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Anthony says: Spinning off from Marvel Comics' Star Wars issues 7-10 comes RAW RATS. Why are they called the RAW RAT? Because they are tough and pink and are often caught in places authority figures don't want them to be in. The Rats are smugglers and guns-for-hire. With the destruction of the Empire, Jaxxon the Rabbit and Amaiza team-up to try to make a living on a post-war Tatooine. During one of their smuggling runs, they rescue the body of Jolli the Space-Pirate. Jolli's space coffin had passed through some cosmic rays….mysteriously bringing her back to life. Their first issue will see them reluctantly playing the god guys as they strive to save Tatooine from being taken over by the Earth-seeking beings in the Battlestar Galactica. Meanwhile, a ship sent by the ominous-sounding Federation has arrived on Tatooine via time-war. The ship is callled the Enterprise and the Raw Rats have to determine if they are friends or foes. Also, Amaiza finds out she's pretty good with a lightsaber. Future issues will re-introduce the threat of Valance the Hunter and there will be a reunion of the Aduba-8. Issue three will introduce us to a major new star….Han Solo's sister!
Jaxxon was created by Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin. Read more...
Good stuff, Anthony!
ReplyDeleteWait, so which green space rabbit came first, Jaxxon or Bucky O'Hare?
ReplyDeleteJaxxon is hell of the O.G. green space rabbit.
ReplyDeleteAnthony, I think you may have lost your mind.
ReplyDeleteI had completely forgot about that green rabbit.
I never noticed that there was a resemblance between him and Bucky O'Hare....
ReplyDeletenow I see it.
Okay....here's the descriptive text without my spelling mistakes:
ReplyDeleteSpinning off from Marvel Comics' Star Wars issues 7-10 comes RAW RATS. Why are they called the RAW RATS? Besides being short for PiRATeS, it is because they are tough and pink and are often caught in places authority figures don't want them to be in. The Rats are smugglers and guns-for-hire. With the destruction of the Empire, Jaxxon the Rabbit and Amaiza team-up to try to make a living on a post-war Tatooine. During one of their smuggling runs, they rescue the body of Jolli the Space-Pirate. Jolli's space coffin had passed through some cosmic rays….mysteriously bringing her back to life. Their first issue will see them reluctantly playing the good guys as they strive to save Tatooine from being taken over by Earth-seeking beings in the Battlestar Galactica. Meanwhile, a ship sent by the ominous-sounding Federation has arrived on Tatooine via time-warp. The ship is callled the Enterprise and the Raw Rats have to determine if they are friends or foes. Also, Amaiza finds out she's pretty good with a lightsaber. Future issues will re-introduce the threat of Valance the Hunter and there will be a reunion of the Aduba-8. Issue three will introduce us to a major new star….Han Solo's sister!
This.Is.AWESOME!!!
ReplyDeleteI've always loved Jaxxon and the other assorted weirdos from the comic's early days.
Wow! Just this week I started re-reading the Marvel Star Wars series, forgot how great these characters were! Their version of Jabba is friggin hilarious! Lovely work there, sir- I want to read it!
ReplyDeleteOh yeah...that yellow-Walrus Jabba...like some Fraggle Rock fugitive.
ReplyDeleteI LOVED those early Star Wars issues....
The issue with those Acid-emitting bugs who want to eat the Millennium Falcon FREAKED me out!
The waterworld stuff was great....Valance the Hunter vs. Darth Vader (him keeping the secret about Luke's identity....loved that stuff).
I could never understand why people who loved the movies weren't reading the comics and the novels. I guess they thought it wasn't canonical.
I think I stopped buying them at the end of the Jedi adaptation, though. The art stopped being interesting to me.
Personally, as a budding artist, I loved the Cindy Martin issues post-Jedi. So slick, dreamy, and funny (albeit a departure from what we'd seen prior in the series).
DeleteI'll have to revisit those issues.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! You should make sure Roy Thomas sees this!
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