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''The Star Wars'' is an 8-issue comic book mini-series published under the non-canon ''Infinities'' label of the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' franchise, released in 2013 and later rereleased in trade paperback and as part of ''Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Infinities Volume 1''. It is a retrospective EarlyDraftTieIn that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]] -- based on Creator/GeorgeLucas' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen first draft of the film from 1974.]]

** Darth Vader himself is MUCH worse than he was in the movies. The comic lacks any signs of a possible HeelFaceTurn from him, he's crueler towards Leia, taking sadistic pleasure in torturing her, and his reasons for ultimately betraying the Emperor are for entirely selfish reasons.

''The Star Wars'' is an 8-issue comic book mini-series published under the non-canon ''Infinities'' label of the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' franchise, released in 2013 and later rereleased in trade paperback and as part of ''Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Infinities Volume 1''. It is a retrospective EarlyDraftTieIn that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]] -- based on [[WhatCouldHaveBeen George Lucas's first draft of the film from 1974.]]

* AdaptationalJerkass: Princess Leia is much ruder here than her canon counterpart, and has a SlapSlapKiss thing going on with Annikin.

* AlternateContinuity: The miniseries is set in it's own continuity that is separate from both the canon timeline of the original movies and the Legends timeline based on them.

* GeorgeLucasThrowback: The influence from Flash Gordon serials is a lot more obvious here, in terms of visual design and plot structure.

** The establishing shot where they see Gordon Spaceport is based on directly on one of Ralph Macquarrie's concept paintings of Luke seeing Mos Eisley in ''A New Hope''. While driving through the town, a vehicle based on Luke's original landspeeder can be seen in the background. Luke slicing off the head of one of the thugs in the Gordon Spaceport Cantina is a reference to the fact that in the original film, the plan was for Obi Wan to slice off Pondo Baba's head in addition to his arm, as proven by a behind the scenes photo.

* TooDumbToLive: For some reason, the Space Fortress has it's reactor core on the outside of the station. At least the original Death Star hid its core below an exhaust port!

* MotorMouth: R2 in this time is a chatterbox who is ''constantly'' whining and won't shup up. When their escape pod lands on Aquilae, Threepio gets so fed up with it that he ''lunges at him'', picks him up and throws him far away from him!

** Valorum, who was a well meaning chancellor in ''The Phantom Menace'', is revealed to be a Sith Knight in this continuity.

** The Space Fortress (the early idea for the Death Star) has no superlaser dish here (although the cover depicts it has having one, [[CoversAlwaysLie it's not present in the story]]). It isn't shielded here either, as a starfighter strafe is able to blow open a small chunk of it, sucking out chunks of its crew from the inside.

* WhatIf: The entire premise of the miniseries is "What if Star Wars had been told exactly as it was written in it's 1974 story draft?"

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In the grand ''Star Wars'' tradition, there are quite a few characters, even if many of them are just background dressing. Just to give you an idea, our central cast at its height is Luke, Whitsun, Annikin, Leia, R2, 3PO, Biggs and Windy, and Han, with occasional support from Kane, Chewie, and the Larses.

** The obligatory Starkiller reference, a reference to Luke Skywalker's early surname, has its origin shown here as the suname of both Annikin and Kane Starkiller.

''The Star Wars'' is an 8-issue comic book mini-series published under the non-canon ''Infinities'' label of the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' franchise, released in 2013 and later rereleased in trade paperback and as part of ''Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Infinities Volume 1''. It is a notable WhatIf tale that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]] -- based on [[WhatCouldHaveBeen George Lucas's first draft of the film from 1974.]]

** Darth Vader himself is MUCH worse than he was in the movies.

!Tropes:

** Deak, Annikin's younger brother, is modeled in appearance after Anakin Skywalker's younger self from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. He even says "Yippee!" at one point. Valorum is named after Chancellor Valorum from ''The Phantom Menace''. In the third issue, the Imperials are seen using STAPs similar to the kind used by the Trade Federation. A side character is also named Count Sandage, with his surname taken from bit player Wan Sandage from Episode 1.

** The establishing shot where they see Gordon Spaceport is based on directly on one of Ralph Macquarrie's concept paintings of Luke seeing Mos Eisley in A New Hope. While driving through the town, a vehicle based on Luke's original landspeeder can be seen in the background. Luke slicing off the head of one of the thugs in the Gordon Spaceport Cantina is a reference to the fact that in the original film, the plan was for Obi Wan to slice off Pondo Baba's head in addition to his arm, as proven by a behind the scenes photo.

* ShoutOut: C-3PO's design is much more obviously inspired by Maria from ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''.
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''The Star Wars'' is an 8-issue comic book mini-series published under the non-canon ''Infinities'' label of the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' franchise, released in 2013 and later rereleased in trade paperback and as part of ''Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Infinities Volume 1''. It is a notable WhatIf tale that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]] -- based on [[WhatCouldHaveBeen George Lucas's original draft of the plot from 1974.]]