Who is...was Grievous?

[stillakid]

From the looks of it, he appears to be a precursor to Vader, so his presence sort of sets up the story possibility that a human in really bad shape can be kept alive.

But what is his background? Who was he as a human? How did he get that way? Who diced him to the point where he needed this exoskeleton to survive?

[darko666]

you will get all your answers by buying the Star Wars Visionaries book. "The Eyes of Revolution" by Warren J. Fu, who created Grievous, made a back story for him. the book consists of other short stories. i mainly will buy it for the Darth Maul story.

http://www.starwars.com/eu/lit/comics/news20050315.html

[El Chuxter]

Check out Labyrinth of Evil as well. It has several bits about Grievous' origins.

[Beast]

Grievous' origins are documented in the Star Wars: Visionaries comic book.

"The Eyes of Revolution" - Story & Art: Warren Fu

SUMMARY
A Kalee general is greatly injured in a shuttle crash. His body is picked up by Count Dooku and brought to Geonosis for an experiment. His body is rebuilt as a droid, and trained to become the leader of a great droid army.

THE STORY
This is my favorite story in this anthology, only for the fact that it is the one and only origin story of General Grievous. Not only do we see his home planet, his accident and his reconstruction, but we also see that he was chosen by Darth Sidious and Dooku even before he joined the Separatists. It seems to take place sometime before the Battle of Geonosis. There is also a sub-plot about Dooku picking up Sifo-Dyas' frozen body on Serenno to get his blood for transfusion that begs to be explored more deeply, but that is for another story.

THE ART
Another reason this is my favorite story is that Fu's art is by far the best. His photo-realistic paintbrush style is some of the best I've ever seen, and the character likenesses are just amazing. I would love to see more artwork like this is Star Wars comics.

MTFBWY and HH!!

Jar Jar Binks

[plasticfetish]

I haven't seen ROTS yet, are there footnotes at the bottom of the screen that tell us where to go for character back history? ;)

[stillakid]

you will get all your answers by buying the Star Wars Visionaries book. "The Eyes of Revolution" by Warren J. Fu, who created Grievous, made a back story for him. the book consists of other short stories. i mainly will buy it for the Darth Maul story.

http://www.starwars.com/eu/lit/comics/news20050315.html

I picked it up briefly in Barnes and Noble a couple of weeks ago but didn't look too closely at it. I may have to reconsider. :) Thanks for the heads up! :)