The Daily Read for March 1, 2013
Just look at that cover! When i was 9 years old and watching my blurry VHS copy of Star Wars while sitting about 16 inches away from the television with one hand digging into a bag of Doritos and the other hand tightly curled around a Luke Skywalker action figure, THIS image is what the Cantina scene looked like in my mind. Blasters firing, lightsabers swinging, bloody arms flying. Damn, Jedis are bad-ass! Sure, the actual scene is a bit more tame than this cover, but one should never let facts get in the way of cherished childhood memories. Issue 2 of Marvel’s Star Wars runs from Ben’s rescue of Luke from the Sand People to their departure from Tatooine on the Millenium Falcon. Let’s start with the good: Howard Chaykin’s art. I love Chaykin’s work and didn’t mind that he didn’t quite have a handle on the characters in Issue 1 (particularly Luke, who looked nothing like Mark Hamill). As long as Chaykin is telling the story in a visually entertaining way, i don’t care if he’s working ...