Cool Art: Cover Art & Trailer For The Comic Adaptation Of George Lucas' 'The Star Wars' Script

'The Star Wars', an eight-issue comic launching September 4 from Dark Horse Comics, is an adaptation of George Lucas' first rough draft from May 1974 of a story that imagines galactic drama between an all-encompassing Empire, the fledgling rebel alliance forming to fight it, an ancient order of Jedi and the evil Sith warriors tapped to wipe out those Jedi. It's Star Wars, but not as we know it today. If you got a copy of the preview issue on Free Comic Book Day on May 4 you'll have an idea of what to expect.

Princess Leia still needs saving; the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 (who actually talks) are there, as is Chewbacca; and the Jedi mentor-apprentice relationship of Obi-Wan Kenobi and farmboy Luke Skywalker is replaced by that of wizened war vet Luke Skywalker and farmboy Annikin Starkiller. Han Solo is a green lizard and there are no lightsabres, just laser swords.

And there's also a different opening titles crawl (cue John Williams opening theme):

The Star Wars 

Until the recent Great Rebellion,

the Dai Nogas were the most feared

warriors in the universe. For one

hundred thousand years, generations

of Dai perfected their art as the

personal bodyguards of the King.

They were the chief architects of

the invincible Royal Space Force,

which expanded the King's power

across the galaxy from the celestial

equator to the farthest stars.

Now these legendary warriors are all

but extinct. One by one, they have

been hunted down and destroyed as

enemies of the New Galactic Kingdom

by a ferocious and sinister rival

warrior sect, the Legions Of Lettow.

'The Star Wars' is written by JW Rinzler and illustrated by Mike Mayhew and out on September 4 from Dark Horse Comics.

Check out the cover art for the first two issues and a trailer too below.

'The Star Wars' #1 by Nick Runge

Cool Art: 'The Star Wars' Debut Issue Covers

Check out these covers for the debut issue of Dark Horse Comics adaptation of George Lucas' original Star Wars script. The first issue will be on sale September 4 2013.

Before Star Wars, there was The Star Wars! This is the authorized adaptation of George Lucas’s rough-draft screenplay of what would eventually become a motion picture that would change the world. 

Annikin Starkiller is the hero . . . Luke Skywalker is a wizened Jedi general . . . Han Solo is a big green alien . . . and the Sith . . . Well, the Sith are still the bad guys. High adventure and derring-do from longer ago, in a galaxy even further away!

The Star Wars #1 (Regular Cover) by Nick Runge

The Star Wars #1 (Variant Cover) by Jan Duursema

The Star Wars #1 (Ultra Variant Cover) by Doug Wheatley