http://starwarsage9.com The unofficial, and unintentionally comic Star Wars comic strip adaptation that I started drawing at the age of 9, in 1977; with its various revisions and evolutions. All accompanied by grown-up commentary en-us http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/crash-landing-22 Comic Friday: (1981) Crash Landing (22) Well, Warlord Comic would seem to have been quite an important influence on this one - more's the pity! In a corny page to end all corny comic pages we get a total Nazi-style Imperial officer; and yes, THE worst most corny line ever "Kick it hard". Love to see your comments! And please click the 'Top Web Comics' banner after reading to give support in the easiest way. http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/crash-landing-22 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/meet-death-star-again-21 Comic Wednesay: (1977) Whe-heyyy! We get to gaze upon the Death Star a second time. Oh how I love these old pages. I mean, I was only 9! They really really take me right back. No need for rulers - no need to even draw around a saucer to make a circle! Plus, some news on an upcoming site feature! Love to see your comments! And please click the 'Top Web Comics' banner after reading to give support in the easiest way. http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/meet-death-star-again-21 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/bigguns-20 Comic Monday: (c.1980) At last! It was like pulling teeth but I finally made it... "A biggun', a shiny helmet and imminent head-on collision." Today's long-delayed page comes - slowwwwly - from the hilly wilds of Baltimore, County Cork. 2 minutes to load a page? Agggh! Love to see your comments! And please click the 'Top Web Comics' banner after reading to give support in the easiest way. http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/bigguns-20 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/leia-shes-a-bit-rough-19 Comic Wednesday: (c.1978) Girls who spit, Council-Estate Facelifts, and massive black markers. But... Lucas beats me to it once again. Why wasn't it in the film though, eh, eh? BONUS: Roll-over the page for the 'Special Edition' version. Love to see your comments! And please click the 'Top Web Comics' banner after reading to give support in the easiest way. http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/leia-shes-a-bit-rough-19 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/stunning-leia-18 Comic Friday: (c.1982) Leia looks absolutely hideous on most of the early stuff. Then we get to the 1980s and I'm obviously beginning to really appreciate the female face and form. For the first time in this comic we see an attempt to do Carrie Fisher some sort of Justice! But in space - THERE ARE NO NIPPLES! Love to see your comment! And please click the 'Top Web Comics' banner after reading to give support in the easiest way. http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/stunning-leia-18 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/droids-escape-17 Comic Wednesday: (c.1980) The droids escape in the life pod and I wax lyrical - and nostalgic - over those stuck-in trading cards. Happy days in a very old-fashioned rural Irish village in 1977. Love to see your comment! And please click the 'Top Web Comics' banner after reading to give support in the easiest way. http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/droids-escape-17 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/sw9-blog/47-the-comic/122-sw9-special-editions The Blog: Have a look at the new, full-colour, exciting SPECIAL EDITION page. Love to see your comment! And please click the 'Top Web Comics' banner after reading to give support in the easiest way. http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/sw9-blog/47-the-comic/122-sw9-special-editions http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/life-pod-f-toom-15 Comic Bonus! (1977) Check out the new 'Special Edition' of the Life Pod F-Toom! page. This is first full-page to get the treatment. Love to see your comment! And please click the 'Top Web Comics' banner after reading to give support in the easiest way. http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/life-pod-f-toom-15 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/we-meet-biggs-16 Comic Monday: (c.1980) It's another scene deleted by George Lucas. But... just who is kissing who? And have a look at the 'Love hearts' - was I kidding? Do you think Stan Lee would have passed that visual device if I'd submitted it to him?. Love to see your comment! And please click the 'Top Web Comics' banner after reading to give support in the easiest way. http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/we-meet-biggs-16 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/life-pod-f-toom-15 Comic Friday: (1977) A lovely early one today. Hitchcock is smiling down on me now. And a little word sketch of the local village 'newsagent'. Love to see your comment! And please click the 'Top Web Comics' banner after reading to give support in the easiest way. http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/life-pod-f-toom-15 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/we-meet-darth-14 Comic Wednesday: (c.1980/81) James Earl Jones to the rescue! Did you know Darth is a personal friend of mine? Love to see your comment! And please click the 'Top Web Comics' banner after reading to give support in the easiest way. http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/we-meet-darth-14 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/we-meet-luke-13 Comic Monday: (c.1980/81) Today we get one of those 'what-if' scenes. Young George was a discerning director in those days. He knew that more isn't always MORE. Love to see your comment! And please click the 'Top Web Comics' banner after reading to give support in the easiest way. http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/we-meet-luke-13 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/3p0-entangled-12 Comic Friday: (c.1980/81) The battle is drawing to a close. Today's strip - without meaning to boast, seems to give a bit more depth than the film does to the actual human experience of warfare. And what has Austin Powers got to do with it? Love to see your comment! And please click the 'Top Web Comics' banner after reading to give support in the easiest way. http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/3p0-entangled-12 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/blood-and-gore-10 Update: (c.1977 and 1981) Not a new page today - but a different view. I took courage and steamed-off the glued-in photo to reveal the original drawing. Love to see your comment! And please click the 'Top Web Comics' banner after reading to give support in the easiest way. http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/blood-and-gore-10 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/mechanically-recovered-rebel-11 Comic Wednesday: (c.1977/78) Monday's page was for wimps... SW9 should carry a PG rating - for today's page alone! It just goes to show that children - who really shouldn't be allowed to watch slasher films - are the best-qualified people to make them. Bless their little hearts. And, a nod to talented illustrator Alex Nino. Drop in - read - look - and comment! