1979/1980? | age 11 or 12? Where the hell did that giant come from? Jack the Giant Killer? The Thief of Bagdad? What’s it doing in this comic?!? Weird and Weirder! You’d almost suspect that there’s some long-range, pre-plotted master[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1978 or ’79 | age 10 or 11 Luke goes in, X-Wing Fighter guns blazing, and seems to scare away all of the Star Destroyers. What gives? Genuine Suspense! What do you think the ‘r’ in R-Bomb stands for? Answers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 14/15/16? | 1982/83? Han’s relishing the prospect of impressing Leia And it looks as if Chewie is too. Look at the grin on him! If we could see his hands, he’d be rubbing them together. Art Notes That Imperial[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 13/14/15? | 1981/82/83? Cor… this is another action-crammed, snowspeeder-exploding page. You can really tell how much I wanted to be a comics artist when I grew up! Script & Art Notes This page owes nearly everything to Al Williamson’s[…]↓ 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 14/15? Another single panel page today, readers. I think I might do another bonus page tomorrow too, like I did yesterday. Art Notes “Wedge is the only Y-Wing left – that T.I.E. just cancelled another one!” Cancelled?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1978 |age 9/10 Han has to make the leap through the blast doors! Hey, do you think he should have been called ‘Hands Solo’? Or, ‘Hands So-big’? You might miss it, but that’s Chewie’s lower leg just vanishing though the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(early) 1978|age 9 “Full reverse Chewie”—and keep on shakin’ it! Solo decides to turn tail and get the hell out of there and then… POW!—the Millennium Falcon is grabbed by the Death Star’s tractor beam. And as always, these very oldest pages keep[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I cringe looking at this page, although (or because) it depicts Alderaan’s destruction with great emotion. Motti looks like Mr.Hyde! He also has that Warlord Comic «evil Nazi look again. There must be a couple of pages missing here. I hate to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Send all the Cruisers? Send all the Cruisers?” Says a voice in his earpiece… “You’re a lowly STORMTROOPER. Who do you think you are? Sod off!” Film Notes One of the fondest memories that Niall F and I shared of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…