This is apparently an original unmasked picture of Fett that McQuarie drew up. It looks alot like what the Mandalorian ancestors are described as. Did Karen Traviss plan this?
IF that's a McQuarie drawing (and the style looks different to those pictures of his I've seen), then I can only assume it's his take what Boba might've looked like without the helmet on. How could Karen Traviss have planned it?
IF that's a McQuarie drawing (and the style looks different to those pictures of his I've seen), then I can only assume it's his take what Boba might've looked like without the helmet on. How could Karen Traviss have planned it?
There are some predator-esq overtones to the Taung design. I think it's just what someone liked, and LFL bought into it because of the badass look that sells comics. =)
Interestingly enough, this artists rendition of what Boba Fett looks like under his buy'ce is actually quite similar to the appearance of the male of the Zygerrian race from Star Wars and almost nothing like any of the pictures of Taung I have seen.
The artist that painted that for the TOPPS SW GALAXY series 1 is Dan Brereton. And like Chakaar said, it was completely his imagining of what he might look like.
Dan Brereton created this artwork back in 1993, and this was a time when noone knew what Boba Fett really looked like underneath the helmet. (It was Dan Brereton's guesswork of what Boba Fett may have possibly looked like without his helmet. ) This artwork was created long before the 1st Star Wars prequel or even the 1997 Star Wars "Special Edition" movies. ( No one knew at that time that Boba Fett was a clone of Jango Fett. ) This artwork was also created long before Karen Travis wrote any of the Star Wars books.
Yet it's better than starting a new thread for the same thing and having someone yell "USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION, DUMMY".
And you never know, it might get an interesting conversation rolling again.
I LOVE that artwork by Dan and even contacted him years and years ago about doing some additional artwork of that character's face. I love the idea that this is indeed what Boba Fett looked like... much better than the way it ended up with the whole Jango/Clone story line. Sadly, I have been so out of the loop, I don't even know who that other character is...