ND Stevenson’s cute Book of Boba Fett fan comic is the best thing to come out of the Star Wars show

polygon.com:

Disney Plus’ Star Wars spinoff series The Book of Boba Fett has wrapped, leaving behind teases for season 3 of The Mandalorian, a fair bit of fan griping, and fairly widespread agreement that Grogu/Baby Yoda is still pretty cute. It’s also prompted something fun from a fan: Eisner-winning Nimona author and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power creator and showrunner ND Stevenson has been threading a fan comic called This Place Was Home on Twitter.

Stevenson introduced the comic on Feb. 4, tweeting this description:

I have done something absurd. I went into a fugue state and drew 75 pages (and counting?!) of a fancomic about Boba Fett’s childhood. I love comics. I love Star Wars. I will be posting it in installments here, starting…TODAY!!

In some ways it is extremely loose with Star Wars lore. In other ways it is exhaustively researched. It takes place during a period of time only hinted at by the canon. Everyone swears. Hopefully you will have fun reading it whether or not you are a Star Wars fan!

This Place Was Home opens with a scene taken from Book of Boba Fett, as the bounty hunter and his tentative ally Fennec Shand sit together by a fire at night on the little-loved desert world of Tatooine. In Stevenson’s version, though, Shand proposes a drinking game that leads to Boba telling stories from childhood, about his father Jango and his “friend? coworker? partner? I was never sure…” Zam Wesell, the shape-changing Clawdite bounty hunter Jango sent to assassinate Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. Over the course of several installments, Stevenson has been telling little stories about Boba’s childhood relationship with Zam, who he clearly adopted as a kind of big sister or even mother figure.

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