ILM artist Nilo Rodis-Jamero became co-costume designer on Return of the Jedi because director Richard Marquand liked the costumes he made up in his storyboards and lobbied for him to get the job.

@drewmcweeny.com Reading this 2004 roundtable made me nostalgic but this part made me go "Huh?" Ben Burtt did work on Episode III and Doug Chiang only left because Zemeckis hired him to design Polar Express. He later worked on the sequels, Rogue One, Solo and a bunch of Disney Star Wars shows.

@drewmcweeny.com Just reread this AICN Star Wars round table you and your friends did from 2003. Your prediction that kids who grew up with the prequels would defend it 20 years later was correct. This one however...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

@kurtbusiek.bsky.social There's a discussion on X about how shitty civilians in the Marvel Universe are, not just to mutants but people like the Silver Surfer and examples in JLA/Avengers. I always thought it was brilliant how you pointed out this key difference in the two universes.