This might originally have followed the film-noir page that you saw a few days ago. What an incredibly pared-down adaptation the '77 original was! It must have been great before half of it went into the bin (sob - splutter). I'm just the most stupidly sentimental live-in-the-past old fool. But some of you have told me after seeing SWa9, how much you wish you still had your old drawings. I should feel lucky that I still have so many - after age 8 - and a small number of much younger ones. Now I save all of my son's drawings and annotate them with the dates, and sometimes our little conversatins about them. Often they need some form of explanation! All kept safe in an archive quality, sealed box.

Artwork Notes

Terrrrr-ifickkkk!

So we're back to the cute stuff again. I like the cheerful toss of the screw-driver. But Ben's anatomy is all over the gaff!

Er, but what about the excellent 'handing over of the Lightsaber' bit? Surely not too boring for a 9 year old? Was that binned too? Argh!

"ALDERANN..." Says Ben. Hmmm. Why?

You'd need to be very familiar with the film to know what the heck was going on here wouldn't you?

I was fond of that grey-blue felt-tip pen. It was excellent for colouring certain army uniforms. It was probably resorted to here though, because the black had run out.

Scars

Incidentally - notice the retrospectively-added parallel scars on Luke's face? More on that another day.

Mower Please?

'Man of a 1000 faces Luke' now looks like Patrick Mower, average English actor of the '70s. Mower was one of the archetypal chin-be-dimpled stars. The characters are getting so good at shape-shifting their faces now, that I'm surprised they's need Stormtrooper outfits to get into the Death Star Prison Block.

"Who are you?"

"It is I, Patrick Mower, average English actor of the '70s! Not a rebel trying to rescue a princess."

"Oh," baffled expression, "where are you taking this - thing?"

"This 'thing' - as you so quaintly put it - is a betamax tape of my finest film 'Carry-on England.' "

"Does Barbara Windsor get her kit off in it?"

"No, I think that was 'Carry-on Camping.' "

"Men, shoot him - and the tape"

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