4 Years and counting
Blue Milk Special’s Biggs Darklighter (or “Super Biggs”) is part Errol Flynn and part Terry Jones’ The Bishop. For those unfamiliar with the Monty Python sketch, see below.
4 years ago, something special happened. Leanne agreed to team up with me on a Star Wars parody webcomic. With only a few interruptions, Blue Milk Special has been going every week since February 2009. We started with three strips per week and dropped back to two after our initial burst of madness and enthusiasm eventually had to face the realities of life. But you don’t come here for reality and neither do we. BMS has been an escape for both of us and a nice collaborative project to keep us working together, even when Leanne has occasional professional comic committments pop up.
We’re not quite finished with Empire, so I’ll withhold discussion of that milestone for a couple more weeks. However, with Shadows of the Empire and Return of the Jedi both just around the corner, it will be interesting to see how far we get by our fifth anniversary. One thing is for sure, the more feedback and support we get, the easier it is to channel our energy into more silly strips. So, keep commenting and letting us know when a comic made you laugh.
Episode 52 of Masters Cast!
Leanne joined the regular cast of long running Master of the Universe podcast, Masters Cast with episode 47, last August and has been part of the team since. Leanne was the editor for the original Masters of the Universe comic reboot in 2003 and illustrated the Stratos origin story. The latest episode (episode 52) wanders off-topic with Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Gremlins, Ruthless People and more! Head over to Masters Cast to hear the episode and join Leanne and crew.
In her first guest appearance, back in episode 47, Leanne gave her thoughts on the new Master of the Universe comics published by DC, as well as the Mattel Masters of the Universe Classics toy collectors’ line. You can listen to her first appearance on the show, here.
Congrats of another wonderful year of BMS. Thank You so much.
Oh that is great the ever faithfull yet behind schedule Biggs showing up just that much too late, love it.
Congrats!
Without this webcomic, the Star Wars community would be short of one of the best parodies. A coffee mug holding Vader is now deeply burned into the minds of the (adult) fandom base. It is always a reason to celebrate such a good working colab especially if the outcome is so outstanding. And the best of all : it still seems to be fun for you and that much needed heartblood is running through your sketches.
That said : Biggs to the rescue! On to another 4 years of mad Star Wars mayhem!
Congrats on the milestone! I plan to continue to share this comic for however long it’s around!
And who has the better surname? Darklighter or Skywalker? Oooh! Maybe a new poll to determine which character has the best surname?
Look, things never get any worse because of Biggs do they?
I mean, that in itself is almost Boba Fett AWESOME.
Let’s give him that.
Congratulations on getting to four years. It’s been tough at times for you, but the comic has been consistently good throughout those 4 years. It’s always great to see good old Biggs back again. Have you guys been to see “A Liar’s Autobiography”?
Biggs is definitely NOT someone you want to bring the appetizers for your next party.
I don’t care how many times you do this gag, I LOVE IT!
On a sour note, you are going to make me rupture an Internal Organ or two, from laughing to hard! 😉
What is the other end of that rope tired to anyway?
It’s tied to his floaty wee cloud up in heaven Tom.
*sniff*
I assume it’s tied to whatever Batman or Spiderman are attaching things to 🙂
Watch this. 36 seconds in…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUtziaZlDeE
WTH?!
Well… If Spidey can do it, so Can Biggs! 🙂
Obviously it’s around Reverend Michael Palin’s neck…
Congratulations and a happy anniversary to BMS!
Wow, four years. That’s a lifetime on the internet. Great job, and keep up the good work.
Congrats on hitting four years! It’s awesome you’ve been able to keep going all these years; I know it hasn’t always been easy.
Hahaha! Biggs to the rescue. Too late (again). 😉 Ah, it’s been so long since we last saw Biggs; nice to see him again.
God I don’t think this will ever get old. My flatmate just had to knock on my door to ask if I was okay…
Congrats on hitting your four year mark!
Biggs – a spirit too big to be constrained by mere death! The powers-that-be might be reluctant to allow those who have passed on to influence the world of the living, but since Mr. Darklighter is late for everything, they figured, ok fine, what the heck.
Thanks for four years of BMS!
Four years? Isn’t that the Carbonite anniversary?
Hey R&L, have you seen Camelot? Cuz I just had a mental flash of Biggs singing C’est Moi. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRRlUxjir0g
Ha ha!
For some reason I thought you wrote Spamalot not Camelot. Watched the video and waited, and said this isn’t funny. Then “oh, this is Camelot, not Spamalot!!”
Well, both were good plays!
I have Python on the brain from the Bishop skit above, I guess.
I’m an idiot. I forgot to congratulate you on 4 wonderful years.
THANK YOU BOTH!
Congrats on 4 years! Now… The talk was that you would never do the prequels… But what about the new movies? Any chance of seeing JJ Abrams in a cameo?
No comment until I’ve seen the new movies. If I don’t like them then I’m not likely to invest the personal time into parodying them. I’m still undecided about the PT, though I am sure we will do a couple of strips. But a full blown parody of the PT is not likely.
The PT stuff really doesn’t deserve your attention!
Thanks for four years of entertaining and informative comics! 😀
Congrats on four years. I love the Bishop sketch and I love Blue Milk and Biggs.
Blue Milk and Biggs.
That sounds like a book that Dr. Seuss would write.
WTF?!? Biggs abandoned his training as well!!