| THE COMICS |
Bothan Spynet |
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| type: |
Comics |
| authors: |
John Wagner (writer)
Kilian
Plunkett (penciller)
P. Craig
Russell (inker) |
| company: |
Dark Horse Comics |
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| release date: |
6-issue series -
May 1996
hardcover edition - April 1997 |
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"Did your
mommy ever tell you you were gonna die sudden, pal?"
"The name's Jix. Remember it. Even if your pals nail me,
it's going to be the last name you hear."
Big Gizz
and Jix in Mos Eisley
The comics were written and drawn
at the same time of the novel, so the first issue could be
released immediately after the book. However, the story told by
the comics has got lots of differences. The first, and most
important one, is that the comics tells what happenned to Boba
Fett and his "friends", the bounty hunters hired by
Darth Vader to find the Millennium Falcon in The
Empire Strikes Back. It also tells the story of Jix, Darth
Vader's assistant, who infiltrated Jabba the Hutt's swoop gang to
prevent that band of criminals of killing Luke Skywalker. Steve
Perry, author of the Shadows' novel, was a consultant of
the comics. While the stories in the book and comics seldom
intersected, it was necessary that characters, scenes, and
dialogue match when they did come together.
Click
on each cover (painted by Hugh Fleming) for a larger version
