shit directed at you personally. You deserve a lot of kudos for talking honestly about your experiences without making personal attacks. You've consistently shown respect for Roy Thomas, as an editor who had to deal with a lot of front office knuckleheads during his stint as Marvel EIC, and as someone who was way ahead of the curve on Conan and Star Wars.

Roy's comments about you have been less complimentary. This is just speculation, but Roy was in the first wave of fresh blood that entered the comics field in the mid-Sixties: Roy in 1965, followed shortly by Goodwin and O'Neil, and a few years later by Wein and Wolfman, and then by people that Roy brought in, such as Englehart and Gerber. Despite your work for Mortvery good. Chaykin was a logical choice to do the art, since Hans Solo owes a lot to Ironwolf and Cody Starbuck, but Chaykin's Star Wars art didn't have any of the charm of those earlier series. My recollection is that he mostly did layouts, with Steve Leialoha doing the finishes. The whole thing seemed rushed and kind of cheap, and Roy's scripts were pedestrian and devoid of the humor found in the movie. Of course, it probably was impossible to do a faithful adaptation working from a plot outline or a preliminary script, and some stills. There haven't been many good movie adaptations, probably for that reason.

While I appreciate that Star Wars saved Marvel's bacon in the mid to late Seventies, it was just another disappointing comic