The staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House continue their art project in which they render scenes from various books in shrinky dink form. One member of the staff is a lifelong fan of works from the popular science fiction and fantasy genres. He has suggested a direction for a set of shrinky dink mobiles that pay homage to four masters of the forms.
On this page, we present a mobile of a character from the Star Wars universe of George Lucas. Chelli Lona Aphra, more commonly known as Doctor Aphra, was a human female archaeologist active during the reign of Emperor Palpatine. Her character contains elements of lawlessness in the mold of Han Solo, himself a smuggler, and Indiana Jones, as she seeks to sell her archeological finds of dubious provenance to the highest bidder. Her moral compass is governed alternately by opportunistic impulses and regret.
Doctor Aphra's first appearance is in issue three of the comic book, Darth Vader published by Marvel on March 25, 2015. She proved a popular character and continued to appear in that series through its final twenty-fifth issue. Since then she has had two series published under Doctor Aphra, the first running forty issues from 2016 through 2019 and the second running another forty issues from 2020 through January, 2024.
