- "Fly for the EMPIRE!"
- ―The slogan of the first recruitment poster
"Imperial Recruitment" is a two-page comic featured in Dark Horse Comics' trade paperback, Star Wars: Visionaries, released April 2, 2005. Drawn and penciled by the artist Feng Zhu, Imperial Recruitment is made up of a pair of recruitment posters for the Imperial Military forces of the Galactic Empire, featuring female Humans.
Publisher's summary
"So why should you join the Empire? These recruitment posters offer some provocative incentives."[1]
Contents
A pair of recruitment posters portray Human women with patriotic slogans, urging sentient beings to enlist in the armed forces of the Galactic Empire. The first poster shows a blond Human female in a formfitting flight suit, advertising for beings to join the Imperial Navy's TIE starfighter pilot corps. The second poster is of a white-haired woman wearing skin-exposing clothes and holding a wild rancor pygmy on a leash, with the slogan claiming that if one joins the Imperial army, they will encounter strange and exotic creatures.
Development
- "A pair of revealing examples of Imperial propaganda."
- ―A summary of the collection in Star Wars Insider
Imperial Recruitment is a short, two-page comic that appeared as the eighth story in the trade paperback anthology Star Wars: Visionaries, published by Dark Horse Comics on April 2, 2005. Imperial Recruitment was drawn and penciled by the artist Feng Zhu, who also worked for Lucasfilm, drawing concept art for Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. Feng Zhu also drew six more recruitment posters with this similar style and posted them on his website, but were not put into Star Wars: Visionaries.[4]
Continuity
The two posters that appeared in Imperial Recruitment were later said to be part of Star Wars canon by Leland Chee, the keeper of the Holocron continuity database, when he was questioned on the timeline of the stories in Visionaries.[5] The six additional images drawn by Zhu but not released in Visionaries are, however, not considered canon because they were never published in any official Star Wars work.[6]
Media
Collected in
- Star Wars: Visionaries
- Star Wars Omnibus: Wild Space Volume 2
- Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Empire Vol. 8
Appearances
| Characters | Organisms | Droid models | Events | Locations |
| Organizations and titles | Sentient species | Vehicles and vessels | Weapons and technology | Miscellanea |
Organisms
Organizations and titles
Sentient species
Miscellanea
Sources
Inside Star Wars: Visionaries on StarWars.com (original site is defunct)- "Drawn by the Force" — Star Wars Insider 82
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Inside Star Wars: Visionaries on StarWars.com (original site is defunct)
- ↑ "Imperial Recruitment" — Star Wars: Visionaries
- ↑ "Drawn by the Force" — Star Wars Insider 82
- ↑ Feng Zhu Design by Zhu, Feng on www.fengzhudesign.com (backup link archived on June 2, 2007)
- ↑ Event Timeline and Character Age Discussion on the StarWars.com Message Boards (March 29, 2005) (original site is defunct)
- ↑ Holocron continuity database questions on the StarWars.com Message Boards (December 7, 2005) (original site is defunct)
External links
- Feng Zhu Design on www.fengzhudesign.com (backup link archived on June 2, 2007)