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Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

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Star Wars Tales of the Jedi is finally out on audio CD it tells the story of the jedi knights 4000 years before Star Wars Episode 4. Star Wars Tales of the Jedi & Star Wars Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith are a must read. These stories are heavily referred to when playing Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic & Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords. This is a great story to listen to and sounds even better on audio CD, I'm glad the publisher released it to audio CD this no doubt is a timeless classic.

Dark Horse Comics strikes gold again in this graphic novel sequel to "The Sith War". Disgraced Jedi Ulic Qel-Droma wants nothing more than to escape his past. His treacherous actions during the Sith War (albeit while under the influence of the evil Exar Kun) devastated the Republic, rendered the Jedi archive planet of Ossus uninhabitable, and even caused the death of his brother Cay Qel-Droma. Now blind to the force due to the rage of former friend and lover Nomi Sunrider (another Jedi), Ulic simply wants to find a remote planet far away from civilized worlds where he can live out the remainder of his days to atone for all the pain he caused. Ulic believes he has found solace in a remote ice planet where no one will ever think to look for him. Things, though, are not well back in the Republic. Nomi Sunrider, now a highly respected leader in the Republic and among the Jedi is holding the first Jedi convocation since before the Sith War with the intended goal of promoting healing and growth in the galaxy. Alas, there is still bitterness among some Jedi due to Ulic essentially going unpunished for his actions during the war, most notably Sylvar, whose mate, Crado, died by Ulic's hand during the war. In addition, Nomi's busy schedule has caused her to neglect the Jedi training of her daughter, Vima, causing Vima to seek another Jedi to train her...Ulic!! This will lead to an intersection of lives where Ulic's quest for redemption, Vima's desire to learn the ways of the Jedi, Nomi's guilt over her daughter and Ulic, and Sylvar's thirst for vengeance in a climax where every one's very soul is at stake.

As with other graphic novels, the artistry conveys the depth of emotion to a much greater degree than simple words can. The desolation of the ice planet Ulic chose as his own self-imposed prison is unmistakable, as is the look at pain and despair crafted into each of Ulic's features. "Redemption" pulls no punches, as the journeys and solutions are very real and very believable. The feelings and emotions of such ordeals could easily be imagined and applied in real life. This story provides a satisfying, if bittersweet, finale to the story of Ulic Qel-Droma and the history of the Jedi of that era.

Redemption is the last of the Tales of the Jedi comics, a series that recounted the events during the Great Sith War 4,000yrs ago. Redemption is better read after at least reading Dark Lord of the Sith and The Sith War. The conflicts here are on a personal and emotional level, not another interstellar battle.

A decade after the Jedi defeated the Sith reemergence, a fallen Jedi wonders the galaxy for solitude, blind to the Force and searching for absolution for past crimes. But when a young girl decides he's the ideal candidate to tutor the Force to her, and a bitter Jedi wants to hand justice to an unpunsihed war criminal, they find they all have much to learn from each other on a frozen world.

The quality of art is much better than the horrible fare Tales of the Jedi is renoun for. While the superb art and vibrant colours inherent in current Star Wars comcis was not available at the time of the TOTJ series, that Redemption was clearly better could have said more for its earlier siblings. Here, you won't find salivating mouths, half-rendered illustrations, or simplistic dialogue. The primary characters have defined roles, where age and events have changed appearances, and an ending that will touch your heart.

However, at times there are just too many single, even double, page shots. This flows the pages to the end way too fast. Some panels and scenes were a bit absurd, but the overall quality of this story balances things up. Qel-Droma genuinely looks grey, as though the price of his actions have drained all colour from his features; while young Vima is bright and chirpy, the vengeful Silvar predatory and relentless.

I'll never understand why Nomi is half bald for a human woman.

Overall, if you've suffered through the earlier comics, this one is a fitting end to the series. And even if further fault is found within, solace can be taken in the fact that we are shown places we rarely have seen, and not yet another Tatooine visit for the twentieth time.

I missed this title when it was released, but luckily now it's released in TPB. A closing chapter from Tales of the Jedi series, the story really breaks your heart. As you might know, the Jedis survived the war with the Sith (Exar Kun). But that war didn't passed without sacrifice. Lots of Jedis were killed during the war. In this book Ulic Qel Droma, the fallen Jedi, seeks for redemption. Peace for his past crimes and sins. He searched for the force but never found it. Now he looks for peace in Yavin 4, the place where the war ended. Nomi Sunrider, another leading role in Tales, now becomes an important figure in the Jedi. While her daughter, Vima, becomes a teenager. Wanted to be a Jedi like her parents, but Nomi always busy with her work among the jedi. Vima, desperate and filled with dreams, flew to find a person which she believed is the only person competent enough to teach her the Force. Ulic Qel Droma. She found him in Yavin 4 and asked him to be his teacher.

