1978 or ’79 | age 10 or 11 Luke goes in, X-Wing Fighter guns blazing, and seems to scare away all of the Star Destroyers. What gives? Genuine Suspense! What do you think the ‘r’ in R-Bomb stands for? Answers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1978 or ’79 | age 10 or 11 Cor… hundreds of Imperial Star Destroyers! But what good are Snub-Fighters going to be against them? Spelling!—and Lettering “What happened to the Death Star—we heard nothing about it.” Then how did you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 10/11, 1979/1980? Han bursts into the Cantina discoteque, sees the Stormtroopers, who’ve called a truce—for the shared love of disco—and then murders them. Stormtroopers Lettin’ Their Hair Down! I couldn’t imagine working in the blazing Tatooine heat, in a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 10/11, 1979/1980? The Star Wars disco is interrupted by an Irish party political broadcast! Whoo-hoo! Can this get any better? As Olivia Newton John might have sang, “Let’s get p’litical, p’litical—I wanna get p’litical, plitical, lemme see your body[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 10/11, 1979/1980? The hot hits blasting from Mos Eisley Cantina Disco have attracted Imperial attention… and Han Solo prefers punk rock? Yep, it’s Wuher’s cantina like you’ve never ever seen it before! I wonder why? Jabba’s latest hit, “Does[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 10/11 1979/1980? It’s the front cover of the ‘Disco Force’ Star Wars comic, with Luke and Leia disco boogieing-down on a Saturday Night Fever style dance floor! Yes, here is the worst Star Wars comic ever made!—by me, when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 14/15? | 1982/83? Oh wow… a Who’s Who Page! I have very fond memories of poring over the Who’s Who page on the inside cover of Marvel’s British Star Wars Weekly comic when I was 9 years old. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 14/15? | 1982/83? Yep. That’s it. This is as far as I got with the Empire Strikes Back adaptation. Clearly, I wasn’t as determined to finish it as I was when I was drawing the «’Star Wars’ one. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 14/15? | 1982/83? Luke crash lands on Dagobah. Doesn’t he have infra-red, or space-radar? Art Notes It’s mostly action on this page. Panel 2 and 3 are a bit too similar for a comic layout, but perhaps I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 14/15/16? | 1982/83? Asteroids! Art Notes So, what does Han have in his toolbox, apart from (*chortle*) Hydro-spanners? Let’s see… A Spoon?—for eating his cornflakes while he’s sat staring at masses of wires and gizmos, trying to figure out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…