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| When They Were Brothers (Star Wars: Clone Wars, Vol. 7) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Haden Blackman, Miles Lane, Brian Ching, Nicola Scott
Publisher: Dark Horse
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 66691
Media: Paperback
Edition: Graphic Novel
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10 x 6.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 1593073968
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781593073961
ASIN: 1593073968
Publication Date: December 14, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 Decent, but not great... July 30, 2006
Not the best entry in the series, but still pretty good. As others have mentioned, Obi Wan acts a bit out of character, and the art is somewhat sub-standard. Still, a decent story, and a necessary addition to anyone following the Clone Wars story.
 Excellent continuation of the story... March 16, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Volume 7 does a great job of continuing to lead us right up to the point where Episode 3 begins. It adds a whole new level to Obi Wan's character to see his obsession with finding Asajj Ventress seeming to consume him, to the point where he even pursues it during his "off-duty" time. You always expect to see plenty of development in Anakin's character...but it's very nice to come to know more about Kenobi, and to realize the pivotal role he played in the final days of the Republic. A great read!
Action Packed!!! March 16, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book has lots of action. i felt kind of confused with it because the clone wars tv series says that obi-wan kills durge on munnillist. it also said that anakin killed ventress on yavin 4, but in the book it said he killed her on corusant. but over all the book has many suprises and twists. i gave this book a 4 out of 5.
A few flaws, but overall one of the best... March 13, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This volume is a lead in to Labyrinth of Evil, shortly before Episode III. It is mostly a very compelling story of Obi-Wan and Anakin, including many of the prequels most important characters. I don't want to give any spoilers here, but the biggest flaw in this book is the search for Asajj. I'm so sick of them sticking her back into all the stories somehow, that I can't even begin to explain. So because of that, I would give this 4.5 out of 5 stars. Other than that, I would call it a must read book.
Writer monkeys with Obi-Wan, Kenobi goes ape February 18, 2006
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
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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