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Earlier this 12 months, io9 introduced you the information that Princess and the Scoundrel author Beth Revis was teaming up with artist Sophie Li for a model new Star Wars image guide impressed by the early occasions of the novel, setting the stage for Han Solo and Leia Organa’s wedding ceremony on Endor. Now, we may give you a glance inside—and it’s completely stunning.
Somebody Who Loves You is due out this December, and extrapolates on the moments early in Princess and the Scoundrel as Han and Leia put together for his or her intimate wedding ceremony within the wake of the Empire’s defeat in Return of the Jedi. Taking these quiet moments, Li illustrates a heat, touching dialogue between Han and Leia as they put together to share their lives with one another and so they ponder what love means to them in all its varieties—giving us an exquisite, painterly celebration of one in every of Star Wars’ best {couples}.
“However on this guide, I used to be in a position to pull it again in. Sure, there are woklings operating round, inflicting chaos. Nevertheless it’s so clear—Han and Leia have eyes just for one another. In each picture, it doesn’t matter what’s occurring, their love is on the middle,” Revis informed io9 over e-mail beforehand when discussing the intimate scope of Somebody Who Loves You, one thing keenly felt in Li’s paintings. “We’re again in that personal second, that non-public time, the place there’s nothing extra necessary than their love. It’s just some sentences in The Princess and the Scoundrel. However that idea and emotion is the entire guide of Somebody Who Loves You. Turning a short, barely there line into a complete story, basking in it—it actually jogs my memory of how huge love might be.”
Star Wars: Somebody Who Loves You is about to launch December 3, 2024—however earlier than that, click on by means of to see an unique preview from contained in the guide!
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