Commencement

"The events of this story take place approximately 3,964 years before the Battle of Yavin"

That seems like a rather exact amount of years for an approximation. Anyway this is the first volume of Dark Horse's Knights of the Old Republic series which turns out to be set before the games take place. The story mostly consists of meetings and set up. We've got a young Padawan who is framed for a crime and ends up on the run with a shady dealer type alien, a young women who is (for now at least) quite hostile toward him, a crazy old engineer and of course a robot. It all seems to be a bit generic, which is a shame. Along with that the artwork is not the greatest I've seen either. If has some interesting moments and with all the set up out of the way is has potential for the future. Unfortunately overall that made it a bit disappointing, it's just not very exciting. Even though it had the locations, the species and the technology I just didn't get the Star Wars vibe from it which I think is the biggest problem. I'm sure that like many things it could take a little time to settle and find its feet so I will pick up the next volume and give it a read at some point but I'm no longer as excited about it I once was.