Altering the deal
Lobot gives Lando that look right after Vader threaten his boss. I’m sure Lobot was privately enjoying Lando’s emasculation.
Speaking of looks, the poll for the Best Princess Leia look is now closed. That the metal bikini would win was never in any doubt, but the contest for 2nd place was where the real battle took place! A whopping 1,341 votes were made over the last month and a bit. Here are the final results:
I think it’s interesting that the most popular character, that people had requested Leanne to illustrate on a sketchcard, was our BMS Leia. There have been NINE requests for Leia so far, giving her a clear lead over all others. To give you an idea of BMS Leia’s astonishing popularity, the only other character to get more than one request so far is Biggs, with two. The nine Leia sketchcards include 3x Slave Leia, 3x Senator Leia, and 1 each of Ceremonial Leia, Hoth Leia and Diaper Leia. The final sketchcard was a romantic interlude between Han and Leia, but it doesn’t count as an indicator of costume popularity as, in this particular card, she was not wearing anything at all!
Sketchards aside, the BMS poll did have some interesting results that I could not have predicted. Leia’s most popular outfits were the Ewok Dress, followed closely by the Cloud City dress. Return of the Jedi takes the cake for being Leia’s most flattering movie, not only with the slave outfit, but the Bounty Hunter Leia placing 5th. Personally, I like Leia’s brief appearance in the ROTJ Rebel uniform… however, only 5% of you thought it worthy of your vote.
Somewhat surprisingly, classic Senator Leia ranked 4th. I expected her iconic look and hairstyle to place higher. Ceremonial Leia’s look appears relatively popular, but it seems fans prefer Leia’s hair down, rather than up. As for Leia’s Hoth diaper suit… I don’t want to be mean to the costume designer, but it was one of the least flattering things she could have been stuck in for such a huge portion of the film. I think it would have been much better had she just finished taking a shower at the time the Imperial attack begun. She could have spent the rest of the movie stuck wearing a bathrobe with her hair down. I’m just saying…
The new poll asks how you feel about the Disney purchase of LucasFilm.
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Keep your dirty Ewok paws off her!!! Oh, and how the eff do the Ewoks have a textile and fashion industry to make that dress for her in the first place?! Expect BMS ROTJ parody to do a strip about this.
Princess Leia caught pretending this is her bridal dress…
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And if the Ewoks do have textiles (and the ability to manufacture human style clothing), why do they all where leather hood/bibs?
Hey, I would have voted for several of her costumes if I could have, but I had to choose only one. 😉
Also, the Ewoks must have some fast and skilled stitchers. 😛 It can’t have been more than a couple of hours from Wicket finds Leia and brings her home to the others are captured. There are cross stitching on the princess seams and the sleeves.
Are you kidding? Ewoks made that stuff? Just look at what they did to an army of storm troopers!
If anything they just killed the orginal owner who crash landed and took everything that wasn’t bolted down. That is where they got all of the all the clothing and little hood/bibs. (And I am counting multiple crash landings for the hoods)
LOL! This made me laugh!
You mean Lando won’t get a card for Bosses day?
Looking at the picture one can deduce that Leia went “Native” while on Endor. Those crafty little teddy bears can manage to make her a dress, but not underwear? I mean I understand that they went all winnie the pooh, with a shirt and no pants, but what was Leia’s motivation?
Maybe George Lucas told Carrie there was no underwear on Endor. 😉
But apparently there were razors. Wink…Wink…Nudge…Nudge…Say No more…
It wouldn’t be the first time he “forgot” to design space undergarments. 😉
Lobot finally gets his say! 😛
I think the new poll needs a “probably good, but I’m reserving judgement till we see results” option.
Good call. I’ve restarted the poll with an “undecided” option.
Disney’s purchase of LucasFilm is…excellent news!
It means more Star Wars movies. So I am happy.
Disney’s purchase of Marvel meant…nothing. It changed NOTHING. And so, I was okay with it, even though I was mad at first. Because they didn’t screw up Marvel, I’m not worried.
DISNEY! Please leave DC Comics alone.
Marvel and DC cannot be of the same company. I won’t accept that if it happens.
They screwed marvel. Killed off the human torch so as not to encourage kids to catch themselves on fire for fun, even though no cases of this existed (obviously). Spider-Man took his place on the fantastic four with an all white costume with a black circle on the forehead, then killed off Peter Parker and replaced with a new half Black half Filipino or something not racist, that can turn invisible and has more powers. I’m very thankful Disney received a script for Star Wars instead of doing it all by themselves, they’re still kids when it comes to doing things all by themselves.
That’s true. I hadn’t even made the connection before, but their killing off of major characters was post-Disney purchase. I really haven’t paid much attention to Marvel in a while, I’ve just been reading tons of DC stuff. As long as DC is left untouched by Disney, all is well.
