Luke, Han & Chewie have rescued
Princess Leia, and jump into the garbage chute to escape the
detention block. Garbage masher, escape, split up, Luke & Leia
kiss and swing across a chasm, and everyone gets back to the Falcon
in time to see Ben Kenobi's last duel with Darth Vader before they
escape the Death Star's hangar. The creative team of Thomas, Chaykin, and Leialoha remains.
Hindsight is 20/20
Again,
there's not a whole lot to say about this issue. It hews closely to
the final product of the movie with a few art differences. Like Han
shooting at the dianoga's tentacle reaching for them when they escape
the garbage chute.
Ben
Kenobi is also a lot sassier in his duel with Vader, which is a lot
more visually dynamic than the film version. Then it ends on one of
the weirdest depictions of Kenobi's death ever.
Its been 40 years. No spoiler warning for you
Its
dynamic, its painful, its weird. It looks like Ben's electrocuted and
incinerated at the same time, which I guess kind of works as a
killing blow for a lightsaber, but even then lightsaber cuts were
depicted inconsistently in the Original Trilogy. Sometimes they
cauterize and sometimes they leave bloody messes. The only way the
panel works at all is thanks to the 70s colors. Its a curious end to
a well choreographed fight.
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