Carlos Garzon
Author of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (The Marvel Comics Version)
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Works by Carlos Garzon
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (The Marvel Comics Version) (1980) — Illustrator — 298 copies, 4 reviews
Cosmic Odyssey Graphic Novel Comic / Book Two : Disaster (2) (1988) — Illustrator — 10 copies, 1 review
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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (The Official Comics Version) (1995) — Illustrator — 264 copies, 1 review
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This is not strictly a scene-for-scene, line-by-line recreation of what you know. Like most adaptations that are composed at the same time as the film is in post-production, it has elements from earlier scripts and features scenes that were later cut, while missing others that were later added. It does not open with a star destroyer, and it includes the wampa attack on the rebel base. Darth Vader requests his ship as he is leaving Cloud City, which we didn't see him do on screen until the 1997 special edition.
Objects are not always accurately scaled (Yoda and the Executor, especially), and the shading gives an odd look to some scenes; as a prisoner of Cloud City, Han Solo looks ready for the discotheque. These are minor quibbles to me. I loved, and still love, every frame of my treasured copy and the fuel this provided to my young imagination. The original film trilogy is a significant memory for me and ESB most of all, in part because of this.… (more)