Trust me Luke (06)
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So easy - a trained monkey could do it
There are some bloody weird looking faces in this one! From very late 1977 or very early 1978. Just check out Luke in panel 1!
It must have been fantastic fun just lashing these pages out. I'm assuming they were done rapidly - even for a 9 year old.
Maybe I was watching the Planet of the Apes TV series too much?
(John Landis movie review)
More juicy extra bits
As usual (thank you for your indulgence reader) these are my favourite pages. Raw, rapid, wacky looking and they give you more stuff that George deprived us of in his, uh... version.
Who can explain to me what the heck this is all about? Did he change his mind - did Solo get him?
"I missed Solo and --- --- I got him!"
So that's why he was such a great shot!
"It's Ben
his spirit"
Did you know that Luke's fancy shooting during this scene was largely due to Obi Wan's ghostly guidance? I know, I know: it wasn't in the film. Yes, our George saved Ben's helpful intervention from the other side until the crucial, climactic blowing-up-the-Death-Star- bit; but 9 year olds know little of subtlety and restraint and given the chance of doing something fun, sooner rather than later...
More is MORE!
(But what about later when Ben tells him to turn off the targeting computer at that critical climactic part of the film and to trust his feelings? There'll simply be no dilemma at all - and no suspense.)
Actually there is a touch of the force in the 1977 novel
"Luke tried to relax, to become a part of the weapon. Almost without being aware of it he was firing at a retreating Imperial."
Also, in the excellently scripted Marvel adaptation, Luke appears to close his eyes as he fires at the last TIE fighter (see picture) - just as he does in my own definitive version. The text says nothing of it though. Almost as if Chaykin played-up the spiritual aspect, and Roy Thomas played it back down again.
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