THE COMICS Bothan Spynet

type: Comics
authors: John Wagner (writer)
Kilian Plunkett (penciller)
P. Craig Russell (inker)
company: Dark Horse Comics
 
release date: 6-issue series - May 1996
hardcover edition - April 1997

"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


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