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[joysweeper]

Just one panel from the comic adaptation of Splinter of the Mind's Eye.

He's supposed to be wearing a stolen miner's uniform. Uh-huh.

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[joysweeper]

Things must be different in the Empire.

Leia's wearing a miner's uniform too, but although it clings, it doesn't cling as much. I'll get a post together sooner or later.

[bluefall]

Really, as long as it's not blue and vomit-green, I can allow some flexibility with the clinging. XD

I vote sooner! I've never read any of the old Jossed stuff from before Return of the Jedi came out, I'd love to see it.

[joysweeper]

All right. This book wasn't ever Jossed, afaik. There are a couple lines that later canon makes clumsy, for some reason Luke can swim though Leia can't, and Luke and Leia are pretty clearly attracted to each other, but otherwise it slots into canon decently.

...Here's a sample I removed the background from in Aviary.

[wizardru]

Wait...the boy who grew up on a DESERT PLANET can swim? What?

[icon_uk]

It makes sense when you consider Luke's istory. He's the hick moisture farmer from Tattooine. All he's ever had to look at desert, sand and more desert, with an option of rocks if he's lucky.

Once he was on a world with water in abundance I can imagine him being obsessed with water as a feature of the natural enviroment, seas and rivers, oceans and waterfalls, and to Luke learning to swim (because you might need to KNOW how to swim) would seem like the coolest thing EVER.

[joysweeper]

It's set two years after ANH. I think he's had time to learn.

It's Leia not being able to swim that's the headscratcher. In Marvel Star Wars she did just fine...

[cricharddavies]

Since that story was set after ESB, I suspect that her experiences in this one convinced her that she should learn ... and since anything she does, she does well ...

[stolisomancer]

You can always tell Chris Sprouse's art by that weird lack of a third dimension his dudes sometimes have.