{"id":35062,"date":"2021-08-22T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=35062"},"modified":"2021-08-21T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T20:11:04","slug":"star-wars-jaxxon-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/star-wars-jaxxon-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: Jaxxon addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today's review of the Black Series<\/i> Jaxxon<\/a> talked about how unsettling and off-model the figure's face was.<\/p>\n

Here's how Jaxxon appeared in his initial story arc:<\/p>\n

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Here's how he looked in the comic that ostensibly inspired the figure:<\/p>\n

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The toy's ghastly face, meanwhile, seems to be based on this monstrosity:<\/p>\n

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That's from the cover of 2001's Star Wars Gamer<\/i> #4, which featured an RPG<\/abbr> written by Pablo Hidalgo titled \"The Starhoppers of Aduba-3.\" The adventure retold the events of the comic story and was the first time Jaxxon had been mentioned since 1978.<\/p>\n

Allegedly Jaxxon stopped being used in the comics because George Lucas personally despised him; but Pablo Hidalgo is clearly a fan, and now that he's on the Lucasfilm Story Group, Jaxxon gets (a little) more respect. He's cameoed on the Forces of Destiny<\/i> cartoon, appeared on a bunch of Marvel variant covers, and even got referenced in Clone Wars<\/i> Season 5's \"A Sunny Day in the Void.\" As a skeleton. Still, he's one of only five characters to have so far been re-canonized from the old Expanded Universe to the new Disney continuity, and that's pretty special.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>