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Fragments from the Mind's Eye

date posted: Jul 12, 2006 8:18 PM | updated: Jul 12, 2006 8:31 PM

There's a reason for that...

Reading through my old Marvel comics, I found this letter rather amusing. It appears in Star Wars #24, published June 1979...

Dear Archie,
I love, love, love what you are doing with the STAR WARS series, but may I offer one small criticism? I feel that one of the most charming aspects of the original movie's ending was the sweet affection between Luke and Princess Leia. However, in your comic series they act more like brother and sister than sweethearts. I know you can't do anything that would conflict with the upcoming sequel, but since it has already been clearly established that Luke and Leia are in love, I don't think it would spoil anything that will be shown in the sequel if you gave a little more emphasis to the romance between them in future Marvel installments. I'm sure many other STAR WARS fans would agree and be pleased to see this too. Keep up the excellent work.

Reina A. Greene
Alexandria, VA.

ph

http://blogs.starwars.com/pablog/82

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	Nathan P. Butler The Home of Fan Audio
date Posted: Jul 12, 2006 8:27 PM Now, see, if that letter had been from WEST Virginia, I'm told that the reason you allude to wouldn't have mattered quite so much.

	Dark Spork Sporktastic Voyage
date Posted: Jul 12, 2006 8:28 PM ...since it has already been clearly established that Luke and Leia are in love... Hopeless shippers are eternal. I wonder if she writes incestfic now...

	The Dark Moose Moose Poodoo
date Posted: Jul 12, 2006 8:28 PM I find myself wavering between bemusement and revulsion. Oh what the hey, why be picky. :0)

	Avlon Female SW Fans Unite!
date Posted: Jul 12, 2006 8:30 PM lol, great find. I wonder where Reina is today...

	MissPadme Miss Padme's Naboo Love Nest
date Posted: Jul 12, 2006 8:32 PM Bwahahahahahaha!

gold5
I lost Tiree, lost Dutch!..or How I learned to stop worrying and love the Death Star.

date Posted: Jul 12, 2006 8:52 PM

Ha! Thats hilarious. Wouldn't you've liked to see her face after ROTJ. Thanks for sharing your find. I was just looking through my comics last night trying to find my four issues of vintage SW comics. They're good for a laugh.

*On a side note* In my last blog I have a link showing the Vader autograph I spoke of in my first blog. BTW it was cool seeing who the guy was, in a imagination crushing sort of way. Hmm, on second thought....

	Son of a Bith The Cantina Corner
date Posted: Jul 12, 2006 9:10 PM x 10,000 I would really like this woman to be found.

	NerfHerdersAnonymous Life, the Star Wars Universe and Everything
date Posted: Jul 12, 2006 9:59 PM heheh, I bet she never lived that down. I'm sure her friends ribbed her (probably still do) about it. ah...poor dear. giggle

	nob01 Oil Bath Bubbles
date Posted: Jul 13, 2006 12:51 AM Yeah, there was definitely something going on between those two.

	Sompeetalay Sompeetalay's Source Blog
date Posted: Jul 13, 2006 4:40 AM Cool In the Dutch marvels, there were no letters printed. They're always fun to read.

	JMMC
date Posted: Jul 13, 2006 5:34 AM I've noticed on occasion that there are a lot of funny letters along those lines. Sometimes, the responses from the editors are just as funny, since they really don't know what's coming either. I'm sure there's lots of fun continuity silliness in those letter pages. Might be a fun compilation for someone to put together. JMM

	Bubba1227 Ramblings of a Completely Unofficial IA Engineer
date Posted: Jul 13, 2006 5:50 AM Hey, her letter was valid... from a certain point of view. I've been re-reading a lot of the EU novels, and in Before the Storm there's a quote that Yoda had been living on Dagobah for a hundred years when Luke discovered him in ESB. Even the people paid by LFL get it wrong sometimes! (...but not pabawan )

	Hedec Ga War Journal of Hedec Ga
date Posted: Jul 13, 2006 6:10 AM Now see! THIS is exactly why fans shouldn't always get their way

	Zelaskowski
date Posted: Jul 13, 2006 11:06 AM Excellent find!!!! Thanks for the laugh. And, yeah, Nerfherder, you KNOW she gets teased about it all the time!!!! Poor thing.

	Darthcharlie32 The Cantina at the End of the Universe!
date Posted: Jul 13, 2006 12:14 PM I JUST read that letter! Gorram funny letter now, it was probably caused a stirring of followers back in 80

	Darth OCD
date Posted: Jul 13, 2006 4:57 PM ROFL

	Adam_wan_kenobi Steppin' softly... in a danger zone!
date Posted: Jul 13, 2006 7:51 PM Priceless!

	jedi_peace19
date Posted: Jul 14, 2006 12:17 AM brilliant!!

