Wampa Trap #2
Today’s strip was inspired by Neil Baker, with our own twist. 😉 By now several of our fans should have received Blue Milk Special pinups in the mail as part of our thank you’s as well as competition prizes.
I also want to take a quick moment to congratulate Neil Baker and James Semple for their “Turning to the Dork Side” fan film which has been accepted as a finalist in the Star Wars Fan Film Challenge. You can watch Neil’s Turning to the Dork Side movie here.
Last years winner was the superb 3D animated short film, The Han Solo Adventures produced by students of Dave School, a digital animation and visual effects school in Orlando, Florida. I’m not sure how the competition works, but please give Neil your support.
Awesome drawings, I especially like Leia choking Delcan Jaba!
Congrats to Neil, when you are rich and famous I won’t be too offended when you have security throw me off your lawn!
As always the strip ROCKS!!!
Aw, the forciness is not strong with 3PO!
lolz
Thanks guys – I really appreciate the support. I’ll be sure to let you know how and when to vote. I’ll also give you the backstory one day of how I got Jeremy Bulloch on it 😉
The strip is awesome – I never realized how much influence we had over your decisions. Next week, I think Leia puts on a prototype slave girl outfit to prove to Han she’s not playing hard to get and … oh, what’s the use…
Leanne, that Shaak Ti rocks – they are all smashing sketches, but that’s a particularly fine looking Togruta you’ve got there.
Wow! Another film project? Fantastic. I’m not surprised Jeremy helped you out – he’s a lovely bloke.
Or maybe it’s too strong and he can’t handle it 😛
LOL! This strip has got to be one of the best I’ve seen! It’s like there’s a chance 3PO can pull it off, then… nope! Leanne, great job on the pinups! I love the Jawa and Leia strangling Jabba. Bravo! I may have to have you drawn one up for me at the next NYC con! So soon, yet so far away…
Thanks, Rick. We won’t be at NYC Comic Con this year, unfortunately. It was just too expensive for us. We will definitely be at Baltimore and we are planning to be at the Virginia Comic Con later this year too.
I love this week’s strip! I wonder what the Wampas were thinking as 3PO dismembered himself! And the pinups are awesome! Shaak Ti is PERFECT!!! Leanne I love your art style! YOU ROCK! Now you have to hold some more contests so I can try to win some more pin-ups! I would love to see Dodonna and Akbar doing Keg stands!
LOL. Keg stands indeed.
I’m gonna have a go of Force Unleashed with the C-3PO skin on now
Looking at the drawing of Smokin’ Leia choking Jabba, and hoping her foot isn’t going where it looks like it’s going… :O
I may be slightly behind…. but I LOVE Biggs swingin’ from the AT-AT on the banner! That alone would have Luke looking back with a WTF?!?!
Leanne — awesome pin-ups!
Great sketches; the recipients must be SO pleased (I’ll ask one of them personally)! And the idea of 3PO with a light saber? Ummm, yeah, words fail me. I don’t know if the imagery is awesome, or just plain awkward. Either way, love it. You think R2 was being sarcastic in his faith in 3PO?
Artoo definitely set Threepio up. 😉
I saw Declan Mulholland in a Tom Baker Dr Who the other day, the Androids of Tara, and called out, “Look it’s Jabba!”
He’s also in The Sea Devils in the first couple of episodes! 🙂
Haven’t got that one in my collection yet.
It was the first time I’ve seen / recognised him in anything else.
Be wary of the Sea Devils. Watched as a stand alone it can be very jarring. It’s really best to watch the Pertwee era in blocks or his entire run, because that way you get pulled into that timeframe and style of that era. Primarily the CSO / bluescreen and the music which often, for the mainstream audience, let the programs down. I’m incredibly tolerant of wobbly sets, tacky monsters and model work, and occasionally bad music, but music in The Sea Devils is appalling even to me. At times the music sounds more like special effects and you can’t tell whether laser guns are being fired in a peaceful non-action scene or whether it’s just poor experimental electronic. However, the pain can be reduced if you’ve already been eased in softly to the era’s often distracting music, because you grow accustomed to it and start to forget about. But if you watch the Sea Devils as a stand alone story, out of sequence and out of context of that era’s dated style, you might find it hard to enjoy what is one of the better outings of the Third Doctor. I know that’s longwinded, but I’m something of a classic Who aficionado for 25 years now so anytime you want any input on the series or a particular story, I’ll have some essay or two to share.
Not a big fan of Jon Pertwee Doctor although I’ve watch quite a few of his on telly. I’ve replaced my Dr Who videos with DVDs and slowly collecting more, concentrating mainly on Tom Baker at first as he is my favourite Dr Who.
I can understand where you’re coming from as I used to think that way too. I used to think he was too serious and crotchety. I saw others make those comments recently and I realized that was how I used to view him. But these days, most people watch individual serials of Doctor Who rather than a complete season, or an entire Doctor’s era. If more people actually watched the full run they would get a much better picture of an era and also find the characters grow on you much more than you’d think. I found Pertwee to be incredibly warm and humorous and the instances of his grouchiness far less frequent than I had remembered. It’s also an era that works better as a whole than segmentalized by random viewing as there is a relationship between the Doctor and the others which is hard to see otherwise. I’m not talking about just the “UNIT family” feel, which is evident from any individual episode, but a larger context which makes his regeneration at the end very poignant.
Leanne and I have been re-watching the entire series (including reconstructions of the missing episodes) from An Unearthly Child up to The Ark in Space episode 4 over the past 10 months. We’ve been watching roughly 2 episodes per night. Its quite amazing how our opinions have changed as a result. It turns out, for us, that Patrick Troughton’s Doctor is actually a lot less interesting when you watch his entire run in order. By the time the portrayal finds its feet, it really doesn’t have the legs to keep the interest in him for 2 additional years of very long seasons. His comical cowardice eventually starts to get really old and a weak final season made us welcome the change to Pertwee. That’s not something we expected. I don’t think many fans have undertaken the task of watching the series in such a completist and chronological fashion, but it is very enlightening particularly when accompanied by the extensive behind the scenes details for every story at http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/tv.html
The Sea Devils were one of the primary baddies that scared me and my generation poopless back in the day. I watched it again last year with another aficionado friend of mine, and perhaps ruined my childhood memories. Hey, at last I know how you prequel haters feel – 😉
That said, it’s a fun episode if only to see The Master watching The Clangers, or to see the elaborate somersaulting death throes of the Sea Devils.
What I love is Luke only comments on his lightsaber. The sight of 3PO in a complete shambles doesn’t register. X D
C-3PO with a lightsaber. Now that is funny!
The smoking jawa pic is awesome up close. Already have it framed! The latest incentive strip/series is fantastic…..No one wants Jar Jar…..I know I would disappointed in my Forci-ness Meal if I got him.
Happy Father’s Day Darth Vader (and all other fathers out there).
Moi Moi sweet Shaak Ti =(^.^)= I don’t know what but I’m weak for her…
The Declan Jabba being choked by Leia is brilliant. Any chance of a higher res image???
No. This was done as a gift for a competition winner. To make it available for mass dissemination would detract from this. But we are so glad people like it!
These are epic! You’re style is so Awesome!!!
Thanks so much! We have a lot of fun with it! 🙂
I’ve been on this site browsing comics for hours, and I was absolutely thrilled to see a drawing of Shaak Ti. Despite her tiny amount of appearances, I adore that Jedi. It’s fantastic to see her drawn this way, and I just had to comment on it.
Keep up the good work!