Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? Poor Dack gets killed as Cliff from Cheers and Threepio look on… That looks like John Ratzenberger (Cliff) from Cheers standing by Threepio in that silly Alphabet sticker thingy. There’s also a stuck in photo clipping[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? Anxiety increases on echo base as does the potential for ‘toilet humour’ . Script Notes Very Silly “That droid’s Imperial, we’d better evacuate. Start the evacuation!” “Oh, I think I already have. “Master Luke, it’s good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? There’s something verrrrry Dracula-like about that Wampa. My Star Wars Influences Its quite possible that it was inspired by Gene Colan & Tom Palmer’s amazing artwork on Marvel’s Tomb of Dracula comics. Tomb of Dracula (ToD)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? I can C U Luke! Force–Ghosty thing It’s interesting isn’t it? Phil Custodio alluded in his comments to the previous page, that there might be a kind of ‘Last Jedi’ trick going on, in that Han[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? A scene which only features in the Marvel comic—I think—with Han and the medical droid 2-1B discussing the mysterious death of a tauntan. I added a bit more dialogue, which reminds me of the scenes in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 12/13? | 1980/81? We meet the Droids designated Artoo Detoo and See Threepio! That “designated” line is lifted straight from Roy Thomas’ script in the Marvel adaptation of ‘Star Wars’. I hadn’t copied it into « my own version[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, here’s the cover! As you can see, I preferred to use the official artwork and design than make my own. Anything that made it seem more like the real thing—more official—was a plus for me! This image was lovingly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1982? | age 14? Hey, Leia’s doing that ‘Heroine standing in the observation room while the male heroes fight’ —thing. But I thought that was a Michael Bay trademark? Oh, I feel dirty now, after mentioning that director… Film Notes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1982/83? | age 14? The drawing’s pretty good in this one—especially in the bottom panel. My God, it’s almost like… a photograph! I don’t know why, but for some reason I always liked Howard Chaykin’s image of Luke’s fist scrubbing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1981/82? | 13 years old? This is a good line from Han Solo! How can he crack jokes about such an agonising, imminent death? I mean it’s minutes or even seconds away! There can’t be many worse ways to die. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…