Sabotaged Droid

Sabotaged Droid (Spanish: Droid Saboteado) is a two-page comic from Beaumont Studios that was released in 1986. Published by Editorial Gepsa under the MyComyc imprint, it was written in Spanish and released in Spain.

Rich Handley's plot summary

After acquiring the droids, Jann Tosh brings them to Roon's communication satellite to visit his friend, Professor Smith. But the academic's droid, XR — reprogrammed and armed by General Koong — captures them upon arrival. Artoo outwits the sabotaged droid and rescues the others.

Development

Mycomyc featured a number of Droids and Ewoks strips in 1986 that were rediscovered in 2013 when a fan named Adolfo Rodriguez mentioned them on the DarkHorse.com forums. The comics were translated into English by Star Wars author Abel G. Peña, with his colleague Rich Handley re-lettering them. The comics were then made available for download on their respective websites on April 10. The original author is unknown.

Continuity

Dark Horse's Vice President of Publishing, Randy Stradley, was interested in including the Mycomyc strips in a future Star Wars Omnibus publication. When he inquired at Lucasfilm Ltd. about whether they had been officially licensed at the time of their publication, Lucasfilm found no paperwork proving that Editorial Gepsa had actually licensed the titles, despite the presence of appropriate copyright information. Nevertheless, Handley and Peña strongly suspect that the licensing did occur, although Handley has asserted that "the strips' legitimacy is considered suspect for now, and Dark Horse has no plans to reprint them unless documentation emerges." Despite this, however, elements of the comic were later established as canon due to their inclusion in the second part of the ongoing StarWars.com Blog series The Droids Re-Animated.

Appearances

By type

Characters	Creatures	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Koong (general) (First appearance) Akary Smith (First appearance) Jann Tosh Unidentified Human male (Professor Smith's wallscreen) (First appearance)

Droid models

Droid Astromech droid R2-series astromech droid R2-D2 Protocol droid 3PO-series protocol droid C-3PO XR (First appearance)

Locations

Roon Roon's communications satellite (First appearance)

Sentient species

Human Koong's species (First appearance)

Weapons and technology

Blaster Camera Wallscreen

Miscellanea

Death (Mentioned only) Laboratory (Mentioned only) Prisoner Satellite

Sources

• Droids and Ewoks Return: Spain's Lost Star Wars Comic Strips on StarWars.com (backup link not verified!)
• The Droids Re-Animated, Part 1 on StarWars.com (article) (backup link not verified!)

External links

• Abel G. Peña: Ee Chee Wa Maa! Translating Spain's Long-Lost Ewoks and Droids Comics (2013-03-25). Hasslein Blog published by Hasslein Books (archived from the original on May 15, 2013 on May 22, 2013)
• By Eddie van der Heijden: A Day Long Remembered for the Star Wars Fan Community (2013-03-25). Hasslein Blog published by Hasslein Books (archived from the original on May 15, 2013)
• Obscure Droids and Ewoks comics -- translated by Abel Peña on the Jedi Council Forums (Literature board; accessed May 15, 2013) (backup link)

In other languages

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