Skywalker Upgrades
Losing your dominant hand is not quite as grievous as is used to be. You can go for a hook, a robot hand, or the sort of lumberjack hardware that any good S-Mart department manager would feel naked without. By now, most of our readers know that 2-1B has a thing for Luke. Hardly surprising then, that the caring medical droid gave in to Commander Skywalker’s wishes! And for those that don’t get the reference, here’s a clue.
Here’s a great photo of 2-1B and Luke Skywalker with his alternative robot hand option…
Both Leanne and I are left-handed. An amazing coincidence, but it also means losing our right hand is less inconvenient. I remember when I was a kid, always hoping Bruce Campbell / Ash was left handed. We southpaws need our heroes.
Gimme some sugar, baby.
…is something Luke contemplated saying to Leia, until Ben went and spoiled it all.
Eeeeeeeeeeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee!! Totally didn’t see that reference coming! X D
bwahahaha, awesome!!!! 😀
shop smart.. shop S-mart 😉
darnit i was gonna say that!
LOL!!! Yessss!!!!! Love it!!!!
I’ve been following your comic now for many months, and love what you do. But recently I’ve been noticing that you are posting a lot of pictures from the old movies. I find these spectacular! I’ve never thought to look at these scenes as black and white! I was wondering if these were just screen caps scaled over in black and white, or are you getting these from another source?
Also Bruce Campbell rules…:-)
Some of the photos I scanned from the pages of Rinzler’s excellent books “The Making of Star Wars” and “The Making of Empire Strikes Back”. Others have been collected from various sources online including some great Facebook pages.
Mark Hamill is actually left handed.
Well there you go! Mark Hamill is now even cooler.
Actually, he’s ambidextrous. He uses his left hand for writing and things like that but he can also use his right hand just as well. Notice that he holds blasters and lightsabers and such right-handed in the movies.
And this isn’t just from observation, he’s mentioned himself that he’s an ambi. Which makes me feel pretty cool because I’m an ambi too!
Maybe you’re a jedi? 😉
Ambi’s shouldn’t be allowed to married… It says so in the Bible… “Don’t let your left have know what your right is doing…” Or was that Homor Simpson?
ANYWAY! I always wanted to lose my hand after seeing empire so I could get a cool robotic hand! WHo doesn’t want a robot hand?
Leia’s back in her Star Wars robes! I didn’t remember that. Did I even see this movie?
I’m left handed too!
Don’t blame yourself. The scene is so brief it’s hard to appreciate the costumes. I am surprised that so many people did not know Lando was wearing Han’s outfit though. You’re a lefty too and cooler for it. 🙂
Rod, Leanne, You just made my day 10 times over!
Neil thanks for suggesting the Chainsaw stump (if that is where the Idea came from).
BTW also a southpaw!
I would love to take the credit for it but alas, Rod thought up this one all by himself. Delusions of grandeur…
Does it count that my sister is a south paw?
Bruce FTW!
Another Lefty.
Or maybe an attached light saber. Or maybe…
Back when the original Doom was the thing there was a mod that made it Star Wars
Doom, the chainsaw was replaced by a lightsaber. Once it bugged when loading and didn’t load the replacement sound files. So I pull out the light saber, and it has the chainsaw sound. 🙂
Light chain saw!
I love Evil Dead and Army of Darkness! That’s great!
“We southpaws need our heroes.”
You bet your bippy, baby!
Darn.. I’m left-handed, my father’s family hails from Västra Götaland and my mother’s family from Gotland, and our family are believing Christians. Despite growing up in Stockholm, I’ve always wondered if I’m technically a Swedish Redneck??? :s
Hail to the king, baby!
