Somewhere, deep inside of me, a piece of an eight-year-old boy died a horrible death. This is a graphic novelization of George Lucas' original rough-draft screenplay for what would eventually become Star Wars. Now, the eight-year-old me that originally saw the movie might actually have liked this version, given the intense action sequences and . . . and . . . *SOB!* - this book is a hot mess!Do not read this graphic novel if you are looking for:1) Good dialogue.2) Clear differentiation between c...

pretty good comic. interesting to see how the original rough-draft of the screenplay was gonna unfold but I will say that I'm glad he revised and edited it to what we have now.

Thank goodness the original Star Wars has multiple rewrites. Don't get me wrong, this is a nice what could have been look at George Lucas's magnum opus, but I'm glad we got the film we got. So here's the main differences present in "The Star Wars": >Plot-The plot is mostly similar to "A New Hope" with a dash of "Return of the Jedi". >Characters-There are too many characters without well defined personalities. Luckily most of these characters have were combined with others and given their icon pe...

Well, reading this will make you happy that you watched Star Wars & not this on the big screen as a child (if, you know, you did that).

This is a graphic novel adaptation of an early version of the script that eventually became Star Wars. Honestly, the plot was a mess. It's a good thing that the Star Wars script went through a few more rewrites before Lucas went into production. To give an idea of what kind of ridiculous things happen in this story--the Wookies are a primitive species in this story, similar to the Ewoks in the eventual movies, but Luke Skywalker is able to teach them flying in an afternoon and they man the fight...

An interesting bit of history, but quite the mess from every other standpoint. It neatly demonstrates why authors write about a million drafts of their works before they can consider them even remotely finished.The only reason we got to read this one at all is the sheer magnitude of the story and its presence in our hearts, the fairly common knowledge of just what kind of a mess its creation actually was and what a miracle it is it ended up as good as it did, and of course, because a big franchi...

In years past, while sleeping, my mind would come up with "alternate" versions of movies, and show them to me in my dreams. They may have had characters and locations in common with the original films, but, as soon as I woke up, I knew that wasn't the way the film went. This alternate version of A New Hope is like one of those dreams. While I'm glad this wasn't what we got in celluloid form, it's still fun to see a very different take on Lucas' space opera.

This story is terrible, to be frank. The only reason I gave it two stars instead of one is because of its historical interest and because the art by Mike Mayhew is really quite good.I can't really be too harsh in judging this mess of a story, with its overly busy plot, lame characters and clunky dialogue, because it is a rough daft, after all, and George Lucas never intended for this to be seen. At least, I hope not. Even by the standards of the early 1970s this is pretty ridiculous. It's not ev...

I don't normally explain a rating. It's kind of a pet peeve of mine. "This is really a 3.5". Great. In this case, an explanation is needed.THE Star Wars is an adaptation of George Lucas' original rough draft for Star Wars. When rating, it's hard to say what's horrible because of the source material and what's horrible because it's horrible. Benefit of the doubt, it's a competent comic, but good god is the story all sorts of fucked up.I don't know what happened to the Star Wars screenplay between...

Behind every great story is obvious a story about that which never got told: namely the original tale. From the script to the screen is one thing, but what about from the writer’s head on to the initial page? That’s what makes THE STAR WARS – a retelling of George Lucas’s rough draft – honestly even worth the time of day. After all, there’d be zero interest in revisiting any number of forgettable films that come out of Hollywood, but this is STAR WARS! This is the film that shaped a generation o...

All I can say is that I am grateful that this exists in the first place!Great adaptation by J.W. Rinzler and great art by Mike Mayhew - but most importantly - so cool that it is here!This book, which shows George Lucas's very different first draft of Star Wars, takes a while to get used to. But once you drop all your preconceived notions, it's great. I'd advise it to anyone, especially to that Star Wars fan in your life who has seen it all - but not this.

The Star Wars is an unusual book. Only because it's Star Wars does it make sense to anyone to say, "Hey, let's make a graphic novel based on George Lucas's original rough-draft script!" For almost anything else, the original rough draft is simply what gets revised into the final product, and while it may be interesting to note differences from the first pages to the screen, it's not worth fully realizing the rough draft on its own. The whole reason it was revised before filming, after all, is th...

This was really cool!I liked the artwork a lot, however the red lightsabres kinda threw me off (as in, Jedi and Sith use red ones). It was also weird seeing R2 without his blue paint job.I wouldn't mind if for the 50th anniversery LucasFilm/Disney adapted this for a film, and maybe we could get the intented sequel to this. I dunno, I think a lot of the casual fans would get confused, but I think it would still be cool to see.Anyway, if you're not a huge Star Wars fan, this might not be worth you...

Wow. Just. Wow.What an unutterable heap of shite.I should maybe have known when the first issue opens up with 'officially approved by george Lucas!' That things were maybe going to be bad. But this was so unbelievably bad that I was reading with just that sense of slow-motion train-wreck.I'm not even sure where to start. It makes Phantom Menace look like Shakespeare.Okay, there's a sequence where Princess Leia turns to the Skywalker character, and completely out of nowhere, for absolutely no rea...

If you ever longed to see what George Lucas' original story for Star Wars was like: read this comic. And then you'll realize that all of the things that are so crap about the prequel movies is right here: odd pacing, unrealistic timelines, absurd developments,... I wonder how this mess ever resulted in the first Star Wars movie; Lucas obviously must have had a lot of help along the way.

What a trip. It's like they took everything about Star Wars, put it in a box, and shook it up hard. Everything is kind of but not really recognizable, and I thought it was a lot of fun.

Dark Horse for around 20 years held on to the license for producing Star Wars comics and in that time created some great Star Wars stories. The Star Wars was one of the final projects Dark Horse Comics launched with this license back in 2014. Soon after the publishing of this series the rights to publish all future Star Wars comics and graphic novels switched over to Marvel who have put out some amazing Star Wars universe building material. I hate to say it, and this is through no fault of their...

This is an interesting follow-up to reading Alan Dean Foster's novelization of the real Star Wars, because while that had some interesting expansions on what we got on screen, this is a messy and kinda crappy prototype of the galaxy far, far away. Now, I will say that the art is generally pretty good, and the fact that I kept getting Whitsun and Annikin confused is more down to having too many characters than anything else. I think the writer and artist did about as well as can be expected given...

A vivid example of why drafting is vital to figuring out the best version of a story.Rinzler and Mayhew do an admirable job of showing how George Lucas's Star Wars could have appeared on-screen. Back when it was 'The Star Wars', Lucas seemed to be writing a love letter to Flash Gordon with a staggering amount of world-building. This iteration of the plot was very ambitious but lacked the viewer-friendly nuance of the eventual screenplay.In this graphic novel, Luke Skywalker starts the story as a...

Boy, was this bad. While the Dark Horse Star Wars comics have always suffered from pretty shoddy writing, bad dialogue, and art that's just good enough to get the job done, I've always been able to overlook that because there were some decent Star Wars tales underneath all that. The Star Wars is not one of those tales.The Star Wars is a comic book adaptation of George Lucas's original first draft script for Star Wars. The problem here is if the first draft was any good, the movies would have mor...