MyComyc #4: Sabotaged Droid
Writer: Uncredited (translated by Abel G. Peña)
Penciler: Beaumont Studios
Medium: Comic
Publication date: 1986
Timeline placement: 15 BBY
Meanwhile,
in another universe, Jann Tosh and the droids travel to a communication
satellite belonging to the planet Roon. The droids don't go to Roon
until the series' third story arc, after they've left Jann's service. I
guess technically they could have been there before, but the planet is
treated like a big mystery later in the cartoon so that would be weird.
In this comic, they technically don't land on the actual planet, so
there's that at least. Or maybe it's a different planet called Roon. Or
maybe it doesn't matter because this is clearly non-canon.
Anyway,
Jann is here to visit his old friend, Professor Smith. Unfortunately,
they've arrived just as the professor's droid, XR, has been taken over
by the evil General Koong. Curiouser and curiouser, the cartoon's Roon
arc features a villain called Governor Koong, but that character
is a human being and this one is a green alien. That might be enough to
call them different characters who coincidentally have the same name,
but Jann is also drawn completely differently; in this comic he looks
more like the Mad Max version of Carrot Top.
R2-D2
fires a blaster, which he apparently now has built in to his chassis,
into some kind of reflective surface mounted on the wall. Is it a
mirror? Perhaps the viewscreen that Governor Koong was calling on in the
previous panel? Who knows, the point is that Artoo's blaster bolt
bounces back and shoots off XR's head. Note that the panel depicts XR
standing approximately one foot away from Artoo, so he could have just
turned his head 90 degrees and shot XR directly, thus saving the trouble
of calculating the ricochet.
"Your blasters deserve a hurrah, R2-D2!" says C-3PO.
"General Koong will be getting a big surprise..." agrees Jann. "Ha, ha, ha!"
Ha, ha, ha indeed.
MyComyc #5: Troublesome Outing
Writer: Uncredited (translated by Abel G. Peña)
Penciler: Beaumont Studios
Medium: Comic
Publication date: 1986
Timeline placement: 15 BBY
This
comic begins with the droids enjoying a peaceful outing while Jann goes
shopping. Suddenly, C-3PO falls through a hidden trapdoor in the ground
and finds himself in the laboratory of Professor Broom, a sadistic
kleptomaniac who steals droids and conducts experiments on them until
they're scrap.
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| "Look at them! They're inactive because I deactivated their memory diskettes! You'll end up the same! Ha, ha!" |
Suddenly,
Jann and Artoo burst in, coming to the rescue! But Professor Broom has
the drop on them and is about to shoot them with his blaster. "You
forgot about me... and I am active!" says C-3PO. He cracks the professor over the back of the head with a metal pipe, presumably killing him.
FIN
Droids: Rescue in the Mine
Illustrator: Unknown
Medium: Picture book
Publication date: 1986
Timeline placement: 15 BBY
Jann Tosh and the droids, along with Jessica Meade, have returned to Tyne's Horky to visit Uncle Gundy. While Threepio prepares a classy banquet, there is another cave-in at Uncle Gundy's mine. Artoo manages to save Gundy and several of his miners but Jann and the rest are still trapped inside. "Bip-pi-pi-ta-scrof-ta," says Artoo. That sounds just like him.
Jessica and the droids dig through the rubble and are able to free Jann and the miners. They make a break for the exit and just manage to escape before the whole place comes down around their ears. "Well, now we'll have to start rebuilding the mine," Uncle Gundy complains. Yeah, I hope you build it a little more OSHA-compliant this time, asshole.
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| No, not that Osha. |
Droids: Holiday in Tammuz-An
Author: Unknown
Illustrator: Unknown
Medium: Picture book
Publication date: 1986
Timeline placement: 15 BBY
We now begin our transition back to the tale of The Pirates and the Prince. Jann and the droids are on their way back to Tammuz-an, this time with Uncle Gundy accompanying them for a vacation. I guess after his mine collapsed he figured this was a good time for a little R&R. Unfortunately, they arrive to find that all is not well on Tammuz-an. The Dread Pirate Kylo Ren has returned with his flagship, the Dianoga, and has been menacing Mon Julpa's world in an attempt to steal its reserves of Nergon, "the most dangerous element in the universe." I think this ambiguously official children's book is the only source for Nergon (presumably Nergon-14, the element Kleb Zellock was mining for the Empire on Tyne's Horky a few episodes earlier) apparently being abundant on Tammuz-an, but I guess this can explain why Kylo Ren is intent on harassing the Tammuz-anians in the next episode of the cartoon, maybe?
Jann and Mon Julpa devise a plan to drive off the pirates for the rest of this book so Uncle Gundy can enjoy his vacation in peace. While Jann and the droids distract the Dianoga, Mon Julpa's space fleet sneaks up on it from behind and shoots lasers at it until the pirates retreat. "The intergalactic police won't let him go so soon," C-3PO declares. "Kylo Ren won't be bothering us again!" Oh, Threepio, if you only knew how wrong you are!
Needless to say, all of these aventuras españolas are muy sin sentido. However, they are also very short and very harmless. I wouldn't spend a second trying to track them down, but if you already have them in front of you, you could do as lot worse as far as Star Wars Expanded Universe stories go. You could be reading something by Troy Denning. 😬
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