{"id":42255,"date":"2014-05-28T17:03:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T23:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/28\/star-wars-communist-chinese-bootleg-comic-book-style.html"},"modified":"2014-05-29T06:55:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T12:55:55","slug":"star-wars-communist-chinese-bootleg-comic-book-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/28\/star-wars-communist-chinese-bootleg-comic-book-style.html","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars, Communist Chinese Bootleg Comic Book Style"},"content":{"rendered":"
This little (certainly non-authorized) Chinese comic book adaptation of the original Star Wars<\/i> movie is … surreal. Pretty much, as far as I can tell, they had a plot synopsis, publicity photos (from Empire,<\/i> too), and anything else just got filled in with other Western imagery and SF pictures and paperback covers and toys.<\/p>\n

It's crazy, but in a surreally beautiful way.<\/p>\n

The article has, at the bottom, links to scans of the entire thing, which is worth a read (esp. with a drink of choice in your hand).\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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A Long Time Ago in a China Far, Far Away …<\/a>
\n As much as I don’t miss large swaths of life in China, I do look longingly at kongfz.com, the world’s best secondhand book website, and remember with pleasure being able to purchase a lot of source…\n <\/p>\n

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This little (certainly non-authorized) Chinese comic book adaptation of the original Star Wars movie is … surreal. Pretty much, as far as I can tell, they had a plot synopsis, publicity photos (from Empire, too), and anything else just got filled in with other Western imagery and SF pictures and paperback covers and toys. It's … Continue reading “Star Wars, Communist Chinese Bootleg Comic Book Style”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11,79,372],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","category-media-intellectual-property","category-star-wars-media-movies","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51131,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/15\/the-convergence-bump-for-dc-comics.html","url_meta":{"origin":42255,"position":0},"title":"The Convergence bump for DC Comics","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-May-15 3:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've read more DC Comics issues the past few months than I have the previous year. 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