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…
Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? Luke and Han are found by the Rebel Snowspeeder search team. I’m stuck for time at the moment—hence the late appearance of this Friday installment on a Saturday—so I’ll keep any waffling about this page very[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? Han braves the hellish Hoth blizzard to save his friend Luke. Hell? Yes, this was an odd sounding bit in the Star Wars universe, but something similar has since appeared in The Last Jedi, when Laura[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 12/13? | 1980/81? A scene in Empire that’s reminiscent of old Hollywood: Hepburn and Tracy, and Gable and O’Hara. Gone with the Ice Storm And you know what? When the Empire Strikes Back poster was being created, one of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 12/13? | 1980/81? We meet the Droids designated Artoo Detoo and See Threepio! That “designated” line is lifted straight from Roy Thomas’ script in the Marvel adaptation of ‘Star Wars’. I hadn’t copied it into « my own version[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 12/13? | 1980/81? Han and Luke are on patrol on icy Hoth This comic has begun with the Imperial Star Destroyer above the planet Hoth, lauching probes, as I think the movie does. But neither the Marvel comic adaptation, the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 14? / 1983? The planet Hoth, as autographed by Kenneth (Admiral Piett) Colley! Autographed Page Up until a few years ago in Ireland we had a pretty regular staging of the INVASION events, featuring the costumed Emerald Garrison—and!—actors and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1978/79? | age 10/11? 2nd-last page of the comic. Today, spelling really gets throne out of the window. Did I really spell ‘back’ as ‘bak’?—and then correct it? Maybe I was just so much more eager to draw, that I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1982/83? | age 13/14? Luke must have caused panic and terror down at the rebel base, by turning off his targeting computer—just as the Death Star is about to fire! But I suppose he’ll be OK no matter whether he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1982/83? | age 14/15? There’s no time left to mourn Biggs’ passing, so Wedge is told to shut up. This page is largely drawn from cherrypickings of the Marvel version, with minor re-arrangements Art Notes Let’s face it: panel 1[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…