Saren Wallwalker
| Zine | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Saren Wallwalker |
| Publisher: | Asteris Novis Press |
| Editor: | Pat Nolan |
| Author(s): | Kathi Spivey |
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| Illustrator(s): | |
| Date(s): | March 1983 |
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| Size: | digest-sized |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Wars |
| Language: | English |
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Saren Wallwalker is a 112-page Star Wars gen novel by Kathi Spivey. It has the subtitle: "The Observations & Adventures of a Junior Jedi."
The editor thanks Anne Elizabeth Zeek and Devra Langsam for their help and use of a mimeograph machine. Five hundred copies were printed, and then the original mimeo screens were destroyed.
In the zine, Spivey notes that "Saren Wallwalker" began "as a joke that was originally intended to be a cute little cartoon strip, used as filler in Pat Nolan's new Star Wars fanzine, 'Bespin Times'." This zine was ultimately not completed due to lack of submissions. Some of this art may have appeared in the early 1990s zine Imagination.
From the zine: "In the first movie, the three principle characters have different planets of origin. Take the first initial letters of each of these worlds and you have the identity of The Other. It's as plausible as any of the other theories we have heard, until you work it out: CORELLIA + ALDERAAN + TATOOINE = CAT. Saren, therefore is the Other."
Descriptions
From a publisher's ad:
A unique zine, presenting a unique look at the SW universe. Saren Wallwalker, disguised as a Terran cat, exposes the truth behind the SW saga. Want to know George Lucas' function in the Alliance? Curious as to 'The Other' is? Interested in 'Life, the Universe, and Everything'? Read this zine... A fully cat-tooned story. [1]
From Star Wars Zine Bibliography:
Cartoons of Saren Wallwalkar who insists he's a sentient alien being of felinoid structure and an agent for the Rebel Alliance.
From the zine:
What IS this zine? Well, some would call it a satire, or perhaps the ultimate "Mary Sue". (For the uninitiated, a Mary Sue is a fan story where the writer appears as the main character, in a fiction form. Endowed with every physical grace aptitude and near genius intellect, this person is perfect in every way. He or she then proceeds to save the galaxy single-handedly.
Saren is, in fact, a real feline. She actually lives with the editor of this zine and other fanzines, and has an Imp [2] in residence who is an unemployed artist.
[much snipped about Saren and her likes and dislikes, especially her taste in toys]
She knocks die-cast TIE-Fighters around, and chews on Vader dolls, BUT HAS NEVER HARMED A SINGLE REBEL ITEM, ALTHOUGH THEY ARE ALL KEPT IN THE SAME PLACES. Finally, between the end of the NPR Radio dramatization of Star Wars in 1981, and January 1982, when filming began for "Return of the Jedi", she knocked down every Luke Skywalker picture she could reach. Shen filming began for Episode Six, she immediately stopped this practice. At no time did she ever touch a Mark Hamill photograph, or tamper with any of the other pictures on my walls."
Is she merely a cat we are reading too much into, or is she, in fact, our extraterrestrial-in-residence? I don not know, and I try not to think about it too seriously. Obviously, Saren thinks she is more than a cat. Then again, all cats do. You can draw your own conclusions. , Meanwhile, I hope you will enjoy this little cartoon 'zine.
Inside Sample
Note: the samples before are from a photocopy of the original fanwork.
References
- ^ from Universal Translator #18
- ^ "Imp" refers here to a fan who is a fan of the "Imperials" in Star Wars."