15: “Don’t touch that gun!”
1979/1980? | age 11 or 12? What the dagg does dagg mean? Maybe I was inspired by Battlestar Galactica’s ‘Daggit’, and the swear word ‘drokk’ from 2000ad?
Luke Shoots Him in the Goolies
Luke warns the intruder not to touch his gun, and reluctantly shoots him. His initial reluctance overcome, he then shoots him in the private parts just to make sure. At least, that’s what it looks like. I suppose it’s another example of drawing a gun pointing the wrong way, then having the shot not go where you intended.
Remorse?
Above: Is Luke slumped in his seat with relief—or remorse?
The last panel is messy and all over the place in terms of perspective, but it’s still quite ambitious and nice. Han’s looking down at the slain intruder’s body, rubbing his head, and probably pleased. But Luke looks a little unhappy, or maybe even remorseful about what he was driven to do.
On the right, we get a nice little vignette of Leia assuring Chewie that “Han’ll be alright.”
Hey, I just noticed—Luke’s in his farmboy clothes again. Remember how he was in his Throne Room ski-jacket <a few pages ago on Yavin? It looks like he did a quick change onboard the Falcon. Maybe that’s why it didn’t seem obvious that he was actually onboard until they emerged from Hyperspace an <Leia called over to him to fasten his seat-belt.
Oh, Han says that “he tried to kill me”. What, with his mind? Why not just shoot Han instead? No, It looks like the intruder was either trying to drive Han mad, torture him, or maybe even teach him something. Will we ever know?
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Luke changes clothes as quickly as he changes his gun hand!
Oh yeah! I hadn’t noticed that!
It’s funny, I recently drew a 6 page test script of Judge Dredd for 2000ad. And I actually had to THINK about him holding his gun—and being right-handed—when I composed not just a single panel, but and entire page! It affected how he stood, which way he faced and the the arrangement of eveything around him.
Han appears to be an ambidextrous shooter on this page
http://starwarsage9.com/comic/hans-luke-plan-goes-into-action/
I suspect that’s the case in all of my comic stuff. i better I never even gave it a thought!
I like the effective use of color on these pages.
Hi Rob, thanks.
I’m wondering why I made some of the colour choices.
For example. Luke’s clothes are drawn in greys and then light blue. Why did I make that decision?
Also, I used 2 greys in his clothes. The darker pen didn’t look as if it was running out, so why switch to even lighter grey? In panels 2 & 3, the lighter grey pushes Luke back and focuses our attention on the foreground hand and gun. Was that intentional? I’d be very impressed if it was. But thre’s no way of knowing.
Or could I have been drawing it in bed at night, with a bedside lamp, and I couldn’t easily tell which marker I was using?
One time, I had a lamp with a red shade, and I was colouring in a black & white page of Spider Man comic. Just his blue and red costume. Next morning I looked at it, and it was in green and orange!