{"id":1923,"date":"2004-04-15T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2004-04-15T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-15T06:00:00","slug":"han-shoots-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/04\/15\/02\/00\/han-shoots-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Han Shoots First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So with the news that George Lucas is determined to release only the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076759\/alternateversions\">bastardized<\/a> goody-goody <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Wars_Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope\">&#8220;Special Edition&#8221; <i>Star Wars<\/i><\/a> on DVD, it&#8217;s important to say it again: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;q=%22han+shoots+first%22\">Han Shoots First<\/a>. I downloaded the complete run of the Marvel Comics Star Wars comic from BitTorrent. You can download the comics *and* the original <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_wars\">Star Wars<\/a><\/em> movie trilogy digitized from Laserdisc at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suprnova.org\/\">Suprnova.org<\/a>. This is from Issue #2, August 1977, inks by the great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=lang_en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;safe=off&#038;q=%22Howard+Chaykin%22\">Howard Chaykin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;q=%22han+shoots+first%22\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meehawl.com\/Asset\/HanShootsFirst.jpg\" alt=\"HAN SHOOTS FIRST!!!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadly though it appears as if Lucas&#8217;s nefarious plan has succeeded. Lisa is only a few years younger than me yet never having seen the original version of the movie her recollection is that Solo shoots in self-defence after being shot at by Greedo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So with the news that George Lucas is determined to release only the bastardized goody-goody &#8220;Special Edition&#8221; Star Wars on DVD, it&#8217;s important to say it again: Han Shoots First. I downloaded the complete&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}