It’s funny, I always thought the colour in the Marvel comic was a bit over the top, especially in Issue 1 of Marvel’s Star Wars adaptation, and not at all faithful to the film. But do you see what you can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another “I can draw like the pros page“. But a ruler wouldn’t go amiss. Script Notes When I returned to this comic I was interested in some of the out-of-place nuggets of quality writing that appeared in it here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Film Notes Today we finally meet the adorable Threepio and Artoo! Isn’t it wonderful when a filmmaker – and an actor get it so right? Could you make the world fall in love with a tin-can? This was yet another magical scene when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
early 1977 | age 9 Panel 2 will have been copied from the shot of the rebels awaiting the enemy to board their ship, which was on the Trading Cards and later, on the inside of my Soundtrack album. Film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
later 1978? | age 10? This page certainly “sucks” but we get a couple of memorable lines. And I swear: this is the last one in which the Imperials ‘contine’ to blast the Tantive Art Notes Awesome It’s funny you know,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1980-1981 | age 12-13 Camp dialogue, “Oh, we’ll prepare alright”. Is it a ship full of sarcastic rebel hairdressers perhaps?“Curlers at the ready, girls!” For some reason this reminds me of Monty Python’s Everest Expedition sketch from the ’70s. The expedition is manned by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1981 | age 12 or 13 I honestly had no idea where the name ‘Devastator’ had come from when I began this site in 2009. But I re-read the novelisation and there it was! I suppose it’s better than Pinafore. It’s gas.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
early 1978/2010 | age 9/age 42 It’s the special edition version of the «previous page. I drew this when I was 9, and coloured it as a grown-up when I was around 42! Great fun to do. The fun idea[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1977/1978 | age 9 What a weird looking Tantive IV! And I love the “John White Presents” bit! I’ve also done a Special Edition version of this page – for fun. So, two can play at that game George! Watch[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…