Star Wars age 9 Comic Book

And we’re off: Part 6 begins. The interrogation of Princess Leia, from around 1978. This scene in the film always brings a smile – oddly enough! Are you injecting – or skewering me?” Look! A floating robot turnip!

Are you injecting – or skewering me?

The Marvel one looked quite different!

George Lucas said he wanted things in the film to “look familiar” – even though it was an other-worldly space-fantasy movie. People could relate to it – strange as it all was: it’d connect. Thing is though, that interrogation droid – or whatever it is – is very impressive, scary and futuristic; but it has this laughably familiar plastic syringe attached to it! Same as the ones we have in our own Galaxy. And is that all it does? All that anti-gravity, robotics, weird humming and it just runs into you with a needle? Hey, maybe Vader’s too squeamish to do it himself! Look at the size of it! It’s not so much a needle – more of a wedge.

Ah that’s nice, he gently pulls her sleeve down for the injection.

Art Notes

The artwork here was mostly ripped-off from Howard Chaykin’s Marvel comic adaptation, but the reflective surface of Vader’s helmet is quite well observed. Chaykin didn’t have the floating ball droid thing so I had to do that myself. Floating metal turnip – more like!

Howard Chaykin’s rip off of my version – 1977

A green highlighter marker has been used here. Dad brought some home from work and I was just amazed by their effect. The black is done with a thick permanent marker. The, by now familiar yellow Simpsons skin colouring is due to the ‘flesh’ marker running out.

Or, can’t-be-arsed-ness.