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? A scene which only features in the Marvel comic—I think—with Han and the medical droid 2-1B discussing the mysterious death of a tauntan. I added a bit more dialogue, which reminds me of the scenes in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 12/13? | 1980/81? Luke performs Jedi telekinesis for the first time in a Star Wars movie! And he comes very close to slicing his own feet off! It’s very tempting to say that this is a more mature page,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 12/13? | 1980/81? Luke finds himself hanging like a stalactite from the ceiling of the Wampa’s cave Slim pickings today folks. The young me decided to do a full page panel for this moment. To make up for it,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Age 12/13? | 1980/81? Luke finds himself hanging like a stalactite from the ceiling of the Wampa’s cave A New Jedi Ability This scene might seem like nothing very special now, because we’ve seen Jedi performing all manner of increasingly[…]↓ 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? Luke gets walloped by a Wampa! Hence explaining those little changes in poor Mark Hamill’s face that appeared since the previous film. Movie Trivia Funnily enough, last night I found a 1980 clipping from one of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…