The storyline is very good. The self-conversation of Ulic, the dialogue with the images of his dead Jedi master, the dialogue between Ulic and Vima, and finally the death of Ulic (murdered by an ordinary pilot-who-wanted-to-be-famous-by-killing-a-Jedi). I wished the dialogue between Ulic and Vima could be deeper. Something like a daughter and a father. Or perhaps Ulic's teaching to Vima how it felt to be a Jedi. And how it felt to be lost forever. However, what's written in the book satisfies me. It's a book all Jedi-fans should have. It really fits as the end of Tales of the Jedi series.

If you liked the star wars trilogy on the big silver screen and would like to continue reading such sci-fi adventures, then look no further for tales of the jedi is a very good place to start. I have enjoyed the audio edition very much. the various stories within are very entertaining and easy to follow with lots and lots of action. For instance characters like Ulic Qel Droma and Nomi Sunrider are constantly undergoing the many trails and tribulations as jedi apprentices. here you see how they inevitably must and will confront and engage in battle against an ancient fallen jedi,Freedon Nadd and his followers. The descriptive sceneries throughout this story lend themselves to good imagination. The music and the special sound effects are superbly well done. I highly recommend it for a long drive.

This out of print and ultra-rare graphic novel, 'Tales of the Jedi: Redemption', is in my opinion a step forward from the previous 'Tales of the Jedi' (TOTJ from here on) storylines/graphic novels in terms of artwork. Actually, a step forward is incorrect: the artwork has progressed by leaps and bounds! However, as is usual with Star Wars, the storyline is the same ol', same ol' with little to offer readers and newcomers (although SW nuts and fanatics would eat this up, or anything George Lucas does for that matter).

One of my grumblings with this one is the writing style of the plot via Kevin Anderson. For some reason, Anderson's dialogue always feels rushed to me. While comics are not real life, a good creative team is able to force the reader to suspend their disbelief through an intriguing storyline, lucid dialogue, and beautiful colors. From panel to panel, a good artist knows which poses and facial expressions to put in each one to give the mind the illusion of continuous movement on, what are otherwise, stagnant frames on a page.

Normally, in terms of dialogue, the transition from panel A to panel B is a fluid motion; however under Anderson's writing, the action expressed via dialogue from panel A to panel B feels more like panels A, B, C, and D squeezed into two, A and B, thus giving the impression of a "rushed" feeling gleaned from Anderson's too fast-paced writing. The story in 'Redemption' literally goes by in one big blur, not ever really giving you a chance to focus on any one situation, develop any characters, or become situated with one area. (The latter, "planet-hopping", has always been a staple of Star Wars and while the oodles of worlds makes the SW Universe seem eternally vast, a negative side to this is you never really get to take in everything of one particular place because everyone's always moving around.)

As I mentioned earlier, the storyline found in 'Redemption' is the same old SW formula: a talented but arrogant and overzealous Jedi falls to the dark side (this time, Ulic Qel-Droma), commits evil acts, and later has the internal desire to redeem themselves. The Jedi archetype - a basically good person does evil but becomes good again - worked once, but any more than that and it becomes boring, stale, and...well...dumb. (SEE: The overuse of the `twin archetype' in Star Wars, e.g. Luke/Leia, Jacen/Jaina, Gav/Jori, etc.) If you're a Star Wars junkie, you'll eat this tasteless, drab, substanceless drivel up, but truly, if you've seen/read one SW movie/comic/novel, you've seen/read `em all really. How many ways can you flip the same formula without it getting monotonous?

While the story isn't great, it's slightly enjoyable if you have about half an hour to kill (the graphic novel is five issues long). However, some parts are laughingly far-fetched and unrealistic. For instance, the Jedi knight Nomi Sunrider (yes another cheesy SW archetype: the legendary surname; e.g. Sun-Rider/Sky-Walker...it worked once guys, not again.) fails to train her only daughter Vima because she's so caught up in politics (ooo exciting). Hmmm...okay, what about all the other Jedi knights that could've trained her, including the weird Jedi rhino-ankylosaurus Thon (who is supposed be close to Nomi because her husaband Andur was supposed to train under Thon)? And I just shook my head at the way Nomi and Cathar let the space pirate Hoggon get away at the end...weren't you guys going to chase him down or something??!?!?

