Great work! My Baron Tagge looks pitiful compared to your one. (Although I think I got my Tagge head from you, so I think I'll shut up!)
Yep you most certainly did. I still have the mold for it. Sooner or later I want to do a custom of the Barron.
Wasn't aware of this guy in the Marvel line (though I didn't follow it all that closely)...great concepts though! I love seeing these updates; good work as always!
Thanks Merc, I'll try to keep these updates coming.
That Baron looks fantastic on the front page. Interesting characters. You sure do make me wish I had all the SW Marvel Line up thats for sure. Looking forward to more.
Thanks Tamer,
I got a few more tonight. I wanted to post this weekend but I was working on some armor for a custom. I should be posting that figure in Custom Figures soon.
ISSUE # 38!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hands down one of the most surprising and best Star Wars comics that MARVEL ever put out. That's thanks mainly to guest Artist Michael Golden!
What was the surprise you ask? The answer: in issue #37, it was advertised at the end of the story that the next comic would be the adaptation of "The Empire Strikes Back"!
That meant that the next issue, issue #38, would be on sale a mere 7 days after the actual premier of the film in 1980. Children's hearts leaped from their chests in excitement including mine! But when the issue finally arrived in shops around the US the story was NOT the one promised a month before.
Disappointment began to loom but when the pages were turned they revealed an astonishing story with amazing art work! The story was a stand alone that had nothing to do with the story-line that fans had been following. It featured Luke and Leia and was very different from the "Fantasy" type Star Wars feel, it was more "Science Fiction". The art was the real clincher though! Drawn by the very talented Michael Golden (who I followed in MARVEL's Micronauts), this was the best Star Wars art any had seen in a comic at the time.
The story, "Riders Of The Void" sees Luke and Leia attacked by an Imperial Star Destroyer while on a medical supply run for the Rebellion. When making the jump to light speed the damaged ship malfunctions and Luke and Leia end up outside of the Galaxy in the starless Void between Galaxies. They soon encounter a strange massive organic ship that swallows them up. Inside the ship begins to play a dangerous game with our heroes until Luke and Leia trigger emotion in it's programing and awaken a strange consciousness within.
The two make their way to the bridge where they find a single ancient pilot controlling the ship. The pilot tells them he fought in the last battle of a massive war. When he returned to his home world the enemy had detonated a viral bomb annihilating the entire population. The pilot fled from the virus, which engulfed his Galaxy, far into the void where over time he and the ship became one single being.
Some fans suspect that the events mentioned in that issue should be retroactively considered the earliest appearance of the Yuuzhan Vong and the first mention of the Cremlevian War, but as of yet, no later source has connected those two together.
If you read any issue of MARVEL Star Wars make it this one.
Rider Of The Void and Bio Mechanical Droid