I really enjoy when you include the bonus panels like you did today. 🙂
Well now we understand the dilemma about Luke’s clone Luuke: His hand was possessed by the dark side
(If you don’t get the ref, Luuke was an almost soul-less mentally-unstable dark-side clone of Luke, made from dna samples of his hand found years later. i have absolutely no idea how the hand kept fresh enough to provide cloneable dna, they apparently just found it lying around in the shafts beneath cloudcity or something)
that was also how they found Luke’s/Ani’s old Lightsaber. silly as the plot-idea sounds, it’s cannon. they even took that jedi clone from the thrawn stories (Jooruus c’baaooth or something?) as the master(mind) behind the clone
The fact every stupid idea by every writer and his uncle who has written for spin-off Star Wars material is automatically canon is part of the great problem with Star Wars as a whole in its current state. When the new films and spin off movies come out I’m sure they will invalidate much of the EU, and perhaps deservedly so. Lawrence Kasdan and co are not going to get hung up about sticking to the convoluted mess of Star Wars EU canon. They are just going to focus on telling a story the majority of the movie going public can enjoy.
Y’know that’s an english/american term I’m fascinated by: “his uncle” or “until you call uncle”. Not sure if we scandinavians have an equalent saying. what exactly does it mean? 😮
Everyone and his brother. Everyone and his uncle. It just means everybody.
I’ve read conflicting claims about disney respecting the eu, or them overwriting it. Dunno what they’ll do, but I’d also prefer if they would make a “new” eu, so to speak. altough I have a feeling they will just do like blizzard did(and still does) with their warcraft lore in world of warcraft and all it’s expansionpacks: remakes of old lore, and putting in extra bits of lore in between others, up until the time Lore doesn’t matter anymore, which basically is the case with wow currently. heck they even found a way to explain-away how players using the minotaur race -which are basically shamanistic native-indians- being able to use the human/dwarf/elven paladin class, which are frIggin ROMAN-CATHOLIC TEMPLEKNIGHTS xD (something about going “oh noes, it’s not the holy light they’re using, theyr’re just worshipping the sun!” despite the fact the class has the exact same aestethics and functions as the original temple-esque behaviour, such as being a class specified for combatting undead and demon-type npc’s)
speaking about warcraft, i loved warcraft 3, the last game they made about that universe before going mmo, and one of my fav units, the Dwarven Rifleman, actually sometimes says “this. is. my. BOOMSTICK!” when you click to engage him in combat 😀
Darn, I just realized. this may be completely random, but we won’t be able to expierence what the written or game-made eu gave us anymore: Ben’s forceghost. nooooooooo. Unless they’ll find a way to make Ewan McGregor perfectly imitate Alec Guiness. make no mistake, McGregar is a fav actor of mine, and while i think he makes a great portrayal of a young to middle-aged Kenobi, Old Ben just isn’t the same without Guiness 🙁
I thought Timothy Zahn did an excellent job reinforcing the continuation of the Star Wars legacy in the early 1990’s. The Thrawn Series is what got me into the Star Wars universe and ultimately into the Sci-Fi genre. I know the EU or AEU is a bit convoluted and may seem a bit disheartening at times, but I have to say that those who loved Star Wars and wanted to see it expand and put time and effort into have given us the fans more to chew on and expand our imaginations of this other universe.
Also, as you have thrown in Futurama, Serenity/Firefly and now Army of Darkness I am curious of what other crossovers you wish to expand on?
Perhaps Doctor Who, Back to the Future? Ghostbusters?
(ooo, against The Emporer? ‘Are you gods?’– ‘Uhm, no.’—‘Then die!’ [Lightning-bolts from hands])
Anyways, just wanted to put my 2-bits in the ring/hat as I am a devout Zahn fan, Angelmass and The Green and the Gray are some of my favorite pieces of literature!
Thank you again!
A Walker of the Nightside
I think they’ve already done doctor who back in the early dagobah strips
Hahaha brilliant !
I love your humor and the way you notice the detail calling for a parody…
And of course, you know your classics… Cult, indeed !
Army of Darkness FTW! Thanks for keeping me laughing. 🙂
Can he keep the Chainsaw? Please!?
Light side, dark side, I’m the guy with the gun.
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