“I KNOW YOU DON’T KNOW YOU MANIAC” An odd line this. I’ve wondered where did I get it from? Well, imagine my surprise as I listened to Episode 1 of the 1981 Radio Adaptation the other night – and there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
IPC’s old weekly Battle Comic—which featured the awesome Charley’s War—was probably an influence here in my version of Star Wars. Unlike DC Thompson’s gung-ho Warlord Comic precursor, which I grew up on, Battle tended not to pull punches – and had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
SWa9 should carry a PG rating – because of this page alone which was partly inspired by the great work of comic artist Alex Nino. I think it’s from 1978, when I was 9 or 10. And it just goes to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another “I can draw like the pros page“. But a ruler wouldn’t go amiss. Script Notes When I returned to this comic I was interested in some of the out-of-place nuggets of quality writing that appeared in it here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Film Notes Today we finally meet the adorable Threepio and Artoo! Isn’t it wonderful when a filmmaker – and an actor get it so right? Could you make the world fall in love with a tin-can? This was yet another magical scene when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…