Roger Dean, Blue Demon, 1972Used In 1974 By The Band Gravy Train For Their Album Staircase To The Day.

Roger Dean, ‘Blue Demon’, 1972 ”Used in 1974 by the band Gravy Train for their album ’Staircase to the day’. I painted this because I loved the colours of the background it was that simple. An interesting band I always thought that they should have done better. Strangely enough the most copied part of the album cover was the logo that I made for “Staircase to the Day” with the steps floating up into the sky.” Source

Anyone else kinda love the fact that when Han Solo bragged to Obi-wan that he did the Kessel run in 12 parsecs, and while Obi-wan was like “yeah, right”, literally everyone else was utterly convinced.

Like, how good of a liar do you have to be, that when you tell a bald-faced lie, it eventually gets written into your actual, canonical backstory, thus making it true retroactively?

And thus everyone scrambled for a little while trying to figure out how he’d done it, how he’d done this run in a measure of distance, not time. And the actual explanation is that he was just lying when he said it?

It’s just wonderful.

Ralph McQuarrie

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack - illustration by Haruhiko Mikimoto (‘Cellu Works’, 1991)

Mamoru Miyano has been cast as Mario for the Japanese dub in the upcoming Mario Movie, set for release in April.

Ore Ga Mario Da.