So I was looking at the Leanne Hannah artbooks and was thinking of supporting by getting one. From the previews a few pages ago it looks like all the star wars/BMS stuff is in the first volume? I’m saving up my money but am willing to support. I Might even get a sketchcard, but idk, they look REALLY cool though! I just need to know if all the material in the sketchbooks are appropriate or whatever (I’m 16, and I don’t want to get something my parents don’t approve of, violence doesn’t matter, but if there are strips with language, or drawings with sexual themes, I probably won’t be able to get it). And also I can get a sketchbook and/or card anytime I want? Or does the deal expire eventually or something?
And I guess multiple sketchcards to go with the order would mean multiple $20 bills depending on how many I got?
Yep, the material is all safe for teens and up.
The Leanne Hannah Artbook Vol.1 is the one with the color art, including 3 BMS pieces (the group pose, the Kill Lucas, and Splinter of the Mind’s Eye cover parody). There’s also the Young Tarkin portrait based on Peter Cushing, though this is not in the BMS style since it’s a likeness. Other artwork covers subject matter like Harry Potter, Marvel, DC, Masters of the Universe, Power Rangers, Dr Who, Once Upon a Super Hero and a mix of others.
The sketchbook is a collection of Leanne’s black and white penciled and inked sketches illustrated this year. It includes a sketch of the Death Star Droid with the Mouse Droid, but other than that it is mostly Super Hero and pop culture characters.
You get the option of a sketchcard if you purchase a book. So if you purchased both the Artbook and the Sketchbook, you can purchase two sketchcards. Beyond that, you would have to talk to Leanne, as she might not have time to squeeze in additional requests. So long as you have bought at least one book and one sketchcard, I’m sure Leanne will consider doing more sketchcards for you. You’d just have to shoot her an email and ask politely. 🙂
We can only accept payment through Paypal. So if you can work out a deal with your parents you should have no problem! 🙂
I would hope I’m not alone in liking the “cloth diaper” outfit, but maybe I am. I’m not sure if I’m sold on the vest but when she took it off, I like the one-piece jumper look. It may not be super sexy and revealing, but I think it’s as fashionable as it can get while still being practical.
Honestly? I’m looking at it on Google images and I can’t find a reason why I like it. I’m not sure that I do anymore. Heh.
It reminds me of the spacesuit Ripley put on at the end of Alien. You know, the one where she… yeah. I guess it’s the soft, white, sewn material that makes the mental connection.
Also, “rebel officer leia” in Google Images produces interesting results.
Totally unrelated to this week’s or any recent post;
I just wanted to let Rod know that my “Once Upon a Superhero” #0 finally arrived. It looks good, I’ll read it tonight.
Can’t say I’m happy with the folks at Comixpress though. I ordered this in early August, wrote and asked about a month later, and got no reply or update. I’d forgotten about it until yesterday when they sent an update that it had shipped.
I didn’t mind the wait so much, and I understand they need to charge a decent amount to profit from small press. I wonder how many issues they sell of their comics.
If I order again I will try to buy some other comics from them to bring the shipping costs into line, and to support some more aspiring artists.
I just need to know which other comics they have to offer that I would like to read. Any suggestions?
In most cases, you have no idea what you are getting till you get it.
That is the beauty of Web Comics, you have to do a lot of looking around to find the right ones, but in the end you are only investing time, where as $ is a bit tight in this ecomony.
I talked to Leanne about your experience, and I think I’m going to kill the relationship with Comixpress and pull Once Upon a Super Hero from it. It’s just not good enough for my potential readers to have to wait so long and forget all about my book by the time it arrives. I apologize on their behalf for whatever caused the delay. I just want you to know I truly appreciate you making the purchase. I hope you enjoy the book AFTER all that!
I did enjoy it. Good story; clever. Hopefully you will get the opportunity to follow up on it someday and develop the character further.
Comixpress is a good idea in concept, and I understand it takes time to print on demand something. They should however, give you an estimated wait time, so folks know what to expect. A month is reasonable. Three months is not. They should also answer their emails. You don’t owe me any apologies on their behalf. I am though less likely to search through for other aspring self published artists. Are there any other outfits that do this work?
“That Look” was ” Yep, he’s (Expletive deleted by intent of author of this post) us. Plan B is a go. Militia is in position”.
OK, that picture of Leia with the mini wook…I mean Ewoks. I’ve never seen that picture before. Look at her right leg. Is it just me or is she not wearing, um, undergarments?
If she’s wearing underwear, it’s the sexy minimalist kind. I approve. Leanne probably doesn’t. 🙁
I didn’t get that impression from Lobot. He seemed grim. When Lando looked at him with that “we’re screwed” look, it was like Lobot was thinking “you don’t know the half of how bad we are messed up, boss. We’re TOAST.”
I know. It’s a parody! 🙂
Hellooooo legs!
More pinup worthy pictures of Leia please. 🙂
Bounty Hunter Leia.
I’m one of those oddballs who thinks Leia’s quality at any given moment was INVERSELY proportional to how effeminate she was being / looking. Slave Leia’s only shining moment in my mind was when she choked Jabba with the chain… though the long braid hairstyle was nice.
I paid more attention to Oola though, as it happens.