I’m sure back then they looked at this and thought, “What’s this guy thinking?” Audiences expect all that action and set pieces, and one thing after another. When you look at movies now like “Avatar” and “The Avengers,” it seems prophetic. You can see why some of it was changed because there’s no way they could have done it. This is genuinely George’s first complete screenplay story of this tale, and it’s wildly different. It was just a very well-written screenplay, and that’s what a comic book script is. I’ve been in comics 20 years, and when I read the rough draft, I thought, I can make a comic of this tomorrow. It’s such a great story, George is a great storyteller.ĬNN: Was it difficult to illustrate this story from a script written nearly 40 years ago? When I read the rough draft, it had all those things which made me want to make it into a comic book. You’ve got a planet with twin suns, an imperial city and a cloud city. You’ve got Sith and Jedi, you’ve got a desert planet. All the puzzle pieces are there but arranged to form a different picture. Rinzler: It’s so similar and yet so different at the same time. Rinzler, who adapted Lucas’ script for comics, and artist Mike Mayhew.ĬNN: What captured your interest when adapting this script?

However, I am more interested in what everyone else has to say.CNN spoke separately to J.W. I especially liked the artwork, and vastly prefer it to some of Salvador Larocca's work on the canon Marvel comics. I do feel that some of the story elements (Vader hunting Luke, the Rebellion searching for a new base post-Yavin, etc.) and character tropes (especially Perla, Prithi, and Bircher) were very familiar ground, but the overall story was well-done enough and could have come into its own with a little more time. Personally, I enjoyed it quite a bit, and am interested in reading the remaining issues just so that I have the full story. Since it seems to have been forgotten due to the glut of new con tent produced in the same era (between IV and V) immediately after under Disney, I was curious to hear what other fans think of it. I just finished reading the Star Wars: Rebellion Volume 1 TPB which contains the first 12 issues of the (20-issue) Star Wars series produced by DH just before they lost the license.

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