	O.J.
date Posted: Jul 14, 2006 3:35 AM it has already been clearly established that Luke and Leia are in love She was right, though, one of the trailers states it explicitly. "In danger. In love. In STAR WARS."

	Darthvegeta800000
date Posted: Jul 14, 2006 4:23 AM Rofl! Good find. Poor girl.

	clone128
date Posted: Jul 14, 2006 5:14 AM people that have clone pictures, where did you get them?

	Darth_Loxsar
date Posted: Jul 14, 2006 7:06 AM oh man, ive had a crappy morning and that cheered me up a bit...thanks

	darth maul #25
date Posted: Jul 14, 2006 8:09 AM It was so awsome that u shared that with us!! I bet it was a lot of work on ur part to try to bring that to us, and i'm very greatful for ur wisdom in sharing that with us!! To bad for that person though, they eventually find out that was his sister and everything that she was thinking was very wrong!! i mean, like wrong!! J/K LoL!!

	darth maul #25
date Posted: Jul 14, 2006 8:10 AM Thanks a lot!!

	Den Dhur
date Posted: Jul 14, 2006 3:06 PM This is hilarious. Good thing the fans don't always get what they want.

	srodgers
date Posted: Jul 14, 2006 3:25 PM Now, see, if that letter had been from WEST Virginia, I'm told that the reason you allude to wouldn't have mattered quite so much. My Grandfather was from West Virginia, Let's keep the comments at StarTrek or Babylon 5 or something like that, okay? And before anyone writes anything, what would you be touchy about? A Newcomer writing on these boards.

	Qui-Tom Servo loves Padme You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned
date Posted: Jul 14, 2006 3:45 PM You know it's funny, but I don't think the film clearly established that Luke and Leia were in love. It's clear that Luke has a crush on Leia, but Leia seems to be hedging her bets between Han and Luke.

	obi-wan_kenobi77
date Posted: Jul 14, 2006 6:08 PM Oy vey! I bet she feels like a complete idiot now! Bwahahahaha!

Oocleenee
KViKJNJJ

date Posted: Jul 14, 2006 7:11 PM

The only love between leia and luke were hinted at in the trailers. Nothing really happened in the epi4 film except one kiis for luck where luke obviously enjoyed that a lot as the look in his eyes would suggest.

I found that article reflective of many opinions of that era. You only had one film out at that point and was an honest wuestion on her part haha. Seems ridiculous now knowing what we know.

I remember being veru surprised at han and leia getting extra friendly as I had assumed it would be Luke and Leia then.

of course I was only 11 when TESB came out, I mean what did I know about love then.

	legostarw This will be a blog long remembered...
date Posted: Jul 14, 2006 8:04 PM Ahhhh...like obi-wan_kenobi said, if that person ever saw that letter...whoa...don't hate yourself too much...none of us truly knew what was gonna happen until the movie came out...

TheSithEmpire

date Posted: Jul 14, 2006 11:20 PM

Great letter. I wish they had reprinted those in the A Long Time Ago trades, but alas, that's one of the perks of owning the originals I guess (that, and you're not bothered by those smug, inappropriate introductions.)

When you read those letters, especially if you had been around back then, it takes you back to the time when kids and young teens were so much less jaded and spoiled. How much more refreshing is it to read those old letters than all of the vitriolic bile we're forced to wade through on some of the online forums!

	TalonCard86 The Mofference is now in session!
date Posted: Jul 15, 2006 2:28 AM I've had a copy of that letter for years--there should be a website dedicated to it.

	Halagad Only Sith Deal In Absolutes!
date Posted: Jul 15, 2006 3:05 PM I love these.

	Jay-Dub Jinn 748 There's always a bigger blog...
date Posted: Jul 15, 2006 3:35 PM However, in your comic series they act more like brother and sister than sweethearts. That woman's a prophetess.

	bonniegrrl Droids Just Wanna Have Fun
date Posted: Jul 17, 2006 10:20 AM wow... Reina must have had one heck of a shock during Empire. Please keep posting these old school letters! I can't wait to read the retro letter from a fan asking if Ben was really Luke's father.

DJ Maul: Got Feet?
DJ Maul's Dancin' Cantina Party

date Posted: Jul 17, 2006 1:35 PM

there WERE hints of Luke & Leia's budding "romance" in the first EU novel, "Splinter Of The MInds Eye."

While ist a great book, they got SO much stuff wrong, in retrospect, and its pretty cringeworthy everytime the book makes some mention of how Leia would make Luke have funny feelings inside...at one point he's eyeing her up in a tight fitting uniform covered in MUD...yikes!

I do remember the editors at Marvel commenting on how they were NOT allowed to do a lot of stuff due to Lucasfilm restrictions...now we all know WHY.

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