the Darksaber and losing it in a fair fight.
A Jedi tracker who reads objects for memories, sent undercover into the dark side and left there too long.
A pacifist ruling a warrior culture, and the argument the whole Mandalorian canon is still having.
A Nightbrother rebuilt into a weapon by his own mother, and aimed at the people who took her son.
The Jedi assigned to Kamino — which is to say, the Jedi who watched the trap being manufactured.
The first clone to say out loud that the Republic owns him — and the first to sell it out.
A crew boss who takes the jobs she believes in, which is not how the profession is supposed to work.
Lead vocalist in Jabba’s house band, and in The Clone Wars a rather more dangerous proposition.
An elderly Jedi who solves a crime by walking slowly and listening to people.
The dark side as a family member — an abstraction with a sister, a father and a temper.
Cad Bane’s toolkit with opinions, and emphatically not a butler droid.
The trooper who found a Twi’lek orphan in a ruined city and could not leave her there.
Nine hundred years of institutional memory, and the man who presided over the collapse.
Jabba’s uncle, who tried a coup, failed, and could not outrun the Council he betrayed.
From the database
Dark Horse’s prequel-era flagship: eighty-three issues that begin a year before The Phantom Menace, become the main Clone Wars comic at issue #49,…
Five Clone Wars one-shots, each handing a single Jedi — or a single Sith — a full issue and asking what the war has done to them.
Ten pocket-sized digests of short Clone Wars stories drawn in the style of the Genndy Tartakovsky animated shorts, and aimed squarely at readers who…
Obi-Wan Kenobi cannot let go of the belief that Asajj Ventress survived, and drags Anakin across the galaxy to prove it.
A hunt for a rogue Jedi, told from the point of view of the Separatists’ cyborg general in the months before Revenge of the Sith.
The monthly tie-in to the animated series, drawn in the show’s style and pitched at the show’s audience, whose first arc the television series later…
Eleven digest-sized original graphic novels for younger readers, drawn in the animated series style and published alongside the monthly comic.
Maul and Savage Opress loose in the middle of the Clone Wars with a bounty on them, in the first Dark Horse comic to use the revived Maul of the…
Four issues adapted from unproduced Clone Wars scripts, covering Maul’s war with Darth Sidious — and the only Dark Horse Star Wars comic that…
Caleb Dume was a Jedi Padawan on the day the clones turned. Kanan Jarrus is what was left, and the twelve issues in between are the story neither…
Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka and a clone squad pinned down between missions, swapping war stories — a framing device that lets a different artist draw…