Colonel Gaderafii Sticks It’s just one of the versions of that moniker that I often used. Gaffi – Gader-fii, Gader-afi, Gaddafi… Creative Lettering “AAAA EEEEEEEEEE” It flows from Luke – top-left – across the assailant and down the page as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Art Notes It’s as if they’re playing ‘hide-and-seek’… or as if Luke really is his master. Artoo excitedly zips over to Luke – speed lines and all. “Get off my leg goddammit!” Well, so much for his former master: Obi[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Art Notes Skipping to the good bits Yep, still at the droid sale – but we are making some progress. And sudden, rapid progress it is too! Luke gasps those immortal words, “She’s beautiful!” A lot is compressed into one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hmmm… ‘don’t recall that bit This is a bit of a 1977 curio! I was so pleased to discover this page separately from the rest of the comic. An unexpected pleasure. Pretty funny, but it also seems as if it was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
SFTPaS-SFX And with a Karate cry – Artoo gets zapped by a Jawa! More patented «Smudged-Felt-Tip-Pen-and-Spit SFX, and the judicial use of stuck-in «collectible bubble gum cards. For ease of pronunciation and memorisation, let’s from now on, call it: SFTPaS-SFX. There: simple.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Art Notes: Spider-Sense Jawas! Well, I’m smiling again now. Sorry to be self-centred but this page brings back all sorts of memories as it’s another one of the earliest ones. Funnily enough there’s no real build up in the drama.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s page is a goody! We see the Jawas at last. And it’s another of those “what if George had taken this approach?” sort of affairs. We get to see what actually happened to poor whinging pain-in-the-arse Threepio after he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Goodness me. Artoo—a droid sheds a tear! And this, from the child who—a couple of years earlier—gave us the horror of the «shredded Rebel soldier? You see: slasher films and comics do not (necessarily) a psycho make. I’m quite impressed with the sense[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
3PO and R2 find themselves in the desert wastes of desolate Tatooine, in this final page of Pt.1: And things get a bit mixed-up in today’s instalment. The blowing up « escape-pod and crash-landing on Tatooine scenes are a bit mixed up but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
later 1978? | age 10? This page certainly “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 Art Notes Awesome It’s funny you know,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…