i'm sure there has been a few dozen locked threads about Maul being in ROTS over at TFN.

but yea, i thought that comic was a little lame. obi-wan suddenly aged 10+ years, as well as hiding under the sand?!

or the strange fact that maul was all over obi-wans schedule, but then took 3 years to get to him?! lol. well it can't be much worse than the Superman comics where jimmy olsen gets superpowers every issue and tries to kill Superman every week.

So did Grevious' own people set him up? Because it looked like Dooku's droid activated some sort of explosive device on the ship. Damn that's messed up man, oh well, death to the Jedi!

You'd think that in a time where they can travel across the galaxy, use force shields, and create mile high buildings that they would be able to grow limbs instead of using prosthetics. Guess not.

Hahaha that Maul story is freaking funny, he travelled all the way around the galaxy to beat Obi Wan, and he gets his ass kicked.
I like how he describes the pleasure he had in killing the pollis massans, they can't even scream hahahaha.

How do we know that Maul didn't survive the gunshot to the head?

The TV series that Lucas is talking about might be entirely about Darth Maul, and he is the six million dollar man. We can rebuild him. We have the technology.

That last line by Palps in the Grievous story tells me that all this will transfer directly to the creation of Vader, too. Down to making him more agressive.

Exactly. Or maybe it could be a battle droid's head, like what happened to C3PO. That would be awesome. I can picture the wacky antics and hijinks now!

I've have the Lone Wolf & Cub episode "Baby Cart at the River Styx" on DVD so I can dig Ben's tactic(ooh bad pun).



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I really liked the GG one. Great artwork.


The Maul one was pretty good too, though the idea of him returning is one I've never been fond of (though I really did dig his character). The last page with Owen and Obi-Wan was really well done. Love the part where he talks to Luke through the force.

Actually, all EU sources that don´t conflict the movies or each other are C-canon. Together with G-canon (the movies and whatever Lucas says in addition) they form the overall official continuity.

Now, if anyone wants to follow that or not is entirely up to the individual, of course.


If they can grow clones, they can grow limbs. Still, metal parts would be more useful in fights.

But Palpatine's regret that Anakin was not what he wanted could've been remedied by some more limbs or skin graphs. Or hell, he could've simply tried to clone Anakin. I think that's what he wanted though, look at the mechanical bad-ass that is Grevious.

I never understood the massive EU loathing.

If it's not your cup of tea, then that's perfectly cool. But some of the EU bashing posts I come across read so much like the person posting them feels personally threatened by the EU's existence (at least that's how it "reads", apologies if I'm wrong). No one's forcing it down anyone's throat. Don't like it then don't read it, that simple. Some of the reactions I read about it, people get so defensive about "canon" it gets ridiculous.

"Canon" as used in the case of a fictitious universe where nothing is actually canon in the truest sense of the word (which is biblical in origin, which similarly the words "Star Wars" are mistaken to be by some ), is in the eye of the beholder. You want to just accept the movies as "canon" then you go right on ahead. No one's civil rights are being violated, and Dark Horse isn't sending assassination squads to each of your individual homes to either accept their stuff as "SW canon" or die. It's the same principal that those who argue against hyper sensitive censorship put forth: something on the radio or TV offends you, then that's what the concept of "channels" was invented for.

We can grow clones right now in real life. We don't do it with humans because of ethical concerns, but we do it with other organisms all the time.

Even if we removed all ethical guidelines, we would not be able to grow a usable limb.

The Grievous comic was pretty cool. It gives some substance to the character, though I think the whole Sifo Dyas thing was lame.

The Maul one was horrid. Absolutely horrid. It's ideas like that that give the EU a bad name. Bringing back Maul? That is as lame as bringing back Boba Fett. People wonder why some say that the EU isn't canon. Simply because some sheep gets the idea that bringing back maul to fight an already grayed Obi-Wan is a cool idea, it's all of a sudden canon? Please.

