Star Wars Droids: The Kalarba Adventures (Star Wars)

Rating:
Summary: Great art! Good stories.
Review: If you like the droids in the movies, you'll like these comics! (I'm a Star Wars fan so I might be partial.) As a Dad to 2 boys, 5 and 9, I read alot of comics. These are not beyond my boys' comprehension, and the kids love Artoo and Threepio!

Rating:
Summary: Can be a fun read with younger children.
Review: This is a review of the Dark Horse comic Star Wars Droids The Kalarba Adventure, ISBN 1569710643 published June 1995. This TPB comic collects Star Wars Droid Special, issues 1 to 6 and an 8 page Topps story. Made in Canada.

What is included -
Introduction by Anthony Daniels 3 pgs.
C1 Welcome to kalarba 26 pgs.
C2 The greed of olag greck 26 pgs
C3 The indobok pirates 26 pgs.
C4 The saga of c-3px 26 pgs.
C5 Battle of the brknaa 24 pgs.
C6 Short cut 26 pgs.
C7 Artoos day out 10 pgs.

C8 Countdown at hosk 26 pgs

This comic is nearly 200 pages. The inking is excellent for its day on high stock paper but by todays standards, I rate it a C- to C. The pencil-artwork is on the newspaper comic strip style for the most part. Artwork is therefore in the D to C range. The stories are cute but due to the lack of light saber fights, My son and I never finished reading all the stories together. It was a matter of him selecting a different comic containing more action for me to read with him. My son is also ADHD.

I think that this can be a fun read with your children, who can sit and focus, or like my 5 year old daughter, who just likes sitting with dad and reading. I originally bought these comics so that I had Graphic stories to read to the kids. This is a good one for younger children At 224 this is a large comic. Since Dark horse has had trouble producing comics with good binding I was concerned about this offering. The one I have is OK, but these were made in china, where the binding problems exist. The older ones made in Canada were OK.

It was fun to read some of these with my son. For most people I think they will consider these to be 2 to 3 stars in quality, I will round up to 3 since my son enjoyed them. completist.