Aaaand… it’s the end of Pt.V, readers. Bye bye Tatooine! Thanks for reading, and for your comments. Comments keep the site alive! And I love reading them! That’s not to say I’m just fishing for compliments of course. ‘Tatooine’ by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Old Jedi, he say: “Do like… whatever.” In the film, it was one of my favourite lines delivered by Alec Guinness. I bet he added the “of course” bit himself. Guinness was always marvellous at portraying devious craftiness. I think that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“..he’s me!” I’m not keen on this page which might be from 1980 or even later, 1982? It’s very difficult to tell. The following pages of Luke in Ben’s house drag a bit with multiple versions of the scene, so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mid 1978? | age 10? The search for R2-D2 begins in this comic page from sometime in 1978, when I was 9 or 10 years old – so it’s one of my favourites. I suppose it’s impossible to convey the magical sense[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Art Notes Uncle Owen looks so shabby in this that I’m surprised that I didn’t go so far as to draw stink fumes and flies buzzing around him. Reminds me of what my wife Gabrielle said about Rainbow‘s‘Long Live Rock[…]↓ 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…
“WZ•ys†” (or words to that effect) As they used to say in Marvel comics – there will be a great big no-prize to whoever can guess what that means. We’re getting inside the sandcrawler, with it’s slightly Giger-esque chute. Art[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Art Notes It’s pretty pedestrian fare today, readers. Artoo’s stroll is about to be interrupted. This comes – I think – from around 1982. It’s the ‘I’m a proper artist’ stuff again – so not very funny! The big pack[…]↓ 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…