this is Obi-Wan & Anakin from 2016. Published by Marvel, writing by Charles Soule, pencils by Marco Checchetto, editors Jordan D White and Heather Antos.
A small prelude explaining some Star Wars comics historical bullshit:
This series is an interesting example of something that will become more clear as I continue to write these writeups, but in the early years after the Disney canon reboot - about from 2015-2018 or so - there were a lot of these miniseries comics. Usually between about 6 and 8 issues, effectively 'oneshots' that explored a small region of space or time, and largely not followed up on in future issues, at least not directly.
I have a number of theories why this eventually faded into a more stable, Marvel-style "ongoing series buoyed by crossovers and occasional Events" model that we see in 2018-onwards in the Star Wars comics line (for better or for worse), but they basically all boil down to one thing:
I think until about 2018, there was a sense that comics were not the best medium to actually push Star Wars storytelling forward, but they could be used "safely" to expand and fill out the (now nearly empty, following the Great Legendsization) canon of Star Wars.
After all, the sequel trilogy didn't finish up proper until The Rise of Skywalker premiered in 2019, and those needed some space to breathe. But there clearly was a sense that comics had a place in the Star Wars publishing landscape.
The result was this really interesting era of storytelling in the 2015-2018 time period where they are publishing all these little miniserieses, scattered all over the Star Wars chronology. It isn't until the movies "get out of the way" that we entered a new type of storytelling in the comics, focused on four mainline series - Star Wars, Darth Vader, Doctor Aphra, and Bounty Hunters, all of which are roughly chronologically synced and release on about a monthly basis (if you're curious, they're currently in the time period between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi).
That said, this is just my theory, and I'm not even sure how right I am. After all, Star Wars the mainline comic actually began its rebooted adventures in 2015, and that's the real mainline that all the other comics dance around. But what is definitely the case is that pre-2018 there was lot of miniseries, some of which were really good and some of which really stunk. That's just not what we have now in the Star Wars comics world, which is more focused on longform storytelling in the four major comic lines.
the actual review:
This particular comic... is mid.
I mean, it's not bad. I like the artstyle, even if the characters don't really feel "right" to me. It's clearly an artist's interpretation of Obi-Wan and Anakin, and it's pre-Clone Wars so references are scarce even if you wanted to search through Legends material.
The storyline's A-plot concerns Obi and Ani going on a rescue mission to a steampunk planet that is embroiled in a sort of civil war. There are mechs involved and I think they really stretch the visual borders of what "looks like Star Wars" but I suppose in a story sense they're fine. Just a bit goofy to see this

in a Star Wars comic. Makes me wonder how much quality check was going on in the Star Wars/Marvel editing rooms these days, since that is just clearly a Battletech-ass mech. But I'm getting distracted!
Because the real meat of this comic is in the B-plot, which consists of a series of flashbacks of Anakin back on Coruscant, learning to be a Jedi and learning to trust Palpatine as well as Obi-Wan.
One of the best moments in the comic depicts Anakin's struggle to square Jedi teachings with the fact that he was basically offered an ultimatum to join, when he was nine years old. That's the angst that I want to see from an Anakin story - the frustration at the fact that even as a Jedi, he can't stop the slave trade that still infects the galaxy. A slave trade that he himself came from.

If you're reading this comic, this is the good stuff to find in it - these moments with Anakin's interiority back on Coruscant. There are some other great scenes in here - Anakin sparring with a modified training droid and Mace & Obi worrying about the boy's advancement, Anakin becoming closer with Palpatine as the Senator begins to plant ideas in Anakin's mind. All the flashback stuff is killer.
The A-plot eventually resolves, in probably the most comical way possible, which I'm going to spoiler for any would-be readers.
end of comic spoiler here
The Republic Navy is called in and they threaten the entire planet to surrender or they'll all die, lmao. republic bureaucracy wins againAnyway, it's five issues, there's about two issues worth of Actually Great stuff in here and then three issues worth of some, imo, very mid-grade Star Wars action adventure stuff. Which isn't bad! But nothing to write home about. The art is solid and the writing is too, and when it has some time to breathe instead of focusing the camera on the sixteen new characters from Steampunk World it's pretty solid.
So in conclusion: read this if you want some Apprentice Anakin adventures, you're interested in any "doubting the Jedi" material (I know that kept me going through most of this), or you just really want to see a "sort of Star Wars" take on steampunk and/or mecha.