And to the guy who was getting his panties in a twist over the

I think the Maul-comic was made for fun, just to see if the concept of "bring back Maul" could be done well. In my opinion, it was. Even as I hate the mere thought of it, it was executed well. And I´m glad to see it was a short story, like the aftermath of Vader and Obi-Wan´s fight in ROTS (which the duel in ANH is, when you think about it). A long storyline would just stretch the (ludicrous) concept out into boredom.

And once again, people, stop acting like the EU is a threat to your person. It´s just stories meant to add to the films (and make extra bucks), you´re not required to read any of it to enjoy the films themselves.

Darth Maul could end up being like Nordberg in "The Naked Gun". Where he just keeps on getting maimed, but keeps coming back for more. They could edit him into AOTC... maybe just a quick scene where he's chasing after Obi-Wan, but gets run over by a car or something. Then, something similar in ROTS.

Then the thing in the comic happens.

Then he's added, digitally, into the OT. Have him on Alderaan, waiting for Obi-Wan, when it is destroyed. He has his battle-droid head at this point. He gets killed there, and then we have some scenes where his ghost is always trying to kill Obi-Wan's ghost in the next two movies. But Obi-Wan's ghost never even notices, as Maul will always step on a rake or accidentally drop an anvil on himself, or launch himself into space on an Acme rocket, just as he is about to get the drop on Obi-Wan.

I like the idea of turning Darth Maul into the Star Wars equivalent of Wil E. Coyote.

SW ain´t never supposed to be real, man.

Vinceyoung,

Beautiful!

Since we now live in an age where the advantages that cloning technology has to medical science is rapidly becoming apparent it is a bit odd that Vader is confined to what is essentially a 'Life support suit'. Obviously the idea that you could 'grow' a replacement arm from your own DNA wasn't around in the 70's when Star Wars was thought up so I do cut the idea some slack. But since the PT has shown that the Star Wars galaxy has Incredibly advanced cloning technology there is no logical reason why Vader is put in that suit.

Maybe they still can't regrow severed axons from the CNS in a way that they would re-form and synapse at their original targets. Fucking oligodendrocytes are still fucking us a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. This would be a reason to put him in the suit if his lungs don't work.

poor watto

Watto was an asshole

Dp you like my version of Darth Maul's last stand, Darth Maul's actual last stand that we saw in Episode I, or Darth Maul's stupidest stand, as we see in that comic?

Wow - both those stories were great! Very cool....so glad I brought Visionaries @ Amazon.com yesterday! What are the other stories like in the book?.....

Actually, that's not the end of Darth Maul by a long shot.

In an issue of Star Wars Tales set shortly before Episode 4, some of Palpatine's Dark Side scientists have cloned Maul and re-trained him in the ways of the Sith and lure Vader to some planet to fight him. Vader ends up killing Maul by stabbing through himself to get to Maul, and then Palpatine comes and kills the scientists and pretends to Vader that he had no role in what happened.

In another issue of Star Wars Tales, set much, much later on, Luke Skywalker is on the Zabrak home world of Iridonia and a ghost-like image of Darth Maul attacks him. The locals say that the ghost has haunted them for years. Anyway, Luke uses to Force to track down the source of the apperation to a lab, where Darth Maul's brain is preserved in a jar and hooked up to a machine that projects ghost-like holograms of how he looked when he was alive. A scientist comes in and says that he preserved Darth Maul's brain so he could have his 'revenge' and then leaves, and Luke shuts down the machines preserving Maul's brain, killing the former Sith Lord once and for all.

So, yes, as far as the EU goes, he's come back to life 3 times in 3 separate stories.

And no, I'm not kidding about any of this.

But they are able to make the mechanical limbs interface with the organic body and the individual can still operate the mechanical bodypart without an outside influence, so this does hint at the use of an axon or some other means of the transduction of a nerve impulse at the correct sites. I think it would be fairly easy to construct an artificial axon; I have no idea how you would construct a synapse, unless you just let the signal go from the axon directly to the dendrites and then the cell body.

I don't see why Sidious took a more mobile approach for Vader, i.e. Maul or Grevious. Or maybe the choreography just limited Vader's agility and speed in the OT.