While I thought Nomi sucked, Tott Doneeta's character was flat, Vima was basically an Anakin prototype in the form of a girl, and Ulic's flat dialogue got boring at times, I did think the cameo made by the Arkanian Jedi Master Arca was nice; actually, I think Arca's pretty darn cool (he looks like a character from WarCraft or something).

Like I said, if you have time to kill or are between graphic novels, this one'll serve as "filler reading". It's not very good but enjoyable under average circumstances. This is the only TOTJ graphic novel that had artwork worth paying attention to which probably makes up a small percentage of what the overall plot lacks. As this title is rare and out of print, it's not cheap, so in my opinion, I don't think it's worth spending your hard earned dollars on. Luckily, I found it in the comic section of my local library and saved some money.

This interesting book is the final book in the Knights of the Old Republic series. The series is a collection of graphic novels that takes the reader to the Old Republic, thousands of years before the events of The Phantom Menace.

This graphic novel brings the story to its conclusion. Ulic Qel-Droma is a broken man, blinded to the Force, and exiled from everything he has known or loved. But, Ulic's past is catching up with him. Nomi Sunrider's daughter, Vima, is looking for something missing in her life, and thinks that Ulic might just have it. And, Sylvar, mate of Crado, is looking for Ulic to gain the revenge that will allow her to release her hate. Ulic has walked a long hard road, and he has learned a thing or two...

My twelve-year-old son is a big Star Wars fan, and he picked up this series so that he could keep on learning about the Star Wars universe. Overall, we found this to be a great book, and a fitting end to a great series. The illustration work is very good, and the story is gripping. We enjoyed the action and the many different creatures and races that are the hallmark of Star Wars.

Yep, we both enjoyed this book, and highly recommend it to you. We highly recommend the entire Tales of the Jedi series!

Redemption takes place 10 years after the Sith War, or on my Time Line, 3986 before NH. It is a TPB Comic collecting the issues 1 through 5 of STAR WARS: TALES OF THE JEDI REDEMPTION.

It is the continuing story of Ulic Qel-droma including Nomi Sunrider. Exar kun has been destroyed and Ulic stripped of his powers. This is his story of redemption, and his journey back to from the dark side. This is also supposed to be a story that is in the holocrons discovered 4000 years later.

We are still in the old republic Era but this comic released in July, 2001 presents Art and coloring that are a stunning improvement. Dark horse is on it way to arriving at the products that they finally start releasing in 2002.

On the SW timeline this is the first time we get to see the future of art, drawing and coloring that dark horse will be putting out in the future and it is spin chillingly great! Made in singapore, the binding is good and can stand the stess of someone actually opening the beook and reading it. After Dark Horse moves manufacture to China, the binding takes a sharp decline. Any attempt to actually open and read the comic can result in it falling apart in your hands.

This is written by Kevin j Anderson, so the continuity and foreshadowing are all here for those who are actively reading the SW offering of comic and Novels. I know Kevin gets his knocks, but I am a fan. He is one of the two authors Id love to meet and talk to. Kevin, I hope you are alive and well! I also still argue that his JEDI ACADEMY trilogy is extremely important to the expanded universe.

The story at times appears to be a splice job, but that is not uncommon with dark horse. The cover is one of the worst ever produced, so turn the cover page out of site and enjoy.

The audio casette is lossely based on the comics from dark Horse. i have given the best of these comics 3 star out of 5. i found this multi cast productions to be a little hard to follow. The focus is on the action and dialog, and they sacrific some of the background. The actual production and mixing with the music is excellent. You may want to have read the comics to help you know the full context of what is going on. I have every SW audio book ever made because i listen while driving my motor home. I prefer the full narration provided under the normal, one reader format. My one regret is that very few of the books come unabridged. I have only found a couple that were. If you have been following the Old Republic comic on the Star Wars expanded universe, you may enjoy these. See if they are at your library first before you buy though.

This takes place some 10 years after The Sith War. All the characters have changed, grown old, morphed (the tiger female looks way cooler) and grown up. Nomi Sunrider's daughter is a teenager now and wants to learn to be a Jedi. Ulic Qel-Droma is hiding on some ice world and wants to die. She seeks him out to learn the ways of the Jedi. The reason I took away a star was because how she found him. Some random guy (who looks exactly like the guys at the start of the original Star Wars) took Ulic to the snow planet and she just randomly picks a ship to stall on and guess who's ship it is? 10 billion people in the universe and she picks the guy who saw Ulic a day earlier. Wow, ironic, eh? There really is no bad guy in this story, it just shows Ulic teaching the girl. The closest thing to a bad guy has to be the good Jedi tiger girl, Silvar. Anyhoo its a good book to end the series with.