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.1981/82? | 13 years old? This is a good line from Han Solo! How can he crack jokes about such an agonising, imminent death? I mean it’s minutes or even seconds away! There can’t be many worse ways to die. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1981/82 | age 13? There’s an odd mix of drawing ability this one. Panel 2—the closeup on Ben—shows an ability beyond my young years. So why is the bottom one so badly done? Puzzling indeed. Panel 2 actually reminds me somehow,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1979? | age 11? Let’s see what Ben’s been up to. While his compatriots are being attacked by a monster and mashed, Kenobi’s been stealthily finding his way to the tractor beam controls. Here’s the novelisation’s take on it: “Secure[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1978/79? | age 10/11? It’s a wibbly-wobbly, hard to read one today. It’s hard to tell when it was drawn, too. The stormtrooper, top-right looks to have been quite carefully copied from somewhere. I’m guessing it was from the Marvel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
early 1978 | age 9 You can write this stuff JOHN but you can’t say it. I love this page, partly because it’s one of the oldest, earliest ones, but even more because of this crammed-together line by Han Solo:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
early–mid 1978? | 9–10 years old Starring…Kevin Bacon! What the hell’s going on with this movie? A different actor per character in every panel? Well, I suppose being strangled by the Dianoga’s tentacles was was good preparation for his role[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One year on! c.1982/1983? | age 14? I’m creating and publishing today’s page on the move (written in 2013?). Gabby’s in the driving seat as we head down through Ireland to Baltimore, County Cork. Amazing to think that I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1982/1983? | age 13–15? I have Leia saying the trash compactor is ‘vacuum sealed’, just as Luke says in the Marvel version; but in the movie, Luke frantically yells, “Will you forget it? I already tried it. It’s magnetically sealed!” So Luke, Leia and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1982/1983? | age 13/14? When I get to this bit in the film I realise that’s it’s all bang-bang-bang: non-stop excitement. From one perilous situation into another. And this—this!—is the scene in which the trio of Hamill, Ford and Fisher[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…