gull *Plus!*

because the version most foundational to like, my view on it is (a compilation reprint of) its old marvel comic adaptation issues. like obviously it's not the first version i was exposed to but that shit was some of my favorite bathroom reading for years when i was younger. to me star wars feels just a little incomplete without luke doing routine vaporator work before spotting a Space Battle or shooting the shit with his local peers at tosche station or hanging with biggs, or without jabba (or like, Early Deleted-Scene Human Jabba, anyway. i dont buy that Slugboy would make the trip out to mos eisley.) coming to gently remind Han of the kind of hot water the smuggler is in after the Greedo stunt. theres something about the little peeks into the lives the cast lead just outside the scope of the Space Wizard Destiny Present. luke especially - like, do you think little wormie kept in touch with anyone back on Nowhere Sandplanet after he got that medal draped over him? had he talked to deak and camie and fixer at any point in the intervening decades leading to his demise? did he ever get the chance to tell them about biggs? do you think maybe they all got together one more time to mourn him