First it was Mike Mayhew and Star Trek and Doctor Who.
Then it was Mike Mayhew and Green Arrow.
Then it was Mike Mayhew and The Bionic Man and The Bionic Woman.
Now it’s Mike Mayhew and Star Wars.
Isn’t it great when the stars align and the people creating new entertainment are in sync with your view of the world? Like taking your all-time favorite genre franchise and mixing it with your current favorite artist?
To quote Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “This is just… neat.”
The comic book licensee to the Star Wars universe, Dark Horse Comics has announced one of the coolest ideas you could put together. Go back to George Lucas’s original take on Star Wars–before the edits and revisions and treatments and full-blown screenplays. Take that original story and re-imagine the Star Wars universe as if the original vision was Star Wars. That’s exactly what long-time Lucasfilm executive editor J.W. Rinzler and current The Bionic Man cover artist Mike Mayhew have up their sleeves. Coming in September 2013 is an eight-issue mini-series, titled The Star Wars, the title of Lucas’s 1974 version of the Star Wars saga.
The images above and below are Mike Mayhew’s first released panel art from The Star Wars.
