just another thought along the lines of my previous mutterings.
STAR WARS was originally a trilogy, so all references within the trilogy and themes were nicely tied up within the context of the 3 films
then (ignoring EU) the SAGA of SIX films recreated this context into the six films, references and themes then intermixing across the six films (not particularly well, but thats the idea)
what if we make all the comic material some contextualised super saga panning 1000s of years? by rescripting and reorienteering ideas it could be some greater story. Lucas tried tieing the phantom menace with ROTJ for example with the chosen one mumbo jumbo. if we were to pretend that the PT and OT arnt films, and choose to use the comics, we can create a series of omnibuses, where the skywalkers, leia, han etc are almost minor characters.
heres an interesting site
http://www.darkhorse.com/Zones/StarWars/Timeline
nicely puts a potential comic SAGA in some sort of linear form.
Darknikos has made some cool ideas just in the rewriting in the Thrawn Trilogy (im just correcting the english!:P) to make them run more coherently
I am recolouring when I can to make the imagery itself seem less like its been inked by people who eat neon for breakfast, and also to add some consitency. annoyingly though i need to go to university to use photoshop to do anything :P does anyone know of a free version? GIMP isnt too hot, and i had to wipe and restart my PC when a Photoshop crack had a trojan in it.:'(
if anyone wants to read up on the comic backgrounds just go on wookiepedia, or i can upload chunks to rapidshare, and some naughty individuals seem to have uploaded them as torrents too.
i must confess i also wasnt that bothered about the comics (excpet for tales of the jedi) for the same reason as many, but the idea of making them more consistent and more of a universal project could be fun!:) i never felt that the comics fit in with the films, so replace the films with the comic versions, and slide in the bits about lumiya maybe? expand upon dialogue perhaps? put in flashbacks? we could even do a comic version of STAR WARS reborn? and lets not forget we can always draw stuff in?
COOKS NEEDED!