General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread — Page 278

MathUser said:

Is that when Chewbacca died in the EU?

Nah, those old Marvel comics just loved to make exaggerated statements on the covers to entice people to pick up the comic.
(I think Chewie’s EU death was in the early 2000’s.)

EDIT: It was in this novel from 1999.

SilverWook said:

I think those are from the British weekly issues. It ran in black and white. I dig a lot of the original covers the “extra” issues got.

Some were a tad misleading.

Actually found a batch of them in an antique shop in the 80’s. Someone had thoughtfully colored many of the interior pages with magic markers though.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Weekly
I recall the one with the weird looking Falcon being used in one of the many reprintings of the movie adaptation though.

Yes, those pin-ups are from Star Wars Weekly.

I’m a big fan of those late 70’s Goodwin/Infantino SW comics, and the UK versions had some of the best cover art.
They’re so fantastically over-the-top and cheesy.

And yes, often quite misleading;

Han basically just stuns Chewie to save his life from some Imperials, but on the cover art it’s played off as this big betrayal.

(BTW. As a person who wasn’t even born when these comics came out, I’m curious; was it annoying when the cover art exaggerated like this, or did people just accept it as the norm?)

SilverWook said:

I think we just accepted it as kids and teens. Misleading covers were par for the course for most comic books back then. Covers teasing the death of a major superhero were a staple. Superman died pretty regularly before DC conned the entire world into thinking they killed him off permanently.

I used to buy old DC and Marvel comics as a kid (they were cheaper than the new ones, and also more interesting in my opinion), and I remember buying this Flash comic (well the Norwegian version anyway), and being super enticed by the dramatic cover. In the end however, the Golden Age Flash just get’s knocked out and he wakes up as soon as Flash reaches him. There’s pretty much zero drama in the actual scene, and the cover makes it up to be this huge turn of events where a main character dies. It really bugged me as a kid, but now I find it kinda funny.

The original six issue SW adaptation have some of the most misleading covers of the entire series.

I think it’s pretty funny how this is one of the least exaggerated covers Marvel made for the movie adaptation.

It was great when people used to have artistic license which made their stuff unique and interesting. Now every little detail is controlled and people get angry if R2’s panels don’t match. Ugh.

LexX said:

It was great when people used to have artistic license which made their stuff unique and interesting. Now every little detail is controlled and people get angry if R2’s panels don’t match. Ugh.

I know what you mean.
Current SW comics’ fixation with getting every detail screen-accurate is one of the many things that makes me uninterested in them. The old comics had hit or miss stories as well, but they spent more time trying to craft interesting stories, than they spent on making sure that every detail on Han’s DL-44 blaster was exactly as it was in the movies.

It may bug a lot of current SW fans, but I find a certain charm in these old Marvel comics where Luke’s lightsaber colour changes every other issue. They’re fun stories, and I get that it’s a lightsaber, so why would it matter if it’s blue, or yellow, or red?

And sometimes they did it blatantly on purpose. Imagine how dull Dark Empire would have been if they were forced to make everything scree-accurate.

SilverWook said:

Marvel did get a couple letters accusing them of inserting scenes into the movie adaptation, specifically Biggs and Jabba, so overreacting is nothing new. 😉

Do you know how people reacted to Luke’s red and yellow lightsaber in the Marvel comics?

There’s a guy on YouTube who grew up with the Kenner toys in the early 80’s and he’s apparently been annoyed at that yellow lightsaber ever since. So this made me curious.
Do you know if this was a common complaint, or did most people just accept it like they did with the comic covers?

SilverWook said:

ZkinandBonez said:

SilverWook said:

Marvel did get a couple letters accusing them of inserting scenes into the movie adaptation, specifically Biggs and Jabba, so overreacting is nothing new. 😉

Do you know how people reacted to Luke’s red and yellow lightsaber in the Marvel comics?

There’s a guy on YouTube who grew up with the Kenner toys in the early 80’s and he’s apparently been annoyed at that yellow lightsaber ever since. So this made me curious.
Do you know if this was a common complaint, or did most people just accept it like they did with the comic covers?

I don’t recall any lightsaber controversies. Too bad nobody has thought of an archive of just the letters column page to show what fans were thinking back then.

I do know the yellow lightsaber persisted well into the ESB line.

The irony is that they finally realized that the lightsaber was supposed to be blue…

…in 1983.

(They did after a short while change it to green though. But how they kept getting these colours wrong from 1977-1982 still baffles me.)

Btw. All this 70’s and 80’s SW might start to be not-so-random-thoughts anymore.
So I made a Retro Star Wars thread.

Maybe they were using leftover ANH sabers for ESB and leftover ESB sabers for Jedi?

Tyrphanax said:

Maybe they were using leftover ANH sabers for ESB and leftover ESB sabers for Jedi?

Well, the ANH lightsaber was a feature built into the figure, whereas the ESB saber was an accessory. Also there was never a blue ESB lightsaber, they were all yellow.

I’m guessing that when they finally decided to fix the yellow lightsaber thing and give Luke a properly coloured saber they based the new lightsaber accessory on the early ROTJ footage in which it was blue. But, like I mentioned earlier, they did change it to green eventually.

Sorry, that was mostly a joke.

Hasbro’s dropping this beauty as part of the Black Series line of wearables soon!

Yep. They’ve got a nice Kylo Ren one out already.

Costuming is a huge market now, and they’re losing money every time someone molds or prints their own, so it really makes a ton of sense to make their own for sale. From what I’ve heard, they’re actually pretty decent quality, too, for the pricepoint.

DuracellEnergizer said:

ZkinandBonez said:

LexX said:

It was great when people used to have artistic license which made their stuff unique and interesting. Now every little detail is controlled and people get angry if R2’s panels don’t match. Ugh.

I know what you mean.
Current SW comics’ fixation with getting every detail screen-accurate is one of the many things that makes me uninterested in them. The old comics had hit or miss stories as well, but they spent more time trying to craft interesting stories, than they spent on making sure that every detail on Han’s DL-44 blaster was exactly as it was in the movies.

It may bug a lot of current SW fans, but I find a certain charm in these old Marvel comics where Luke’s lightsaber colour changes every other issue. They’re fun stories, and I get that it’s a lightsaber, so why would it matter if it’s blue, or yellow, or red?

And sometimes they did it blatantly on purpose. Imagine how dull Dark Empire would have been if they were forced to make everything scree-accurate.

I agree with all of the above.

I find this interesting because it severely bothers me when comic artists miss or mess up obvious details.

But I also hate it just as much when they basically trace stills or promo photos for the art.

Are the members of the Lucasfilm Story Group (Hidalgo in particular) contractually obligated to defend the PT on Twitter with unprovoked, seemingly random, lengthy chains of tweets?