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COMICS: ROGUE ONE

04 03 The mission will test all
of Cassian’s abilities as
a spy to the limits.
04 Nothing is as it seems when
it comes to the Empire—as
Cassian soon discovers.

simple lines, and then took care
of his ‘acting’ with more detailed
expressions. In other words, I’ve
tried to draw Cassian Andor the
character and not Diego Luna.

How about K-2SO?
DS: I loved K-2SO from the minute

I first met him in the screenplay.
He changes a lot in our story—
from no-nonsense Imperial
enforcement droid to amnesiac,
through would-be killer to strange
ally. His charm, of course, is that
he always says exactly what’s on
his mind. In this story, you’ll see
how that happens. In a lot of
ways, a character like K-2SO is the
perfect foil for a spy like Cassian—
who relies on subterfuge, half-
truths, and bold-faced lies. What
do you do when your partner has
no fi lter?
FB: There’s a Star Wars chemistry
between these two. They’re like
Han and Chewbacca, Luke and
R2-D2, or R2-D2 and C-3PO,
Who is Cassian Andor to you? There’s a moral grayness to him. but at the same time they are
DS: Cassian is a spy, plain and We don’t know exactly what he’s different and genuine. K-S2O is
simple. He lives by his wits, and capable of doing to achieve an some kind of lovely grump. He
when necessary, his blaster. But objective. He’s also a soldier and looks very serious with robotic,
he’s not a dashing James Bond- a rebel, so there’s a grade of polite stiffness, but it hides a sharp
type. He is single-mindedly focused political idealism in his view of sarcasm and a fine sense of humor.

on scraping out Empire intel in any what is honorable and what is not. And he has a fantastic design that
way he can. And sometimes that Much of Cassian comes across in works well in comics!
means taking risks, much to the the way Diego Luna portrays him—
annoyance of rebel command. the deep humanity of his look that Do you foresee the posibility
To Cassian, the time it takes to makes us have faith, despite the of any future comic adventures
sit and debate the merits of a ambiguity of his actions, that he for Cassian and K-2SO?
mission can be the time it takes for is one of the good guys. DS: I think there’s plenty of room
the window into that mission to It was a great challenge to draw for more adventures with the two
have closed. Luckily, he is able to him. I avoided rendering realistic of them—in comics, and maybe
maintain a grim sense of humor likenesses of him by tracing or even in novel form. Can you
about his situation. copying photos, because in the imagine a two-hander novel
end, when you’re hyper-realistic, with alternating chapters from

FB: Cassian could have the classic the figure can look cold and Cassian’s and then K-2SO’s point-
antihero look like Han Solo, but inexpressive. So I tried to draw him of-view? It would be part action-
his appearance is very different. as a comic book character with epic, part confessional!

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