Space Warped #1 - 6

French creators Hervé Bourhis and Rudy Spiessert began their long running collaborate together on a comic strip called Le Stéréo Club in 2004.  Many strips later, in 2010 they created a Star Wars parody called Naguere les Etoiles.  Hervé Bourhis, a capable illustrator himself, is the writer and Rudy Spiessert provides the artwork.  This series was published by Delcourt in France as 3 albums starting in 2010 and was imported to the U.S. by BOOM! Studios as a 6-issue mini-series for their KaBOOM! imprint in 2011.  BOOM! Studios uses the title Space Warped for this series.

The setting is medieval Europe and the stories track closely to the original trilogy movies.  Each movie is told in two issues.  The cleverness of the spoof is how characters, ships, and locations are changed to fit the time period of the story which is different than most Star Wars parodies.  C-3PO and R2-D2 are druids named Hal and Ravi.  Chewbacca is a burly woodsman named Boogie.  The Millennium Falcon has been turned into a large old bird named Centenarian Egret.  The Death Star is the Dread Castle and the Empire is the Kingdom.  The use of real world substitutes does not diminish the outlandish situations that arise in the stories.  The humor is witty at times and does a surprisingly good job satiring the movies while also being unique.

The only nitpick I have with these books is minor and has more to do with the U.S. translation than the original work by Bourhis and Spiessert.  These comics are far removed from being space-based tales, so Space Warped is a misnomer.  I understand why the title was chosen as it readily identifies itself as a Star Wars spoof.  But it does a disservice to the true nature of the content of the issues.

The first issues of Space Warped has two covers.  The remaining five issues only have one cover each.  I much prefer the three covers that show the characters at locations versus the covers that just have the characters against a light blue background with stars.

Space Warped #1a - BOOM! Studios, U.S. (June 2011)
U.S. edition of French Naguere les Etoiles

Space Warped #1b - BOOM! Studios, U.S. (June 2011)
U.S. edition of French Naguere les Etoiles

Space Warped #2a - BOOM! Studios, U.S. (July 2011)
U.S. edition of French Naguere les Etoiles

Space Warped #3a - BOOM! Studios, U.S. (September 2011)
U.S. edition of French Naguere les Etoiles

Space Warped #4a - BOOM! Studios, U.S. (October 2011)
U.S. edition of French Naguere les Etoiles

Space Warped #5a - BOOM! Studios, U.S. (November 2011)
U.S. edition of French Naguere les Etoiles

Space Warped #6a - BOOM! Studios, U.S. (December 2011)
U.S. edition of French Naguere les Etoiles

Starting in 2017, Delcourt began publishing Hervé Bourhis and Rudy Spiessert followup work Naguere Les Etoiles: Avant Naguere.  This time the pair parodied the prequel trilogy, but unfortunately, these have not been translated for english readers.