In a galaxy far, far away...

I remember going through the Sunday Newspaper and picking out the times to see Star Wars. I was a child of divorce and Sunday afternoons happily brought me time with my father. I'm sure it was my sister who went outside to retrieve the paper from our front walk. I can easily recall the full page ads in the entertainment section. After seeing such movies like the Rescuers, the Apple Dumpling Gang, and Escape to Witch Mountain, my father changed my world.

After the effect Star Wars had on me, my grandfather picked me up an oversized comic book of Star Wars. I had this everywhere we went. I wanted to bring it home with me but I was told to leave it in his car. Every time I got in the red monster I had something to do. The other issues I remember getting were 11 and 14. The treasury edition is long gone, eventually being taken home, but 11 and 14 I might still have.

With the new movie due out only a month away, there are no newspapers with full page ads. There are no movie times I can spread across the table and pretend I could see one after the other. Marvel once again tells the tales of Luke, Leia, and Han and I'm enjoying the ride, even if they aren't as good as the imagination of one five year old boy I left back in 1977.

Thanks for reading

Tnerb

Ps. I'm not sure what I saw first between A New Hope and the Rescuers.

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