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Post #1214842

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ZkinandBonez
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The original Marvel Star Wars series
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Date created
5-Jun-2018, 5:09 PM

screams in the void said:

pretty cool though , I am also a big fan of Dezungia’s work on Savage Sword Of Conan and this illustration is well suited to his style and reminiscent of the Tom Jung movie poster as well. Only suggestion I would make is to use the same color palette for Han and Luke’s skin tones as you did for Leia. Looks really nice overall though.

I might have to check out Savage Sword of Conan now.

Also, now that you mentioned Conan, it occurred too me Luke was often depicted as being very Conan-esque during the first few years of SW. The most obvious example from Marvel being the cover-icon that they used prior to ESB. I always thought it looked more like Conan dressed up as Luke than the actual Luke from the movies. (Of course I wouldn’t have it any other way.)

One of the many things that fascinate me about the original Marvel SW comics (and early SW-stuff in general) is that they were made in a time when stuff like Conan and John Carter of Mars was still relevant, or at least part of recent memory, so it had a huge influence on people’s early interpretations of what SW was supposed to be. It may seem weird to some people nowadays, but back then it made perfect sense that they’d hire an artist that had worked on Conan to do SW-stuff. Today SW is so well known that there really is no need for interpretations or comparisons to other things. To most people that are my age or younger, SW is just SW, and it’s always been that way.