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by Haden Blackman (Author), Brian Ching (Author)
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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Titan Books Ltd (23 Jan 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1845761073
  • ISBN-13: 978-1845761073
  • Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 16.8 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 152,932 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Bridging the gap between "Episode II: Attack of the Clones" and "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", this storyline is exclusive to graphic novels. This is a must read for all serious Star Wars fans! While Anakin Skywalker enjoys a brief respite from the Clone Wars (and a reunion with his secret wife Padme Amidala), Obi-Wan Kenobi embarks on a "personal" mission to verify a rumour that the dark Jedi, Asajj Ventress, is still alive. Obi-Wan is becoming obsessed, and he knows it. But the danger of flirting with the dark side is a risk he's willing to take to save the person about whom he cares most in the galaxy.

About the Author
Haden Blackman is a producer at LucasArts and writer of Star Wars Starfighter: Crossbones. Brian Ching has produced beautiful artwork for the likes of Ascension, Magdalena Angelus, Witchblade and the Tomb Raider/Witchblade Special.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Writer monkeys with Obi-Wan, Kenobi goes ape, 24 April 2007
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What's cool about Obi-Wan Kenobi is that he's so cool. He's the "Negotiator." He's always in control and except for his bickering with Anakin never displays his frustration, annoyance, or anger. In fact the only time he loses it is when Yoda asks him in "Revenge of the Sith" to go after Darth Vader and again when he finally confronts his former Padawan, whom he doesn't have the courage to strike dead as he lies broiling in lava.

So it's a bit odd to see him in this story completely obsessed over Asajj Ventress, the lately deceased bald-headed villainess and student of dark Jedi arts from earlier Dark Horse Star Wars comics and the Clone Wars cartoons. For reasons never made clear, Obi-wan has a bee in his bonnet and her name is Ventress. He's convinced she's alive somewhere and waiting to pounce, so he goes and beats up a Black Sun don (the Black Sun being the mafia in the Star Wars universe), who says "right, you're obviously a better man than me, come have a drink and I'll tell you everything I know about the Confederacy."

Once you get past those two very improbable bits of the story, things get better, and that's do mostly to the fine work of artist Brian Ching, who illustrates some exciting action sequences that owe a great deal in framing and in detail to "The Revenge of the Sith." "Brothers" occurs just prior to the events of the film and was being written and drawn prior to its release. Ching obviously had access to the movie or the developmental artwork because this story features quite a bit of hardware from the film, from the ships to Grievous' Magna Guards. Much of the framing of the action sequences also appear similar in style to Lucas' work in RotS.

But after all the fighting's done, scripter Haden Blackman has to bring the story to conclusion, at which point the characters and events again become rather contrived. [SPOILERS] What we're presented is the Luke/Vader sequence at the end of "Return of the Jedi," with Obi-wan comforting a dying Ventress, searching for a glimmer of the "good" hidden below layers of evil. Any possible sympathy Blackman manages to evoke for the dying Ventress is thrown back in the reader's face two pages later when we find her contrition - and her death - were feigned and that thanks to Sith meditation techniques she is alive and now on the run from the Jedi _and_ the Confederacy, setting up what I'm guessing might be a possible return in the animated Clone Wars series now in production. [END SPOILERS]

Overall, "When They Were Brothers" is not a complete letdown, but it certainly doesn't live up to its hype as a "must read" story leading into "Revenge of the Sith."

The book finishes out with a 22-page story originally published for Free Comic Book Day, an annual marketing campaign by comic book publishers and retailers in the US. Nothing of any significance happens here, just Obi-Wan and Anakin crash landing on a Confederacy controlled planet, riding around on speeder bikes, and hacking and slashing their way through a battalion of droids. Good for what it's worth, but entirely forgettable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ventress' exit?, 11 Nov 2007
As a fan of the Clone Wars and an owner of this entire series (1-9), I now have my own Obsession with Asajj Ventress. In this volume, I was perticularly struck by the amazing artwork in the story. The scenes of the Seperatist amarda, or the battle of Boz Pity are excellantly portrayed.

The major storyline plots of this book are based around Obi-Wan's 'obsession' with finding Asajj Ventress. Believed dead after Anakin 'killed' her on Coruscant (Clone Wars Volume 6, On The Fields Of Battle; The Rendili Fleet Crisis), Obi-Wan is determined that she's still alive, and undertakes a hunt that takes him from the Black Sun headquarters to Boz Pity. Several major events also happen in this story, making it the perfect tie for several loose ends.

(SPOILER ALERT!!!) Firstly, it shows the fight between Durge and Anakin in which Durge is fired into the sun in an escape pod. Then it shows the death of Adi Gallia and the maiming of ARC trooper Alpha at the hands of General Grievous, and Count Dooku's half-mechanical resurrection of Ventress. This is the first footstep after Grievous towards the technology used by the Emperor to turn Anakin into Vader, and is brilliantly tied-off by the near destruction of Grievous by Mace Windu, and the betrayal of Dooku when he turns on Ventress and orders his Magna-Guards to fire upon her. Thought dead by the Republic, she then takes control of the Medlifter carrying her to Coruscant and directs it 'far away from the war and Count Dooku', suggesting a possible return, and that Alpha may infact be on the same ship...

I disagree with the preivious review, as this IS a must read prelude to Episode 3, and even more so to Labyrinth Of Evil, the last story before Episode 3. Well put together, this story covers the end of the major Seperatist commanders Durge and Ventress, and provides a proper introduction to Grievous. 5/5
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