A Book of Boba Fett fan comic is the Star Wars show at its best

Disney Plus’ Star Wars spinoff series Boba Fett: The Book of Boba FettSeason 2 has ended, but teases are left for the next season MandalorianThere was a lot of grumbling from fans and a wide consensus that Grogu/Baby Yoda still looks pretty adorable. It’s also prompted something fun from a fan: Eisner-winning Nimona Autor and She-Ra the Princesses to PowerND Stevenson, creator and showrunner of the comic has been creating a fan-comic called This Place was HomeFollow us on Twitter.

Stevenson created the comic February 4, tweeting this description:

It was absurd. I was in a fugue state, and managed to draw 75 pages. of a fancomic about Boba Fett’s childhood. Comics are my passion. I love Star Wars. I will be posting it in installments here, starting…TODAY!!

Some aspects of it are very loosely related to Star Wars lore. It is also meticulously researched. The event takes place in a time period that is only briefly mentioned by the canon. All swear. You will enjoy the book, no matter if you are Star Wars or not!

This Place was HomeOpening scene from Book of Boba FettAs Fennec Shand, the bounty hunter, and Fennec Shand his tentative ally sit by a campfire at night in Tatooine’s desert world. 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.

Stevenson’s fans will find a lot of similarities between This Place was HomeCitations from their comics, which include Lumberjanes the comics that are autobiographical in the book The fire never goes out. Young Boba is shouty and hyper energetic, reminiscent of the title character. NimonaZam also plays scare-tricks with shapeshifters on Nimona just as Nimona does for other people. But the two characters also bond easily and naturally in ways familiar from Stevenson’s other work.

Their conversation on how Zam was originally born with only one face but has since developed a new one through hard work strongly recalls Stevenson’s comic Substack. I’m Fine I’m Fine Just Understand. Stevenson spoke to Polygon in October 2021 about launching that Substack, charting their personal journey and offering “some kind of reassurance from the future that there is a path out of those dark places.”

This Place was Home It seems that they are more inclined to go into the dark. The latest flashback installment has young Boba — a mod-free clone of Jango, the DNA source for all the original clone troopers of the Clone Wars — meeting a young standard clone, and realizing possibly for the first time that while those clones are kids like him, they’re also subject to strict rules and testing, and can be cavalierly destroyed if they aren’t up to their designers’ expectations. And given how Zam Wesell’s story ended in Attack of the Clones, Boba’s childhood big-sis story isn’t likely to wrap on a cheery note either.

The comic is still enjoyable, and the humor has been light-hearted. Darth Vader & SonThis is how I see it. It’s a more personable take on Boba Fett than the TV series offered, and a surprisingly plausible one, given how few details the films and shows have filled in about his early life, growing up on Camino.

Read part 1 of This Place Was Home on Twitter
Part 2 starts here
Part 3, in a separate thread