> On Aug 7, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
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>> On Aug 6, 2015, at 8:38 PM, Graham Donald <xxxxxx@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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>> I found online an English translation of an 'unauthorised' comic book adaptation of Star Wars published in China sometime during the 1980s (Since Bobba Fett appears in this it's definitely after 'Empire Strikes Back' came out').
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>> Chinese Star Wars Comic (Part 1 of 6) - Nick Stember
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>> The site I found it on compared the visuals to a Traveller campaign
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> Awesome, the rebel ‘escape pod’ is pretty clearly a Gemini capsule. <http://www.nickstember.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Chinese_star_wars_comic_manhua_llianhuanhua17-1024x824.jpg> <http://www.rlbeward.net/ModelGallery/GeminiX-1to24.JPG>
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> Uncle Owen looks like a pirate, sword and all.
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> There were saguaros on Tatooine. Clearly the same planet as Coyote and Roadrunner :-)
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> Lukes land speeder is a DC-10.
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> This is all sorts of awesomesauce. Thanks for the link!

Vader, on the Death Star considering his targets <http://www.nickstember.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Chinese_star_wars_comic_manhua_llianhuanhua-781.jpg>

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