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Improbable Previews: Lightsaber Poochie Is a Juggalo Jedi In Darth Maul #1

Published Sat, 17 Dec 2016 19:00:21 -0600

Last updated Sun, 18 Dec 2016 10:36:02 -0600

Every so often, comic book publishers send out previews of upcoming comics without any of the lettering finished. The result, while pretty to look at, leaves readers wondering just what the hell is going on in those pages. Well, wonder no more.

Here at Bleeding Cool, we have combined decades of experience in reading comic books, so we can tell what's happening, even without the words. Using that knowledge, we've lettered these previews ourselves, using our best guess at what the dialog should actually be. We can't guarantee 100% accuracy- in fact, our accuracy may be much lower than that – but we can guarantee that it's better than looking at a bunch of unfinished pages.

In this issue of Improbable Previews, we've got the art for Darth Maul #1 by Cullen Bunn and Luke Ross, pilfered from an EXXXCLUSIVE interview on CBR. Despite appearing only briefly in The Phantom Menace, Darth Maul has become a fan favorite due to his color scheme and double bladed lightsaber, and also because he was comparatively far more interesting than all those pod racing scenes. We did our best to figure out what's going on in this early artwork. Doubly confusing, the comic is supposed to be drawn by Luke Ross, but CBR credits the preview art to Mark Brooks. It's definitely by one of those two guys though!