Art & Text Notes

Super oldie page today: definitely late '77/early '78. You know, back then, I was still extremely confused about how to do all the comic-art style lines around the cheekbones. And noses were a cause of bafflement. But, at least there's a bit of colour; possibly added later, with markers that were got for my tenth birthday.

Notice also how the aforementioned chin-dimple (bottom-right) has to get a look-in even when the face is turned away? It seems to be quite mobile. Poor Threepio looks pitiful.

More artistic-license has been taken here with the plot and the action - but we like that don't we?

Ben's already appeared from nowhere and the fearsome Tusken Raider's fleeing into his cave. Without so much as a Krayt Dragon call. Then, Luke gently whispers 'BEN KENOBI' (broken outline but latterly added exclamation mark) followed by Ben SHOUTING

QUIET SON THEIRE COMING BACK!

With us so far? And just in case the reader's brain has killed itself without first noticing the stick-figure Tusken Raider running off into his cave, we get a few little lines radiating out from him. What do you think of him making a final attempt on their lives with a chucked Gaffi Stick?

(Thinks)"Haha - take that! Crap - missed. Now how do I get it back again? There I was, coming back, and getting away, safe and sound and just for the hell of it - I disarm myself!"

And a final piece of nonsense:

Luke says "Some Jedi my uncle new said 'es dead."

Never mind the mangled sentence which I can still only barely comprehend without getting brain-strain... But blimey guv'nor. Luke's gorn all Dick Van Dyke cockney he 'as! What were you thinking young John?

Film Notes

Apparently Gaffi sticks are fashioned from extremely tough armour-plated space freighter hull. So probably a real bugger to make - when you're stuck out in the desert living primitively. So why would you throw it away?

Berk.

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