c.1977?/1978 | age 9 That’s it. Make sure she’s dead before you even rescue her. Luke’s nose looks a bit sideways? Like an Irish TV newsreader (or is that just their weird lighting? I’ve never been able to decide). Cor,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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108: “You’ll make a space pirate yet!”
early-mid 1978 | age 9-10 Here… how come Han says ‘Space Pirate’? Isn’t he a smuggler? I wonder where that originated. I mean, he may be somewhat criminal, but I don’t think he boards other people’s ships and robs them. Blammo! The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
early-mid 1978 | age 9-10 This is probably one of the 2 or 3 funniest scenes in the whole film. I missed out some of the best lines though: “Well…. uh, more wealth than you can imagine!” says Luke—to which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1978 | age 9-10 Today we’re still in early 1978. And we get another of my favourites! This is when Star Wars really takes off for me, when Solo shows his true colours and refuses to get involved in any rescue[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Old and wobbly. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that I drew these ones. They’re so weird looking! George was going show the kids this, in 1977! – until the studio reined him in Punc-tua’tion! Again, I begin to doubt that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Art (?) Notes “BEN KENOBI JEDI-NIGHT” This most juvenile of all of the pages must have been drawn in December 1977 – or very early 1978. I’m astonished at just how rudimentary the drawing is! You could be forgiven for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Original and Best I internet-troll myself, for making all of thosechanges to the original version of Star Wars – the Irish comic adaptation; and I wonder about ‘Sandtroopers’ and… ‘Droide’? Sandtroopers? When was that moniker invented? I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
059: Smouldering Piles
Early-mid 1978 | 9 years old This is one of my favourite pages in the whole comic with loads of colour! Engage VTO! I reflect on the late Irvin Kershner, vertical-take off/Anti-Gravity, gruesome charred bodies, and burning piles. Ouch! But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Death Valley Tatooine Artwork Notes Good old green felt-tip! Needs must, when there are no blacks or greys left. Do you like the skeleton skull of the Space-Cow?Ah yes, the ubiquitous cow. Notice that « Ben never said to Luke “A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Sandcrawler that stopped at Uncle Owen’s place Neee-owwwwww! Or however it is that you do race-car sounds. I bloody love this. Sorry if you don’t but I really, really do. You know, I might actually compile all the really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…