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Queers busting people out of jail! YEAH!!!!

“Choose Your Destiny: A Finn & Poe Adventure.” October 4, 2019. Writer: Cavan Scott. Illustrator: Elsa Charretier.

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It’s months over due but I still wanted to try my hand at a DTIYS challenge. I had a lot of fun practicing my watercolor painting skills with this one, I learned a lot (though I have a ways to go still).

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Just two creepy little guys in the void.

Little Golden Book: Return of the Jedi. July 28, 2015. Writer: Geof Smith. Illustrator: Ron Cohee.

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THE PADME FASHION SHOW, Part 11: Queen of the Ponchos

Concept art from The Art of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, written by Mark Cotta Vaz, published 2002. Drawn by Iain McCaig.

Check back on this blog every hour on the hour for more of THE PADME FASHION SHOW!

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It’s Anakin Week again! Yesterday I shared a panel of young Anakin rescuing a womp rat on Tatooine; today, here’s a panel of Anakin after lashing out at a group of attacking animals. Though he struck in self defense, in context this violence is still a failure, since Obi-Wan was able to calm his animals down.

(Interestingly, during the arena monster battle in “Attack of the Clones,” Anakin is the one who calms his monster down. Nothing is simple with these two!)

The two comics were created by two different writers -- two different publishers, even -- but they make an interesting narrative together. Though his childhood on Tatooine was difficult, Anakin took every opportunity he could to be kind and generous. His time as a Jedi, however, was more stressful, with more high-stakes situations and moral quandaries. He obtained more power, and he faced more vicious opponents, until violence and death became more and more normal for him. So much for learning control...

I love animals a lot, but Star Wars -- like a lot of adventure-genre fiction -- treats them pretty terribly. So I always appreciate when characters are good to animals, or at least feel bad when they are mean to them.

“Obi-Wan & Anakin” (trade paperback). Marvel. July 19, 2016. Writer: Charles Soule. Penciller and Inker: Marco Checchetto. Letterer: Joe Caramagna. Colorist: Andres Mossa.

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“We were going down to street level to see a Coruscant we’d never seen before. George threw down the gauntlet when he said it’d have to look better than Blade Runner.”

-- Doug Chiang

That is quite a gauntlet! I love both movies, but I’ll have to rewatch them to write a more thorough comparison. I’ll just say, only one of them made me want to buy the art book.

There are many pieces of Coruscant concept art, but I feel like if I share them all at once then I’ll miss out on a lot of details. This main event of this piece, of course, is that fabulous queen on the right. She’s got a modest Cenobite vibe going on, with some kind of crown of thorns situation happening on the back of her head. And did you notice she’s got a dagger? Or possibly a microphone?

She’s not the only overdressed person in the square. It looks like we are a tiny creature about to get decked by that approaching cyborg’s massive sleeve. Most unnerving is the guy in the middle, who I get the feeling is staring straight at us.

Concept art: “Coruscant Street Scene,” from The Art of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, written by Mark Cotta Vaz, published 2002. Drawn by Marc Gabbana.

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Happy Clone Wars Friday!

I have no idea how this guy got away from Anakin. It looks like he’s zooming away on a segway.

“Republic 55: The Battle of Jabiim,” issue 1. Dark Horse. July 2, 2003. Writer: Haden Blackman. Penciller: Brian Ching. Inker: Victor Llamas. Letterer: Sno Cone Studies, Ltd. Colorist: Joe Wayne.

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This week's theme: Siblings!

Maul’s brother Savage is the best thing that ever happened to him -- and Maul never appreciated him enough!

“Darth Maul – Death Sentence,” Issue 1. Dark Horse. July 25, 2012. Writer: Tom Taylor. Penciller: Bruno Redondo. Letterer: Michael Heisler. Colorist: Michael Atiyeh.