ZkinandBonez

SilverWook said:

That does bring up a question, aside from the head butting in the prequels getting cut in the UK, have the movies ever had censorship issues elsewhere in the world? I think Luke’s hand getting cut off in ESB was snipped in Norway or something.

I’m Norwegian and I’ve never seen any version of ESB without that shot. Then again, I wasn’t even born in 1980, but I’ve never heard anything about that either.

Apart from The Life of Brian, Norway never banned or censored anything during that period. At least not to my knowledge.

SilverWook said:

I get she’s that bummed out about Anakin, but how about finding the will to live if only for your kids?

Oh, I agree it’s a weird scene and that she should have lived. I’m just saying it’s not technically impossible to die the way she did.

suspiciouscoffee said:

Is she really okay in TPM? I mean, she flirts with an 8 year old. Idk what the age of consent is on Tattooine, but I’ve always thought it was icky.

Does she technically “flirt” with Anakin in TPM? I wouldn’t even consider Anakin’s behaviour as being flirty, just really oddly expressed infatuation. Which makes sense for an eight years old kid.

As dumb as it may sound, will can affect survival. People (young even) have actually died due to emotional distress. It’s very rare, but they are usually in a weakened state when it happens. Pluss, tech in SW varies all the time depending on what the plot requires. And SW is basically a fantasy world with sci-fi tech instead of magic.

As far as I’m concerned the real issue with that scene is the lack of continuity with the OT.

“Lando’s Style video”

screams in the void said:

I could order them off ebay or amazon or some such but I enjoy coming across such finds in physical locations .

I feel the same way. I’m only about 10 or so issues away from owning all of the Goodwin/Infantino issues, so I could order them online for a decent-ish price, but if I did that I wouldn’t find interesting places like the one I found today. The store was literally just in some guys house, but he had the largest selections of old comics I’ve seen in any comic store, period (and that’s including big city stores). The owner was a really nice guy and we ended up discussing various things about Marvel SW (like pre-ROTJ Jabba, etc). He even gave me a discount because I bought so much at once.

eBay is something I’ll only resort to when I’m missing like one or two issues (maybe, we’ll see).

screams in the void said:

great haul ! Issue 35 Dark Lord’s Gambit will always be my version of how Vader learned Luke’s name. The droid world book is awesome too ! There is a channel on youtube that has it as well as pretty much all o the read along book and record/tape productions to date…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jjEm6g3FNw

Yeah, I always though it was interesting that Vader learning Luke’s name was described as “surprisingly underwhelming”, especially considering that ESB was released only a few months later.

Droid World has always been a favourite of mine, so I had to grab the read-along version just for fun. I’ve heard the record/cassette on YouTube before, but it’s fun to actually have the booklet. I’m also a big fan of the Frank Miller cover art. Retroactively it’s fun to see how many soon-to-be famous artists briefly worked on SW in the late 70’s / early 80’s (like John Byrne doing the cover for #13).

LexX said:

ZkinandBonez said:

LexX said:

ZkinandBonez said:

screams in the void said:

AH ! These are the droids I was looking for…http://www.rebelscum.com/comicbooks.asp and here is the international gallery…http://www.rebelscum.com/marvelcomics12.asp

Neat.

Its interesting to see the Finish gallery. Apart from the text, they’re the exact same issues that I have in my collection of Norwegian comics.

We might have discussed this, but Denmark sent all the stories across the Nordics and the publisher in Finland had no idea what numbers they were nor how many there are in total or in what order they were originally released. And it all ended with a complete surprise in the last number. Sweden got at least one extra story. It seems that at least Finland and Norway were both in the complete darkness and got the same short end of the stick.

Yes, we discussed this in another thread at some point, but I did’t know sending the to Finland had anything to do with the wacky continuity. Most Norwegian comics I have from that period are more-or-less like that. I always assumed that the stories were edited in Denmark and only sent to Finland for printing. Or do you have any more information about this?

At least the Norwegian comics made some sense when it came to the continuity. At the top of the slash page were in the US it said “Stan Lee presents; the greatest space fantasy of all”, etc. in Norway it would often say something like “This story takes place immediately after Return of the Jedi”, or something like that to re-orientate you when suddenly in 1985 you got a story originally fro 1981. Was it like this in the Finish releases well? (or am I repeating myself again?)

