“I told you our big brother was coming!”
Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures — Free Comic book Day 2014 Special
Dark Horse (July, 2004)
“Hide In Plain Sight” WRITER: Welles Hartley ARTISTS: The Fillbach Brothers COLORS: Sno Cone Studios COVER CO-ARTIST: Dan Jackson LETTERER: Michael David Thomas DESIGNER: Darin Fabrick ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Jeremy Barlow EDITOR: Randy Stradley
Five months have passed since the Battle Of Geonosis. On the planet Nadiem, Master Luminara Unduli and her padawan, Barris Offee, are trying to get the refugees to safety before Grevious’s forces attack a village. Luminara convinces the locals to leave their belonging behind because there isn’t enough room on the ship, and sees through one guy’s large costume in which he was hiding his money. A group of clone troopers find more, injured refugees and Barris takes off to give them a lift. Due to lack of space she stays behind with the troopers preparing an ambush and comes up with a better plan based on that guy from earlier and Luminara’s words about why his disguise failed. The plan leads to the droid forces being caught in a crossfire between the two Jedi’s Clone Trooper groups.
What they got right: At the time this comic came out the only Clone Wars cartoon out was the Genndy Tartakovsky version, and the art work is a dead ringer. It’s also nice to see a Clone Wars period story that doesn’t involve any of the main characters from the movie, which this version did a few times during the micro-series season. (As I recall the next season of full-length episodes always involved at least one of the main cast.) Luminara and Barris make a good team.
What they got wrong: According to comics.org this story was not a reprint nor was it reprinted anywhere else. Considering how good it is, that’s too bad, actually. As a Free Comic Book Day exclusive anybody who missed out on this issue will probably never get to see it.
Recommendation: I know there are extras and people selling their FCBD works. I don’t know if Dark Horse can have the digital download version, if there was one, now that they lost the Star Wars license as Disney continues to merge everything together as much as they can. If you can find it and enjoyed the first Clone Wars cartoon, I suggest picking it up. It’s a fun story.
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