Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? Poor Dack gets killed as Cliff from Cheers and Threepio look on… That looks like John Ratzenberger (Cliff) from Cheers standing by Threepio in that silly Alphabet sticker thingy. There’s also a stuck in photo clipping[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? The rebels try to trip up an At-AT Walker with a Snowspeeder’s tow-cable’ Copy-and-Paste Cor… that’s a lovely mag/news clipping that I put in there! I also seem to have enhanced it by adding some laser[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? Anxiety increases on echo base as does the potential for ‘toilet humour’ . Script Notes Very Silly “That droid’s Imperial, we’d better evacuate. Start the evacuation!” “Oh, I think I already have. “Master Luke, it’s good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? Han generously allows Chewie to be the one to stand out in the open and draw the probe droid’s fire. I can’t help thinking that there was some comedy potential in this scene. Was it ever[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? There’s something verrrrry Dracula-like about that Wampa. My Star Wars Influences Its quite possible that it was inspired by Gene Colan & Tom Palmer’s amazing artwork on Marvel’s Tomb of Dracula comics. Tomb of Dracula (ToD)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1982/84? | age 14/15? I loved the sound of Vader saying “I’ll take him myself” on the audio tape segment that I recorded from the BAFTA awards show—in 1978? I would no doubt have still been thinking of that as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1982/83? | age 14? The drawing’s pretty good in this one—especially in the bottom panel. My God, it’s almost like… a photograph! I don’t know why, but for some reason I always liked Howard Chaykin’s image of Luke’s fist scrubbing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1983?|age 13/14? I’ve published this page on a Tuesday, readers. Not on the usual, regular Mon | Weds | Fri. Simply because this one wouldn’t have been worth the wait until Wednesday. There’s a glued-in pic from Niall F’s Star Wars[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bravery-Bypass Circuits One of the nice things about reading this comic is that it makes the actual film feel fresh and new again. Not because this one looks old and crappy and smells of damp (it does) – but rather,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crikey! Was I was really avoiding doing any drawing at all on this one? I think I just had the clippings of Threepio and wanted to use them. Including a Star Wars bubble-gum trading card. It’s a cross between a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…