Chewbacca vs Stormtroopers
Armor is only so useful, as Chewbacca slowly realizes in today’s strip. We hope this one was worth the wait after our skipping Wednesday. Next week will see the conclusion of our current Holiday Special “cartoon parody”. We think its going to be a much more satisfying conclusion to the adventure than than one we got onscreen.
I forgot to mention at the start of this week that we have added a new voting incentive strip. It’s a sequel to our Smoking Jawa / Aunt Beru strip from way back at the beginning of our ANH storyarc. If you like Smoking Jawa, let us know. As we have more ideas for him in the future if readers are interested. Click here to vote and read the latest incentive strip.
Last week we announced that Blue Milk Special would have a table at Baltimore Comic Con (August 28-29) and New York Comic Con (Oct 8-10). If you will be attending and would be willing to not only meet us but to help us pass out our stash of exclusive Blue Milk Special promotional postcards to passers-by, then we would be most grateful. We would ideally like to find some Star Wars costumed fans to help drum up some attention and direct attendees to our, most likely, hard to find table. If you or any fans that you know might be interested, please get in touch with us.
Are you new to BMS? If so, then you can start reading this webcomic from the beginning by clicking here.
Watch the Star Wars Holiday Special animated short below, courtesy of YouTube.
Like that armor ever protected them from anything. You should look up “The Injured Stormtrooper” its avery funny video.
I love the smoking jawa.
I was halfway hoping you two would parody the live action part of the special.
Actually, Sam, the plan IS to do the Holiday Special (the whole thing) we just moved the cartoon forwards for continuity purposes since Lumpy watches it during the show. I see the events of the cartoon as having preceded the events on Kashyyyk. So, yeah, we have at least 2 more months of the Holiday Special to go!
Re-reading the post I feel stupid .
Don’t feel stupid! A number of people have now mentioned they didn’t realize we are covering the whole Holiday Special (Bea Arthur included). With our starting with the cartoon segment first that is bound to create confusion. I just felt the events in the cartoon preceded those Kashyyyk so we would present in that order for continuity.
Bea Arthur reads this comic? Wow! I thought she was deceased.
Oh You mean the part where she is In the Holiday special, got it ;=
All I have to say to you sir is… >:=
J/K. We’re glad that our readers are as much bunch of wise-asses as we are. ;=
I saw the incentive strip. Awwww!! : (
Hey, Mr. Admin, Sir, i just thought of a great way of using the smoking Jawa! 😀 In ep. VI one of the spectators of Luke’s battle with the jabba is a Jawa. if you ever make it into RTJ, you should make that Jabba’s Palace Jawa into the smoking one! :3
ooops. said *jabba* when i meant rancor xD my bad.
‘Nother Smoking Jawa fan here…. Did I hear you right? Have we got singing sensation Bea Arthur to look forward to in BMS?
Yeah. In fact, we outlined our intentions for the Holiday Special parody in our earlier blogs. I guess many readers missed our plans! Yeah, TESB is still a ways off.
If I remember correctly you are also doing Splinter before TESB.
That’s correct. The structure is ANH, original Interquel material, the Boba Fett cartoon, The Holiday Special, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, TESB, ROTJ. Then, possibly some post ROTJ material including a very brief parody of the Thrawn trilogy. It’s been a long time since I read that trilogy and the idea of parodying the Original Trilogy is daunting enough as is. We shall see how things go. It’s my hope to at least get to TESB without this webcomic stalling due to outside factors. Very tough making the time for non lucrative fan productions when both Leanne and I have a shot at professional careers in the creative industry. But we love Star Wars so…
Sounds like a hand full.
That brings up another question, why do you two not have at least a few adds on here ?
The truth is, after the site suffered from a wordpress hacker attack in early January, I had to rebuild it all from scratch with my limited web design abilities. Somehow, in the process I seem to have messed up the feature that allows three columns below the comic. Ideally there would be a narrow column on the left for advertising. I’ve been too afraid of something going wrong and requiring the (by now even bigger task) of rebuilding the site all over again.
I’m also having a hard time finding someone reliable and competent enough to do this for us as the guys I do know either have limited experience with wordpress or I’m just not confident they can pull it off without a lot of hitches. I’m one of those guys who just wants to get the job done quickly and right and so far everyone I’ve spoken to about helping hasn’t been very enthusiastic. I’m not sure that advertising clicks would have much impact on helping this site, but I’d still like to have them there just in case.
Another reason for the lack of progress in finding a webdesigner to help for cheap is that the webdesign and the marketing of BMS detract from the time consuming job of actually creating the strips. It can be draining messing around with the technical aspect of things when Leanne and I are artistically driven. :-/
this is really funny! XD I actually saw the whole holiday special… it is a classic, and I think you all are doing a great and funny job re-doing the cartoons! XD
Man I can’t wait to read your The Empire Strikes Back!!
I really REALLY enjoyed your A New Hope!
Kudos you, lady and gentleman!
And Kudos again!!
ha ha, I love how chewie was the one shooting, instead of boba. and don’t worry boba, just don’t look behind and pretend they have built-in life jackets.
also, dance, wookiee, dance! and poor smoking jawa. that just made me so sad, but you need more of him!
The site is fine as is for now. The Strips and story are the most important. Messing with things when you don’t have the right tools or knowledge or time just messes things up and often beyond repair. Ask DAN over at SWAC about overhauling things and the time and energy and headaches. Its a long process. Keep up the good work De Jawa Vu aka “the Unofficial Smoking Jawa”!
I meant to say Jef….He has been working on things and spending many hours fixing things………