Stop getting Star Wars wrong!

[iamrman]

2 panels from Star Wats (1977) #1.

Trust Roy Thomas to get Star Wars wrong!

An even worse crime is #2 cutting out 'hello there'!

Comments

[stubbleupdate]

Are you trying to be funny, or do you not know how this comic was made?

[iamrman]

I admit, I was being facetious. I think the comic book adaption came out before the movie?

[mastermahan]

I don't know about this comic, but adaptions and novelizations generally have to work off an early version of the script to be done in time. The X-Men 2 novelization, for example, ends with Jean Grey alive but blind, because that was what happened in some versions of the script.

[iamrman]

This adaption also has various scenes not seen in the movie. Such as Luke hanging out with his friends and Han Solo conversing with a humanoid Jabba.

[erikred]

Congratulations! You've stumbled on a thing that those of us who grew up with the movie and comics and, well, everything else had to piece together from interviews and slips in conversations at cons.

I won a copy of a giant-sized version of the Star Wars comic at school. Memory betrays me, but I'm guessing it was at least as big as A3 sized sheets. (I could have had this or some enormous candy thing...) When I got it home and read it, I was confused by all of the things that were different. And then I read the Alan Dean Foster adaptation, and I was even more confused. And it turns out, so were Roy Thomas and Alan Dean Foster.

Those scenes were part of Lucas's original script and shoot. (YouTube Link)

[iamrman]

Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic. The first person to comment on this entry seemed to take exception, now my anxiety is making me think that everybody else has got beef with me.

[erikred]

No beef, no sarcasm (but I appreciate your candor and anxiety). Pure fan-joy; some fond nostalgia. My friends and I would read whatever we could get our hands on, listen to any snippet from any broadcast interview, and interpolate wildly. (Could NOT figure out if they were going to put someone in a bunny suit or not in Empire.) I was 7 when the first movie came out; it seemed like anything was possible.

Also, I only stumbled on the RocketJump YT piece in the last few months, and I love sharing it.

[iamrman]

Oh, God. Imagine how the fandom would have reaction if Jaxxon had appeared in the movies! I don't know how people feel about him, actually. If my experiences with Star Wars fandom are any indication, then I probably don't want to know.

My Star Wars was the special editions. I was too young to catch the original trilogy the first time around. As such, I have never known any different as to who shot first. (Just one example of the discourse that I find mystifying).

[john_drake1964]

The Back to the Future novelization is something else, that is for sure. There's a reason why Ryan North did a comedic review of it...

[mastermahan]

You know, it's a good thing Leia took the time to tell Obi-Won what his full name is. Otherwise, the rebels might not have gotten the plans until it was too late.

Then again, convenient expository holograms seems to be an Organa thing.

[icon_uk]

There was a terrific story in Star Wars Tales way back at the turn of the millenium, which has Threepio being instructed to clear up some space in Artoo's memory as it's getting overloaded and he finds OTHER holographic recordings that other characters had recorded via Artoo, and which had never had to be sent and which Artoo had clearly wanted to keep.

Sadly, nothing from Padme or Anakin, though that would have been nice, but from Han (just after Luke took off for the Death Star run no Yavin), Leia (recording a meesage to Luke on Hoth) and Luke (on Endor just after Vader's pyre burned)

[iamrman]

I have various volumes of Star Wars Tales, so I will keep an eye out for that one.

[mordalo]

I remember reading that Roy Thomas based the adaptation off the script and not the edited movie, so there were some things in the comic (like Biggs) that didn't end up in the final cut.

Mind you, I was 9 when the movie came out, and read the adaptation (anyone else remember the oversized collection of the first six issues) before I saw it in the theaters.

[iamrman]

The trade I read also included an introduction from an earlier collection where Roy Thomas revealed all sorts of behind the scenes infornation. Like how George Lucas didn't like Jaxxon the alien bunny.

[feyandstrange]

it's of topic, but: I was overseas when the movie came out, younger than you besides. I saw it dubbed in French, and French dubbing convention said that villains are always tenors. Please imagine a nasal French tenor Darth Vader, and me failing to get a lot of jokes forever or until the second movie came out.