Also, I’m curious now, what was the “surprise” in the last number? And what extra story did Sweden get? I know Sweden got more Dark Horse stories in the 90’s, but I didn’t know it applied to the Marvel ones as well.

Yeah, they had a little continuity but it wasn’t because of Finland but what was sent to here. Unfortunately I don’t have my comics at hand right now, but based on an online article which quotes the texts from the articles made by the translator in the comics, he said in 1987 that they have no idea what’s going on in the US and which number is which. In 1986 he also said that they got the material from Denmark and that in 1987 the comic structure was done in Sweden. Sweden sent the stuff to Finland and Norway. It was asked in #1 of 12 in 1987 that as the last number was published in the US, what would happen to the Finnish comics. He said that Norway would have material for 1987 and 1988 and that they would publish “everything that exists”. I don’t know if any of this was discussed in the readers’ questions in Sweden or Denmark, but those would be the places to get info how the material got here. Based on this, it would seem that they would just get more or less random stories from the US and just distributed them to our countries. I doubt that they would just be sitting on all Marvel releases and then you get stories from here and there and to have every year different number of actual releases which seems unplanned.

Well, I don’t have any of the 1987 issues so I don’t know what was discussed in the letters section, but I do have a few issues of a Norwegian B&W comic called “Cobra” which included some of the Goodwin/Williamson newspaper strips. I guess continuing the main comic without any new American stories was too complicated so they opted to include “everything [else] that exists” as bonus stories in another comic instead.

LexX said:

The surprise was that it ended in #12 1987 without any warning, it was like “this is the last number, thanks everyone” even though previously there was talking about the next year and new “clone wars movies”. The reason was that they could not get any more material and there was nothing to be done. Probably Marvel didn’t care at that point?

Sweden got #92 which wasn’t released here.

I don’t own the Norwegian version of this issues but it has the same cover and the next pretty much just translates to “end of story” or “that’s it”, so I guess the Norwegian end to the series was equally abrupt.

I do however seem to recall some discussions about the prequels as “soon to be announced” films in the letters sections of several issues. Of course nothing happened, so they filled the page with info about the Ewok movies instead despite the fact that they never got any Norwegian VHS release. They even talked about Labyrinth in one issue (pictures and all) because it was the closest thing to a George Lucas film at the time.

I found this great comic shop called Classic Collections in the middle of nowhere today and got my biggest comic haul so far (of any time I’ve been in the US). In addition to the comics in the image below I also got vol 1 of the 1994 TPB of the Goodwin/Williamson “Classic Star Wars”, a few issues of Star Wars Galaxy Magazine, and the Droid World: Further Adventures adaptation of #47.

LexX said:

ZkinandBonez said:

screams in the void said:

AH ! These are the droids I was looking for…http://www.rebelscum.com/comicbooks.asp and here is the international gallery…http://www.rebelscum.com/marvelcomics12.asp

Neat.

Its interesting to see the Finish gallery. Apart from the text, they’re the exact same issues that I have in my collection of Norwegian comics.

We might have discussed this, but Denmark sent all the stories across the Nordics and the publisher in Finland had no idea what numbers they were nor how many there are in total or in what order they were originally released. And it all ended with a complete surprise in the last number. Sweden got at least one extra story. It seems that at least Finland and Norway were both in the complete darkness and got the same short end of the stick.

Yes, we discussed this in another thread at some point, but I did’t know sending them to Finland had anything to do with the wacky continuity. Most Norwegian comics I have from that period are more-or-less like that. I always assumed that the stories were edited in Denmark and only sent to Finland for printing. Or do you have any more information about this?

At least the Norwegian comics made some sense when it came to the continuity. At the top of the slash page were in the US it said “Stan Lee presents; the greatest space fantasy of all”, etc. in Norway it would often say something like “This story takes place immediately after Return of the Jedi”, or something like that to re-orientate you when suddenly in 1985 you got a story originally from 1981. Was it like this in the Finish releases well? (or am I repeating myself again?)

Also, I’m curious now, what was the “surprise” in the last number? And what extra story did Sweden get? I know Sweden got more Dark Horse stories in the 90’s, but I didn’t know it applied to the Marvel ones as well.

