Art Notes

""Yeah, we've captured a ship. Whoopee! Me first, me first!"

Now readers, this is more bloody like it! One of my fave pages ever.

I love this page because:

• It's a really old one!
• There's a sense of urgent action - focused on the beardy Death Star Officer and his over the shoulder command (really rude!); which, incidentally conjures an impression of yet more action and more off-screen players.
• And because of the absolute silliness of the dialogue. The opening lines are silly enough but what about the final speech bubble by Han, at the bottom? An attempt at humour?

No, no, no. Intentional humour is never ever going to work. Far better playing it straight, like the characters in the movie Airplane. When you're only 9, the silliness just... comes. Still, I'm glad I did it. Completely daft.

Notice how "YOU BET SIR!" has been changed from "YOU BET LUKE"? This was supposed to make this older page flow from a latterly inserted page. I can't find the page that originally led into this one. It's a bit of a puzzle at times.

Ah, I feel good now after seeing this. Can I hold off adding more pages until the Monday Edition?

Film Notes

On the DVD I have of the lambasted Special Edition (which fortunately also comes with the original version on DVD) - the commentaries are wonderful. Ben Burtt's are fascinating. George talks about the Falcon in the Death Star hangar and the fact that it's parked pointing into the station. When it came to them making their getaway it struck them that it posed a bit of a practical problem. They hadn't considered how it would get out. The rest of what George said about this was so fascinating that it must have damaged the part of my brain that's used for remembering fascinating things. Oh, I can't be arsed... Good night all.

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