Saturday, February 21, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 52: The Seven Effective Anger Management Habits of the Sith


Panels from Star Wars: Purge one-hot (December 2005), script by John Ostrander, pencils and inks by Doug Wheatley, colors by Ronda Pattison, letters by Michael David Thomas

Friday, February 20, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 51: The next movie can pretty much be two hours of this as far as I'm concerned


Panels from "Spy Girls" in Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures v.7 (October 2006), script by Ryan Kaufman, pencils and inks by Stewart McKenny, color by Dan Jackson, letters by Michael Heisler

Thursday, February 19, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 50: Bounty hunters worship the lord of planet Fantagraphics


Panels from Star Wars: Jabba The Hutt: The Hunger of Princess Nampione-shot (June 1995), script by Jim Woodring, pencils by Art Wetherell, inks by Monty Sheldon, colors by Matt Webb, letters by Steve Dutro

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 49: Boba's not here, man


Panels from Star Wars: Infinities: The Empire Strikes Back #2 (August 2002), script by Dave Land, pencils by Davide Fabbri, inks by Christian Dalla Vecchia, colors by Dan Jackson, letters by Steve Dutro

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 48: In the Star Wars Universe, no one can shoot straight


Panel from Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi: Prisoner of Bogan #4 (March 2013), story and script by John Ostrander, story and pencils by Jan Duursema, inks by Dan Parsons, colors by Wes Dzioba, letters by Michael Heisler

Monday, February 16, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 47: Star Wars Bromance Week



Panels from Star Wars (1977 series) #17 (November 1978), plot by Chris Claremont, script by Archie Goodwin, pencils by Herb Trimpe, inks by Al Milgrom, colors by Marie Severin, letters by Rick Parker




Panels from Star Wars (1977 series) #1 (July 1977), script by Roy Thomas, pencils and inks by Howard Chaykin, colors by Marie Severin, letters by Jim Novak




Panels from Star Wars (1977 series) #5 (November 1977), script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Howard Chaykin, inks by Steve Leialoha, colors by Glynis Wein, letters by Tom Orzechowski



Panels from Star Wars (1977 series) #6 (December 1977); script by Roy Thomas; layouts by Howard Chaykin; finishes by Rick Hober; inks by Bill Wray, Rick Hoberg, and Dave Stevens; colors by Paty Cockrum, letters by Carol Lay and Mike Royer


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Oh heck, I can't do this all week. Tomorrow: something normal.

Sunday, February 15, 2015

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 46: Star Wars Romance Week, Day 8: Play it again, Han


Let's wrap up Star Wars Romance Week with the most iconic romantic moment of the Star Wars Originalogy! Well, after Jar Jar getting his tongue caught in a pod racing engine. C'mon, read along...you know how it goes!


And now, here's the same moment as seen in the comic book adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back!



Panels from Star Wars (1977 series) #44 (February 1981), script by Archie Goodwin, pencils and inks by Al Williamson and Carlos Garzon, colors by Glynis Wein, letters by Rick Veitch

WHOA THAT'S NOT RIGHT now wait a minute folks, calm down. Nobody better blame scripter Archie Goodwin, because he is one cool guy. And also because one of the perils of doing a movie adaptation is that you have to work from a movie script that may not be final, or may not accurately reflect what will eventually be on the screen, in this case the galaxy-famous "I love you" "I know" quote. Especially since it was an on-set ab-lib by Harrison Ford:
"It was such a contest between George and I about whether that was appropriate or whether the audience would enjoy that line or not, to the point where he made me go to a test screening to sit next to him to prove it was going to get a bad laugh.... And it didn't. It got a good laugh. So it stayed in."
Which proves once and for all yet another famous Harrison Ford quote:
"George, you can type this shit, but you sure as hell can't say it."
Thank you, Mister Ford, for helping us laugh at George Lucas...again!