It’s just ‘pants’ Possibly late 1978 or sometime in ’79. I do like this one of the stormtroopers in the desert. “I can’t see anything!” “Have you tried BINOCULARS?” And what about the Stormtrooper in panel 3? Running figures are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mid-1978? | age 10? Indeed: What’s a duck? Put aside those philosophy and self-help books dear reader. All the wisdom you’ll ever need is before you–right now. Read on… This was, one of the pages which most spurred me into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Art Notes: Tiniest of Details I posted a comment to Blue Milk Special‘s webcomic some time ago because I’d discovered a peculiar and amusing panel in Howard Chaykin‘s Marvel adaptation of Star Wars. Have a look at it on the left.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Meeting Luke for real I love the way the film is structured. As George himself said, the film is mostly carried for the first 20 minutes by the 2 droids. “We’re seeing the story through their eyes.” This was borrowed from Kurosawa‘s[…]↓ 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…
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…
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…
Leia spits on Vader, and… exciting news just in: the English language has a new word: IMBICLE! And, check out the SPECIAL EDITION version, below! Art Notes Blimey – she’s a bit rough! Yet again, I can’t claim all the credit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1982? This is a much later page today, possibly c.1982, starring for once–a non-ugly Princess Leia! Also it’s just better-quality work! I reckon the graphic effect behind the Stormtrooper must have been lifted from another comic – not the Marvel version. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apparently the fighting is still raging on. Maybe because the urge to kill another rebel ‘is strong in this one’. Such a sweet boy. See the stuck-in trading card? Nostalgia: Trading Cards Waxy, gummy, glossy magic Those chewing gum cards were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…