World Famous Comics: Star Wars: Prelude to Rebellion
Star Wars: Prelude to Rebellion
By: Various Publisher: Dark Horse Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Dark Horse Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 144 Publication Date: May 03, 2000 Reading Level: Young Adult
Book Description: Ki-Adi-Mundi is a Jedi Knight of formidable strength and influence. On his homeworld of Cerea, most of the planet`s citizens are happy to continue their low-tech lives of simplicity, isolated from the Republic, but a growing voice calls for the advanced technologies brought by offworlders. When Ki becomes a strong voice of opposition for such development, he is falsely charged with murder and is swiftly drawn into a web of conspiracy and intrigue that could rock the galaxy to its foundations--a web that may have the vile crime lord Jabba the Hutt and the powerful Trade Federation at its center, setting the stage for Episode I --The Phantom Menace
Very ameturic drawing. I got this book, well because it was at the library and I had liked most of the Star Wars comics. This one though had very aweful drawings. I guess the story was goodish, but the drawings of charecters such as Jabba and Ephant Mon were terrible. I would say read it, but avert your vision from the absolutly horrid drawings.
Excellent tie in plot items This graphic novel gives insight on the geographic and socio-political makeup of Cerea as well as a glimpse into the family life of Ki-Adi-Mundi. As a bonus it hints at the first indications of the machanations that eventually lead to the Phantom Menace.
above average Prelude to Rebellion was an ok graphic novel. The binding was very good (something I haven't said much lately) and the story and art was above average. There was only 1 problem, but it was major. It was the plot. The plot was extremely hard to follow at times, and at others it just didn't make sense. The art was worse than Outlander, but not bad either. Prelude to Rebellion is not worth the full cover price, so either buy it used, find it cheap, or just pass it by.
Uneven artwork but still worth a read. This is 32.5 years before NH on my timeline Dark horse originally called this part of its Republic series. Republic series 1 through 6 was the Prelude to Rebellion TPB and takes place at -32.5 years before NH. Dark horse Republic series is now up to individual issue #58. Every 4 to issues is then made into a TPB combining the individual issues into one story. I usually wait for the TPB (don't know what it stands for). This comic is about Ki-Adi-Mundi (cone head) from the planet Cerea.
Prelude to Rebellion is the main story, and Vow of Justice follows. Prelude starts out very slow and the coloring and inks are all over the place. As for the story - It starts out like a childs Disney story. But when people start losing their heads, we know we are in the high violence world of comic books. The story slowly draws you in and I enjoyed having wadded through the beginning. It is a story about Ki the father of 9 daughters and no sons. Because on 1 child in 20 is born a boy, Ki has several wives. (Gee and Anakin couldn't even have a girl friend?). Seems Ki is having trouble with his teen age daughters, especially one who joins a rebellious group that supports technology coming to Cerea. The Cerea Council is anti-technology.
A secondary story, VOW starts when Ki is 4 years old and picks up 21 years later when he is 25 and returns from training with Yoda to seek revenge for his family.
These stories give us an personal look at Ki and his life and family. I wonder how he dies when Vader wipes them out, all of them.
This is not unusual for Darkhorse to not take the time to do a good job. It seems too bad, that the "talent" people write a story, and then the artistic people do what they are told, but then the bosses don't bother to put out a quality finished product. What I don't know is that if they took greater care and produced a higher quality product, would it sell more? Either way, understand what you get for your [money] evenly produced final product. They may have an excuse this time. The production dates on Prelude are from 1998 to 2000. Darkhorse may not have had the higher quality production techniques that became available later. But still, on the same page you have one picture of the old style, and one in the new style. Some of the art work is 2 (as in fair) but some is a 4 (as in very good). None of the artwork is a 1 (poor).
The New Face of 'Star Wars' comics I'll start out by saying I was a huge fan of Stackpole's ongoing 'X-wing Rogue Squadron' comic series and I found the fact that it was cancelled due to low sales to be shameful. And by no means am I a fan of the New Jedi Order series, especially its beginnings. So you can see why I wasn't quite going into this with an open attitude.
In any case, this start to the new ongoing SW series its obviously different than the XWRS one. I'm pretty sure its the first Episode-I era comic, and it holds its own. It's a small-scale story, wich I tend to like, ostly based off of the planet Cerea. Its a pretty good glimpse into Ki Adi Mundi and makes him into more than a coneheaded freak. I was familiar with Strnad from the XWRS comics, and the overall writing is the same as it was in his arc there- good but not great. The art is a bit too jerky for my tastes, but it, too, holds it own overall.
One flaw I have here is that so much of it is action. The new ongoing series based on the Jedi are very different from the XWRS series in this aspect. In here you get whole pages devoted to single shots, whereas in XWRS they litereally crammed in everything they could to make it all work out and move along numerous storylines and characters.
The Jabba-Ephant Mon connection is pretty good also, and helps set up for the next piece of the Ongoing series. The main reason to read 'Prelude to Rebellion' would be to set up Ki Adi Mundi for his roles and learn more about what was once a background character. (One of the things I really do love about 'Star Wars.') The next installment, 'Outlander' is very good, so I reccomend this as a prelude to that. Not anywhere near the quality of the XWRS series, buts it just starting out. 'Outlander' points it in the right direction.
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