Via Starwars.com:

Happy Rancor explores hidden gems in and around the orbit of Star Wars — from old video games to comics to underrated novels — that have maybe been forgotten, but deserve a little more consideration. In this installment, we take a look at a comic book featuring a lost tale of a Jedi-to-be learning from one of the greatest Masters ever.

There’s a distinct difference between the Yoda we meet in The Empire Strikes Back and the Yoda of the prequels, particularly The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. Prequel Yoda isn’t quite as warm. He takes things more seriously. He takes himself more seriously.

This is by design. When I interviewed Dave Filoni about Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the Yoda arc from The Lost Missions, he explained that the Yoda of the prequels hadn’t yet achieved a greater understanding of himself, of what it really means to be a Jedi, and had not yet been humbled by the Clone Wars. It’s his experience in the Clone Wars and the trials he goes on in The Lost Missions that start to change who he is, and leads him to become the Yoda we originally knew. The one who is wise but compassionate, the one who can playfully mock Luke (“Aw, cannot get your ship out?”) one minute and then teach him profound life lessons the next, the one who accepts his death with grace.

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