Card #140: Checklist
Ooh, checklist! Really underscores how oddly named many of the cards in this set are.
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Card #139: Bruce Zick
These aliens look way more trippy and messed up than the cantina aliens in the movie, and I am here for it. Momaw Nadon is clearly having a great time rocking out to that jizz!
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Card #138: Thomas Wm Yeats II
I have no idea what the image on the card is supposed to represent (beyond a shared "space fantasy" vibe), but the green shirt, brown pants & atypical setting make me think of Uli Qel-Droma.
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Card #137: Al Williamson (B)
The way Williamson draws the Snowtrooper armor is great; love the way it seems modular and kit-bashed.
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Card #136: Al Williamson (A)
I don't know how the editors of this set decided which artists got two cards but Williamson absolutely deserved to be one of them.
Pictured: the New Hope dewbacks' cooler, fitter older brother.
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Card #135: Russell Walks
It's more pronounced in Return of the Jedi, but I love Chewie's little scraggly mustache so much.
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Card #134: Charles Vess
Vess giving us a more serene training moment than Yoda's usual "heavy calisthenics while wearing me in a backpack" approach.
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Card #133: John Van Fleet
Good little scene, great sense of movement & place. Busy, but not muddy, and grittier than a lot of the other cards.
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Card #132: Jim Valentino
The Emperor as a grandpa? That would never happen! ๐
The yellow eyes, teeth and nails are a nice touch, giving the image subtle pop of color.
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Card #131: Angelo Torres
One of the few cards in this subset to seemingly try and recreate a specific image/scene from one of the movies.
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Card #130: Greg Theakston
Another great card, with a tremendous amount of its subject's personality depicted via a single static image.
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Card #129: William Stout
One of my favorite cards. Love how the Ewok (presumably Wicket) both blends in to the background but remains the focal point.
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Card #128: Dave Stevens
Luke, seeing one of Stevens' Bettie Page drawings.
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Card #127: Brian Stelfreeze (B)
While I don't share Stelfreeze's admiration for Boba Fett, this is a great piece. I quite like the helmet image in the background.
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Card #126: Brian Stelfreeze (A)
Great Leia. Another card heavily used in the promotion of the series.
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Card #125: Ken Steacy
Contrary to the implication of the cardback text, this is not the first appearance of a womp rat; that occurred in Star Wars #17 back in '78.
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Card #124: Walter Simonson
Simonson's run on the original comic back in the post-Empire, pre-Jedi time period, so presumably he means he never got to have any cool Vader/Luke/Leia conflicts.
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Card #123: Bill Sienkiewicz
A rare for '93 look at the man inside the mask.
Interesting that Sienkiewicz's Fantastic Four work gets cited but not his New Mutants.
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Card #122: Mark Schultz
Schultz working in a Star Wars dinosaur is a cute touch.
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Card #121: P. Craig Russell
I never would have guessed Bib Fortuna would be such a popular subject, but I'm pretty sure he ends up with more cards than, say, Yoda.
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Card #120: Joe Quesada
Future Marvel Editor-in-Chief with a surprisingly mellow but very nice Yoda.
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Card #119: George Pratt
This is the picture hanging on the "Employee of the Month" wall outside Palpatine's office.
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Card #118: George Perez
Even in an extreme closeup, Perez packs in a ton of detail, like the texture on the horns/tusks.
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Card #117: Jason Palmer
A pretty faithful recreation of the scene from the movie, which does a good job of using the sense of scale relative to Luke to heighten the tension.
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Card #116: Allen Nunis
I agree, this is a cool look.
There's been a few different "Leia gets the Boushh gear" stories through the years, but none that have ever quite hooked me.
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Card #115: Earl Norem
Love me some Earl Norem. Thanks to his Masters of the Universe work, he's one of the artists with whom I've been familiar the longest - even if I didn't always know the name.
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Card #114: Mark Nelson
Nelson appears to be taking some...artistic liberties with the looks of Dengar & Zuckuss.
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Card #113: Jon J Muth
Muth tells a great little story with this image, and he's right: at least as he draws it, the droid is creepy as hell.
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Card #112: Jerome Moore
A very comic book-y card.
Always wanted one of these action figures as a kid; they looked cool as hell and I was a sucker for the soft goods cloaks.
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Card #111: Moebius
Do you think Threepio and Dark Helmet ever get together to play action figures together?
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