Cartoonist Illustrates Star Wars Prequels with Actual Emotional Depth

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Eric Lund
Dec 1, 2019 2:00 PM EST

While it's pretty generally agreed the Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace has some pretty big problems, and doesn't communicate its story well, award winning cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks made a really interesting version of Anakin's story. While it might not completely redeem the "ruined childhoods" of people who didn't like the prequels, it does something to fix the movies. For another star wars thing, here's a guy who set the record straight on a common misreading of Luke Skywalker.

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    Text - Faith Erin Hicks Follow @FaithErinHicks I watched The Phantom Menace the other day & while it's a mess, Anakin's story is so heartbreakingly tragic. I wrote & illustrated a little story inspired by him, the slave boy from Tatooine. 9:35 AM 26 Nov 2019
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    Cartoon - Faith Erin Hicks Follow FaithErinHicks Imagine you are a slave boy on Tatooine. You & your mother are sold to a junk trader when you were 3 years old & you live without freedom, without personhood. You & your mother together, against the world.
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    Text - Faith Erin Hicks Follow @FaithErinHicks A Jedi Knight comes to Tatooine. The Jedi are the "Guardians of Peace and Justice" but he is not here to free slaves. There is no justice on Tatooine, but the Jedi Knight doesn't seem to care about that.
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    Cartoon - Faith Erin Hicks Follow @FaithErinHicks The Jedi decides to take you away from Tatooine. Not because you are a slave boy & he recognizes that injustice, but because you are special. You are a Chosen One from some prophecy you've never heard of. You will become a Jedi.
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    Cartoon - Faith Erin Hicks Follow @FaithErinHicks You have to leave your mother, who the Jedi will not free. The one person in the world who you love, you must leave her in slavery, while you become a Jedi, a Guardian of Peace and Justice.
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    Cartoon - Faith Erin Hicks Follow FaithErinHicks You are told by privileged people in robes you will not become a Jedi, you are not fit. You are a child, and you miss your mother. The Jedi tell you to fear losing her is to risk falling to the Dark Side. But what is the Light without your mother?
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    Cartoon - Faith Erin Hicks Follow @FaithErinHicks At the end of the story there is a party & you watch a Queen gives a Gungan a shiny ball. You are a Padawan, you will become a Jedi someday. But do the Jedi take you back to Tattoine, to rescue your mother? They do not.
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    Cartoon - Faith Erin Hicks Follow @FaithErinHicks There is no justice for your mother, still a slave, trapped galaxies apart from you. Years pass & the Jedi, Guardians of Peace & Justice, do not free her. You are the Chosen One, but you have no agency, no power. You are merely a tool to be used to bring balance to the Force.
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    Text - Faith Erin Hicks Follow @FaithErinHicks The Dark Side beckons. 9:41 AM - 26 Nov 2019
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