Slave 1, a modified Firespray 31-Class patrol ship was once owned by the infamous bounty hunter Jango Fett, who stole the ship from the Oovo IV prison moon. After Jango Fett’s death at the Battle of Geonosis the ship was passed along to his clone son, Boba Fett. Sadly the dashing blue and yellow paint job didn’t stay for long.
Jeremy Bulloch is an absolutely, absolutely delightful gentleman.
Absolutely.
His first involvement with Doctor Who was in the brilliant William Hartnell story The Space Museum, fighting against the Moroks as the rebel Tor; he also has the distinction - and it is an impressive distinction indeed - of having shot and killed the Sontaran Linx in The Time Warrior, in his role as Hal The Archer.
(And he was Boba Fett, to any Starwarsians out there.)
And, as a gentleman with such an impressive acting CV, we ended up discussing at some length how much it really matters in the creative disciplines that you do it because you have a genuine passion and love for the craft, or it’s not worth putting up with. And you can read about the kinds of things he’s put up with his website, where you can also find his cheeky, charming book.
(My brother, a classicist who lives with his wife and son back in Canada, is a Starwarsian. I’m pretty confident that he’s never been more jealous of my art before.)
And as always, if you’ve been involved in the Doctor Who universe, or know someone who has, do get in contact!
Boba Fett’s reputation as the best bounty hunter in the galaxy comes from him pulling off an insane number of jobs throughout his life, some of which were even deemed impossible for a lone hunter to pull off
funnily enough, he doesn’t actually remember completing all of the ones people attribute to him, but after seeing the footage and biometric proof, he assumes that he’s been blacking out and entering some sort of exhaustion fugue state, or maybe he’s just had a few too many concussions
it’s not until he tries to claim a puck from the guild and is told that he’s already working that job that he starts to figure out that something more is going on, and decides to investigate who it is that’s been working this job
as it turns out, there’s actually like ten different escaped clones pulling bounties under his name, considering they all share the same DNA and face, who’ve put together a few fake versions of his father’s armor
many of them even work in teams, trading off who gets to ‘play Boba’ to the guild or clients
(they’ve also been using their shared DNA to access his space netflix account, which explains why the recommendation algorithm never seems to figure out what he likes and keeps telling him that he’s already watched shows he finds)
(strangely, he realizes that they haven’t touched any of his bank accounts, despite the fact that they could certainly have gotten through their security measures the same way)
after discovering this, he considers confronting them, killing them, even just turning them in to the guild
but then he’d lose some of his reputation if it comes out that impersonators can mimic him well enough to get the job done just as well as he could
so he just sends them all a message telling them to not fuck this up and continues with this life
Din goes looking for Boba at one point and runs into almost 10 different “Bobas” and its hilarious because only Actual Boba has ever met Din and these Fake Bobas just have this random Mando coming up to them and talking about his kid and just generally being like “um….. wtf?”
Chapter Summary: In which Trouve gets an invitation which brings back memories
Story Summary: Young Boba Fett has been granted early parole. However, he’s tossed out into the world with no money, home, or prospects. A chance encounter with two young teens in a diner solves at least one of these problems. What starts out as a temporary roof over his head slowly grows into a home and family he builds for himself, and leads him down a path completely different from the one laid out for him.
some Boba Jango luv bc after Book of Boba and rereading some of the comics I am a puddle of my own tears.
I wanted to make a little parallel of this new angle of boba holding Jango’s helmet. in one of the comics Jango comes home to Boba and tiny Boba was SO HAPPY TO SEE HIS DAD? SO I JUST WANTED TO???? DRAW THEM BOTH TOGETHER AND HAPPY
