hutch (01/27/83)
HOT OFF THE SHOWTIME INTERVIEW WITH MARK HAMMILL seems the interviewer asked Hammill about the rumor that Skywalker picks up a new, horribly cute companion who "makes E.T. look wimpy" and as expected, Hammill answered, "Oh, I make a LOT of new friends . . ." Speculation thus runs rampant. I confess to having bought every copy of the Star Wars comic mag (Marvel), even after Empire Strikes Out came along and trashed the comic storyline so badly that it hasn't recovered. One of the most nauseatingly cute things that Marvel did was to introduce a planet, currently the major Rebel base, which is populated by rabbits. Not your ordinary rabbits, nor funny-animal rabbits, these are telepathic rabbits with BIG BROWN EYES and LONG FLOOPY EARS. Perhaps these things will become official Lucas material. (Yetch) Or perhaps the new companion is the "other" that Yoda mentioned in ESB: his nephew. Or any relative. Any other muppet. Enough of this. Back to work.