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

Ralph McQuarrie

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.

Moebius

Artist: Noriyoshi Ohrai