SW9 should carry a PG rating - because of this page alone. It's from sometime in 1978 I reckon, when I was 9 or 10. It just goes to show that children - who really shouldn't be allowed to watch slasher films - are nonetheless the best-qualified people to make them. Bless their little hearts.

Art Notes

It's a very shocking image. The rebel soldier has literally been shredded. Like he's been fed through a meat-rendering machine.

I'd initially thought that the top panel was carbon-paper transferred from a Werewolf by Night comic - due to the extreme gore and mutilation but actually it came from the Man Gods from Beyond the Stars strip serialised in Star Wars weekly comic! A comic bought by children of all ages: like my 9 year old self! Would you like to see the original? Compare mine with it. Based on ErichVon Daniken's nonsensical 'Chariots of the Gods?' books it does look like an exciting story. You can see how I drew over the Man Gods art to transfer the image to my own comic!
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"...his head a mass of melted bone and metal. "

I did jokingly write on the old site, that this is "yet more stuff that George should have put in... but he just didn't have the vision of this 9 year old..You know, the sort of gore and splattered brains that 9 year olds instinctively appreciate!" But to be fair, Lucas and Alan Dean Foster themselves are partially to blame because of their vivid descriptions of violence in the 1977 novelisation. He even describes plastic and bone melting. Can bone melt?

Next: A little breather from the horror...

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