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/mechanically-recovered-rebel-11 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/blood-and-gore-10 Comic Monday: (1981) Today's gore-fest is a wee taster of this coming Wednesday's edition! If you think this is extreme stuff you might like to read the '77 novel which was a major bad influence. Interesting that Lucas was inclined toward gore - and cuteness. But downright ODD that he should put both in one film! Drop in - read - look - and comment! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/blood-and-gore-10 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/stormtroopers-break-through-9 Comic Friday: (1982) Oh, the innocence of youth! Yesterday I was trying to figure out where the heck all the speech bubbles were going to go in a new page and realised, "Hang on, this comicking stuff is... WORK.". I also find some unexpected colour in the movie. Come back Howard Chaykin! All is forgiven! Drop in - read - look - and comment! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/stormtroopers-break-through-9 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/something-stinks-8 Comic Wednesday: (1982) Stinks so bad - you can see it. (It's called synesthesia). And some thoughts about the 1977 novel which supplied actual decent text for this page. Drop in - read - look - and comment! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/something-stinks-8 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/meet-threepio-and-artoo-7 Comic Monday: (1977) ...and the Stormtroopers start to burn through the door. And... should 3P0 (the gay English butler) really have been dubbed by Samuel L. Jackson? Drop in - read - look - and comment! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/meet-threepio-and-artoo-7 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/rebels-prepare-for-the-attack-6 Comic Friday: (1977) Anatomically, things are a bit iffy! As I said: these are anatomy lessons for beginners - so pay attention if you want to draw like a beginner! And a few words about Dynamics, Contrast and Pacing: Crucial tools of the good filmaker. Drop in - read - look - and comment! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/rebels-prepare-for-the-attack-6 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/tantive-sucked-up-5 Comic Wednesday: (c.1978) Today's page REALLY sucks but we get a couple of memorable lines! And I swear: this is the last one in which the Imperials 'CONTINE' to blast the Tantive. Why does the Devastator find Leia's ship so heavy? Drop in - read - look - and comment! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/tantive-sucked-up-5 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/tantive-iv-captured-4 Comic Monday: (c.1980) Plus: Today you get an advanced illustration lesson. It's my patented Smudged Spit and Felt-tip Pen technique. Are you man enough to try it? Drop in - read - look - and comment! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/tantive-iv-captured-4 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/tantive-iv-pursued-3 Comic Wednesday: (c.1980) Camp dialogue, "Oh, we'll prepare alright". Is it a ship full of sarcastic rebel hairdressers perhaps? "Curlers at the ready girls!" Oh, and added tits today courtesy of Monty Python; as an antidote to my discussion on art. Drop in - read - look - and comment! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/tantive-iv-pursued-3 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/tantive-iv-pursued-2 Comic Wednesday: (c.1977) "The Imperial Empire" indeed! And our late-dog Polly preferred Star Wars to Blake's 7 - it seems. Chewie! Drop in - read - look - and comment! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/tantive-iv-pursued-2 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/sw9-blog/re-launched-a-rewound SW9 Blog: A new blog post about the re-launch. And it seems I might have some competition from my young fella, wiat 'til you see the picture of Vader and and his best pal Fett! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/sw9-blog/re-launched-a-rewound http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/tantive-iv-pursued-1 The Comic: (c.1980) A ship named 'Devastator'? Well I suppose it's better than 'Pinafore'. And a humourous imaginary exchange between the two ships. Drop in - read - look - and comment! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/tantive-iv-pursued-1 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/opening-crawl-0 The Comic: (c.1980) The famous 'crawl' doesn't become any more exciting when crudely drawn in felt-tip pen does it? My son (age 4) watches this with mounting boredom, irritation and finally anguished tears. Drop in - read - look - and comment! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/opening-crawl-0 http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/cover The Comic: (c.1980) The ol' presentation's leaving quite a bit to be desired! As you can see, it's been crudely reinforced with brown packing tape. Classy.. Drop in - read - look - and comment! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com/index.php/part-i/cover http://starwarsage9.com News: Star Wars age 9 is bigger, better and more interactive. Drop in - read - look - and comment! Love to see your comments. As ever, please click the blue 'Top Web Comics' banner and give a quick Vote to SW9. Thanks! http://starwarsage9.com