They're Dying! (17)
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I don't know why, but for some reason I always liked Howard Chaykin's image of Luke's fist scrubbing the muck off the door plate. There's a tangible real-life quality to it. I also like the toughness of the gesture: a quick single scrub. Better than a finger-tip inside a spit-moistened hankie. I know, I'm odd.
Howard Chaykin/Marvel 1977
Art Notes
Lots of pasted-in images in this one. You'd wonder why someone who loved drawing so much would do this wouldn't you? I've said it before, I think it was just a love of the photographic imagery and a wish to make it all seem even closer to the film itself. I must have had spare/duplicate trading cards (top-right) and the black and white image at the bottom would've been a prize catch from a newspaper or someplace. Not, I hope, cut from one of the comics!
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Steve Sansweet and this writer last Easter 2011
Hello, Mark and Steve - are you still getting your 3 times weekly doses of SWa9?
Thanks for reading! Care to comment?
Comments
I'll look around and see where else I can spam it :)
That said, re. today's page - could you please tell your young self that he's a lazy bugger. And I don't just mean the cut and pasting. Where is the full-page spread of Mr. Noga getting a bolt up the bottom?
Yes, pimp - con - SPAM away please. Threats are also effective I believe.
The Chaykin-drawn frame of Solo shooting Mr.Noga is impressive.
I seem to have depersonalised him somewhat; making him nothing more than a tentacle. Perhaps it was just judged too much for us to look in his eye as he died? Especially now - now that he undoubtedly has an entire 'Expanded Universe' backstory! I wouldn't be surprised if an ancestor was a senator.
Now that I have #3 child I'll have her finger paint the page you sent me as soon as she is old enough, for another special edition (wouldn't want her to feel left out).
Yes, a tomato ketchup, yoghurt and pureed vegetable palette would be EXCELLENT for the garbage compactor scenes!
I agree with Neil! Shoulda shown more of the throw down of Mr. Noga ;) I am amused by the little caveat that they don't shoot him until they're outside - like they're afraid he or his relatives might retaliate
"Got him! Now run before his wife and kids see chunks of his bloody carcass splattered all over the corridor floor, walls and ceiling!"
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