#Valance the Hunter

[fandom-menace]

Star Wars Weekly covers with floating heads!

[cantsayidont]

Some more highlights of the Archie Goodwin/Carmine Infantino STAR WARS comics from the period between the first two movies.

Issue #28. Han can't resist being snotty even to someone who's been actively trying to kill him for days:

Issue #29. The bounty hunter Valance finds that Darth Vader is no easy opponent:

Issue #30. Leia on her own, infiltrating an Imperial installation:

Issue #33. Baron Orman Tagge (elder brother of the officer who complains to Vader in the movie about the dangers of the Rebels having the plans to the Death Star) has been practicing for years with the lightsaber in hopes of avenging himself on Vader. Luke demonstrates that it won't be quite so easy:

Issue #34. Even months before THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, Leia does clearly like scoundrels at least a little:

Issue #35. Dark Horse later dragged out Vader's efforts to discover the identity of the pilot who destroyed the Death Star in a disappointing and mediocre four-issue miniseries (VADER'S QUEST). Goodwin and Infantino handle it in a splash page:

Issue #36. Han Solo offers some important life advice:

Vader corrupts Orman Tagge's sister Domina, whom Orman has unsuccessfully attempted to keep out of the family's political intrigues by making her a priestess of a monastic order. (Domina Tagge has recently reappeared in the DOCTOR APHRA series, where she has the same outfit, but not the same background or motivations — she's now just a SW version of Lena Luthor from SUPERGIRL.)

Han can't ever leave well enough alone:

Issue #37. Orman Tagge belatedly realizes how out of his depth he's always been in his rivalry with Darth Vader:

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[thebestcomicbookpanels]

Star Wars #29 by Carmine Infantino

[legends-expo]

Panel Announcement: Make Mine Marvel Writers Abel Peña, Jason Fry and Michael Kogge take a look back at the original Star Wars Marvel comics! This panel will be on Sunday.

Get your tickets now, and join us on September 9th & 10th in Burbank, CA! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legends-consortium-2023-tickets-541786186067

[princess-lil-spidey]

Comparing Some Boy Meets World Characters to Some The Outsiders Characters

It had to happen eventually

Sodapop Curtis and Eric Matthews:

Both are my favorites

Struggle intellectually but are very empathetic

Overlooked by their families

Optimistic characters overall, even when they deal with hardships

Very good relationships with their younger siblings

Ponyboy Curtis and Cory Matthews:

Younger brothers

Both the main characters in their stories

Learning how to deal with life during their teen years

Tries to overcome and be friends with people of different economic classes

The story is told from their view

Dallas Winston as Shawn Hunter:

Both the real “outsiders” of society

Get up to mischief

Has a found family through their friends

Many of the emotional moments go to these characters

Hard exterior, but soft interior towards their friends (especially their best friend)

Steve Randle as Jack Hunter:

I actually don’t have a lot of evidence for this

The smarter best friend of Soda/Eric

That’s basically it

Cherry Valance as Topanga Lawrence:

Both love interests to the main character

Very independent and has their own thoughts and opinions

Also not much for this

Ok so now I’m writing this out, I had less connections than I originally thought. But anyways I love making connections so this was very fun for me!

[comicwaren]

“I am not going to end up as some mindless droid!” -- Beilert Valance

Cover art for Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #037, “The Path of the Righteous, Part 1”

Art by Marco Checchetto and Marcio Menyz

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[reddslym]

it might just be the fact that Beilert Valance was like, Cable before Cable, but Bounty Hunters feels like if Star Wars got an edgy 90s comic? like the composition of panels is very early 90s, reminds me specifically of like, X-Force and Jim Lee's X-Men stuff. You have Boba Fett being a right bastard (jarring after BoBF lol).

Its like edgy 90s vibes with modern sensibilities.

[thebibliomancer]

Is there a more iconic Star Wars duo than Zuckuss and 4LOM?

[starwarsbookclub]

Hello There Readers,

The theme poll has closed and the votes are in! We are excited to announce that the theme for January is FIRST OF A SERIES!

The novel and comic polls are now live in our Discord Server, and you have until 10pm BST (5pm EDT) December 11th to vote for what we will be reading together next month. Our options are listed below:

NOVELS

1. Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn 2. The High Republic: Path of Deceit by Tessa Grafton and Justina Ireland 3. Aftermath by Chuck Wendig

COMICS

1. Adventures: Tales from Vader's Castle (2019)  2. Star Wars: Skywalker Strikes (2015) 3. Bounty Hunters (2020)

Happy voting in the Discord Server, and may the force be with you!

- Star Wars Book Club

[cantsayidont]

October 1978. The first appearance of the bounty hunter Valance, who has recently made a comeback in the modern STAR WARS comics. Created by Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson, Valance is a cyborg, a former Stormtrooper officer who had been grievously wounded by a Rebel air raid and who now expresses his self-loathing through a pathological hatred of Droids and automata. (His secretiveness seems merited in these stories, which indicate that cyborgs experience a high level of mistrust and social stigma. I assume this is something Goodwin extrapolated from the "We don't serve their kind" stuff in the first movie, although the degree of prejudice and outright loathing Valance faces when people know he's a cyborg isn't really borne out by later SW media.)

The next issue box is a bit misleading; THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK wasn't released until a year or so after this issue appeared. Also, the story to which the box refers (which is indeed called "The Empire Strikes!") didn't actually appear until issue #18. The issue following this one ended up being a fill-in story about Luke and Biggs prior to the events of the first movie, with art by Herb Trimpe and Al Milgrom rather than regular penciller Carmine Infantino. The delay probably had something to do with the juggling act required to produce the U.S. and UK versions of the comic — the stories that ran in the U.S. monthly color series were published more or less contemporaneously in eight-page B&W installments in the British STAR WARS WEEKLY, a logistical nightmare that necessitated the use of two distinctly different inkers and a number of fill-ins to make the math work.

[dinosaurgiantpenny]

Eat shit, Lord Vader

[suitdistracted]

Baltimore Dining Room Example of a large classic medium tone wood floor and brown floor kitchen/dining room combo design

[enfysandember]

For Valancenation