ChainsawAsh said:

I don’t see how it’d be hard to recognize him in a hologram, it’s never been that way in a SW movie before. Just because it’s all blue-tinted doesn’t mean you can’t see the tattoos and horns.

He could be hooded. Wouldn’t hide him interely, but it might avoid confusing most viewers.

I just seems weird to me to put Maul into the film without any explanation as to how he survived. Saw Gerrera is one thing, but Mail is a well known movie character.

ChainsawAsh said:

Yep, in a hologram. Ray Park with Sam Witwer voicing.

(Haven’t seen it, but this has been said a ton since the premiere, so I’m 98% sure it’s true.)

Has anyone described how he appears in the film? I imagine the hologram to make it quite hard to recognize him. Otherwise I’d imagine it would be quite a jarring cameo for more casual fans.

screams in the void said:

cool ! would love to see your version of #40

I don’t have any copies of it on the laptop I’m currently using. (I do have all the rest though, for some weird reason.)

Either way, it mostly looks like the German cover, only with the original US colours. Plus, it wasn’t really finished. But now that I have the German and Mexican versions I might use those to improve it when I get back home. I might post it then, alongside some of the other covers I didn’t post earlier.

Cthulhunicron said:

So, rumor has it that a character from the prequel trilogy makes a cameo.

https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1205453/action/topic#1205453

screams in the void said:

AH ! These are the droids I was looking for…http://www.rebelscum.com/comicbooks.asp and here is the international gallery…http://www.rebelscum.com/marvelcomics12.asp

Neat.

Its interesting to see the Finish gallery. Apart from the text, they’re the exact same issues that I have in my collection of Norwegian comics.

I really like those German covers. It’s interesting to see how they extended the original cover art. I actually photoshopped SW #40 (EDIT: #25) a while back to remove the barcode and had to re-draw Leia’s hand. It’s fun to see how the German and Mexican versions did the same things in two different ways.

Some of those Spanish covers are pretty good.

They remind me a little of the Norwegian cover art I posted earlier, except that these actually add something new to the original compositions.

screams in the void said:

good finds there in the comic shops here in the United States ZkinandBonez ! And you found an issue with an interesting story (46)written by "Wally Lombego " …http://www.jmdematteis.com/2010/09/dreams-of-wally-lombego.html

Interesting. I had no idea Lombego was an “Alan Smithee” of sorts.

It’s a really odd story, but I kind of like the old Marvel stories that doesn’t fit the overall SW mould.

screams in the void said:

and here on the writers page is the original ending to that story…http://www.jmdematteis.com/2010/10/star-warsagain.html

I might have to track down that SWW issue just for this alternate ending. (Maybe next time I’m in the UK.)

DuracellEnergizer said:

Unless played for laughs, such a crossover would be profoundly stupid.

Weirder crossovers have happened (and been treated seriously);

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Planet_X_Star_Trek.jpg

One of the first things I look up whenever I plan a visit to the US is comic shops. I can obviously get any of the old SW comics digitally, and TPB are available in pretty much any big city in Scandinavia, but original issues are rare to come by, if at all.

This is yesterday’s haul of classic SW.
(My “ultimate” goal is to get a copy of every issue made by Goodwin/Infantino. I’m about halfway there now.)

So apparently Warwick Davis is reprising his role in TPM as a character called Weazel"

Source

Star Wars Helmets Re-imagined as Monster Heads

“Enfys Nest” clip

snooker said:

Haarspalter said:

ZkinandBonez said:

“Holochess” clip

It’s the exact same move we already saw thousands of times.

They probably didn’t feel like pulling Phil Tippett out of the ground again.

That hardly explains why it’s the same move. It also seems to be “filmed” from a different angle than the ANH scene.

I’d assume the intended joke is that even ten years later (in ANH) Chewie still hasn’t learned how to defend against that move.

“Han Meets Lando” clip

“Holochess” clip

New Clip from Solo

SilverWook said:

ZkinandBonez said:

Didn’t Marvel fans back in the 70’s request a Darth Vader vs Doctor Doom crossover or something like that?

They did in the letters column. Marvel politely dashed such hopes for legal reasons. I think it could happen now. 😉

It could have been a great idea for an issue of Marvel’s non-canon What If? series.

Weird question, but do you have any idea of what issue they discussed this? Now I’m curious about those “legal reasons”.