Jimmy Carson really dominated late night tv on Earth 2.

Gotham is gritty French Connection-era New York. Metropolis is Kansas City in some iterations. For the Superman creators, Siegal and Shuster, I think it was an amalgam of Cleveland and Toronto. The distance between them has been pretty variable. I think now they are next to each other, just separated by a bridge.

I wish Jack Kirby had drawn the comic adaptation. If all he had to go on was a couple of production stills of Vader and a McQuarrie drawing, and he was free to come up with enormous cosmic-crackle machines in the Death Star, that would have been awesome.

One of the things I thought was funny in the comics was the way the Millenium Falcon gradually got bigger and more powerful while Star Destroyers got smaller and weaker, until you reached a point where the Millenium Falcon was about a third the size of a Star Destroyer and was taking them on one-on-one.

Star Wars wasn't released on home video until 1982. The lag for a lot of big movies was pretty long.

There was a theater in Orlando that had dollar matinees on Wednesday. I saw The Empire Strikes Back just about every Wednesday the summer it came out.

Comics Jabba was just a bipedal green dude, wasn't he? I remember there was a story arc that basically resolved all of Han's problems with Jabba that was then completely undone by Empire.

I wonder what—if anything—the big overflowing presentation was at the 1976 Comicon.

To me the most amazing thing about this whole article is the picture of a Star Wars Comicon panel with ample seating.

I agree. You mostly saw Darth Vader through the lens of Luke in the original trilogy. You should have seen Vader mostly through Obi-wan in the prequels.

I like how the invading army, which was moving at the pace of a brisk walk, doesn't take the shortcut through the planet's core but arrives at the capital city at the same time as the people who do take the shortcut through the planet's core.

So, Robin Williams playing Tom Bombadil, then?

I read somewhere that they tweaked some of the effects so some of the effects-heavy scenes amy look slightly different but the story is the same.

I think you could make a pretty good case that Stalin was as absolute a ruler as Hitler. The Nazi party apparatus was pretty analogous to politburo.

The Soviet Union had a similar succession problem and it managed to last for 70 years, through several successions. Nazi regime might have been like that.

If Star Wars hadn't been a commercial hit, he would have had to direct American Graffitti II. He would have been directing a bunch of movies because he needed money, and we wouldn't think of him as an introspective filmmaker, we'd think of him as the guy who's career went downhill after American Graffiti, who made all…

The prequels are basically The Star Wars Holiday Special with a $300 million dollar budget.

I thought Nick Nolte was miscast. I'd like to see Mother Night remade with Michael Fassbender.

The professor from my mythology class is rolling over in his grave. Assuming he's dead, that is.

I would buy a ticket for "Bounty Hunters" and "Lando's Eleven" today.