Splinter of the Mind’s Eye – Part 30
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Did I forget to mention we’re updating daily for the next two weeks? It’s what we call “power BMSing”. Every so often we jump on a special mushroom and power up, allowing us to achieve twice as much while at the same time baking great pizza and running a more efficient plumbing business.
Meanwhile, in the world of Star Wars, we have a parody going on. Splinter of the Mind’s Eye to be exact. Let’s see, today’s strip is a couple of pages into chapter 11. Chapter 10 had an odd cliffhanger. Foster surpassed himself with this page turner…
Halla muttered something at the chief, who replied readily. “This isn’t exactly a request, Luke. If we were to turn down the invitation we’d apparently insult not only their hospitality but Canu’s as well. We have our choice, of course. If we insist on refusing, all we have to do is pick a champion to fight one of theirs and–”
Luke interrupted with, “It’s just occurred to me how hungry I am…”
That’s right, the chapter ends here! Luke is obligingly hungry, politely avoiding further problems with the Coway tribe. Don’t miss what happens next!
The weird thing is, if Foster had just kept going for another page or two he could have ended this chapter on the far more riveting revelation that Darth Vader is closing in on their position. Now, given the generally ambling and bumbling plot so far, one would thing this would be the perfect place to break and in doing so hook the reader to come back for more. But I guess, if you’ve made it this far into the book, you’re probably already committed right to the end. Not much further to go. In fact, all the best stuff… oops… what I meant to say is, the only good stuff is at the end anyway. That is, unless you like reading 10 chapters of Luke and Leia wandering around. ;=
Another thing I want to comment on is why the hell does Halla do all the translating for the Coway tribe? Why does Foster allow Halla to tread on C3PO’s toes? I mean what else has C3PO got left to do in this story other than be a gold plated bitch? It’s just a waste, I think.
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So I decided to see who owned the 8008 TKID of the legion and surprisingly it’s a member of my own garrison with a “classified” record. They’re actually DZ8008, so I’m gonna have to do some digging to see if I can find out who it is.
Pity it’s taken! I wonder if its owner is anything like our TK8008?
DZ means they are an alien like a Jawa Or Tusken for example. I am DZ 2646 with the 501st.
So I found out the person’s name, but since their status is classified I can’t give it out publicly. He is the owner of the 8008 number though, so unless he comes out of retirement and builds a TK there won’t be one =(
Can you have any letters after TK? I could retroactively change TK8008 to TK800B if that would help.
We can’t, but you can do what ever you like =P I like it the way it is though. =)
Bracing for epic.
It will be as epic as BMS is prepared to be given the confines of the medium and our general apathy. ;= Brace yourself for Vader and TK8008!
“Brace yourself for Vader and TK8008”, Im telling you Rod go to George with this as a crime fighting TV show and you will be rich.
Like I said, epic.
I’ve been reading the book and caught up to BMS last night. After yesterday’s strip I was dissappointed to find out that there is no flying stormtrooper in the book. The way it’s gone so far, I wouldn’t have been all that surprised. Anyway, great strip, keep it coming!
LOL. Yes, and no invisible Mimbans. But they are boring enough that they might as well be.
The nose, knows!!!!
I still have no real idea what the plot of this books is, but I’m looking forward to a fight with Vader.
There IS a plot. It’s just really tiny. It would just get in the way of the wandering.
Presumably, if Threepio spoke Coway, that would be six million and one forms of language for him which, quite frankly, is a bit excessive.
Is Vader drinking fair trade coffee (fair trade by the Empire’s standards)?
At the very least, it should be Mustafar Roast.
Nice! LOL
Oh, my God…
I just realized the Modal Nodes look an awful lot like Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters fame. X D
Yeah, I thought about that while working on them. Perhaps I need to blend the gill color into the skin color a bit more closely to dispell that “myth”.
I dunno….there could be a handy gag built in there for you. Run with it!
Norah the cat looks like my avatar (my cat Henry)!
“Stow it, wrinkles” I’m thinking Luke should not be expecting any Life Day cards from Halla any time soon.
Reference the Comic picture above, I think it looks more like Thundar the Barbarian and Ukla the Mock fighting storm troopers that luke and the Yuzzem.
LOL. I do like Chris Sprouse’s style, even if sometimes the body to head size ratio is the reverse of a super-deformed manga Chibi character. Tiny heads and all that. But at least he’s consistent about it and it becomes his style. The likenesses are for the most part excellent. And both Luke and Leia look sexy in their miner outfits. However, the Yuzzem are a bit too super-bad ass for me. They look cool, but I like our retarded Yuzzems better.
I agree about the Thundarr/Ukla reference….and Thundarr Rules! Ukla vs Chewbacca would be an awesome battle!!!!!!
Oh, regarding the newest strip.
I THINK the Saxophone sees more action in Jazz than the Trumpet. Don’t hold me to that.
The particular style of jazz that Leanne and I had been subjected to, whilst having dinner at a local Panera Bread restaurant, featured a trumpet from hell. But there was an annoying saxophonist too. For the purposes of the strip I just went with what I could reasonably fit in a word balloon. If I did an unabridged strip then there would be a lot things that I’d like to take shots at. Bloody jazz. It’s the freestyle kind that causes the most suffering. 🙁
Oh my god. I feel so sorry for you.
I was wondering how I could support y’all without throwing money your way for the sake of the BMS comic. I’ll see about buying your superhero comic at some point.
And concerning the comic, how DO you two get so much expression from the characters when all they consist of is dots for lack of a better word. Leia’s expression in panel 1 is charming and timeless. My characters actually have eyes and even I (no pun intended) can’t do that. Thanks as always for the laugh, to the both of you.