13: Uggh… Tauntaun guts!
Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? I can C U Luke! More of those silly sticker thingies.
Smart
“Damn, I knew it couldn’t take the cold.” And Han did it anyway. But I suppose that’s called risking your life for your friend. So—fair enough! Good on him.
This is quite a cute picture, isn’t it? Awww… would you look at Luke?
You can be dead sure that I was looking forward to drawing AND COLOURING this page. Ho ho ho. Blood, glowy and reflecty lightsaber effects, and GUTS! Yuck, yellowy, Tauntaun guts. By the way: that’s what little boys are made of.
Cor… tauntaun guts!
I don’t think I used the fluorescent markers on this page, as I so often did on my earlier ‘<Star Wars comic’ adaptation. Perhaps I was realising that intensely bright colour effects could be achieved without resorting to those. I mean, look at Turner’s paintings. He didn’t have fluorescent pigments, but my God they look blindingly bright! Those are c.1840 oil paints on canvas which have accumulated grime and varnish and discoloured and darkened. More impressive still, are his watercolour paintings which also dazzle. Every January the National Gallery of Ireland and—I think—the National Gallery of Scotland exhibit their Turner watercolors, during the darkest time of the year, in low lighting to preserve their brilliance (it was a requirement of the bequest). And goodness, do they dazzle!
Slave Ship: J.M.W. Turner—c.1840
I wish I’d seen some of these paintings when I was a kid. But art galleries weren’t really much of a thing in our house.
Fancy, glowy, reflecty saber FX!
I’d love to read your comments below! Were you revolted by this scene in the film—and my comic, or did you love it 😀 ?
A green lightsaber — looking into the future again!
As a kid I also thought Luke spent the night in tauntaun guts, but later viewing showed he was probably in there only until Han got the shelter up.
When Han finally pulled him into the shelter, and sealed it up, do you think he wondered–in that confined space–if he should instead have risked leaving Luke on the snow while he erected it?
I wish 13/14/15 year old you had fully couloured these pages so we can see where you stood on the Han Solo’s jacket colour controversy? Have you shaded it in blue because you were drawing with a blue pen? Or is it because his jacket was blue on the action figure? (Not like the actual prop, which was brown but reflected the light strangely.) I still have that action figure, his jacket was definitely blue, I don’t care what your real life props say…
Well, I learn someting new about Star Wars every day. I had no idea about any controversy, Dan!
It all flared up a few years ago after that thing with that dress:
https://mashable.com/2015/04/10/han-solo-coat-blue-or-brown/#80A04JfceZqc
I think I thought it was blue. Helped to differentiate Han from Luke.
It didn’t help the publisher of the novelisation to get it right though. One of the photos of Han on Hoth on a Tauntaun is captioned as being of Luke :p But to be fair, in that photo it looks like it could be either colour.
When we were kids we probably expected publishers of Star Wars stuff to know as as much about it as we did, and were astonished when they got things wrong.