Declan Jabba bites the dust
Alas poor Declan Jabba, I knew him well. That is, I hope our readers are now more aware of the Jabba the Hutt that could have been.
“Han, my boy! Why’d ya hahv ta go kill poowah Greedo like that?”
Well, he got a good run in Blue Milk Special as the real Jabba, but it had to come to an end. It seems all good villains buy the moisture farm eventually. Letting go of Tarkin was a little harder, but Declan certainly found a place in our hearts. I don’t think I ever shared my Declan Jabba custom action figure with you guys. Here it is. I know its not great, but I never said I was good at this stuff!
Star Wars Episode IV – Jabba the Hutt as Declan… by twenty24
Mid July – State of Rod report…
I’ve been reading Starship Troopers, and Armor. The latter was brilliant and extinguished the Paul Verhoeven comedy boob flick adaptation from my mind! Very interesting points of view on war, patriotism, and most importantly, powered-armor suits. I had no idea just how WRONG that film adaptation was until I read this book. It should have been an art film, not an action flick.
I’m currently working my way through one of my favorite works by Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes. I loved the Buena Vista film adaption in 1983 with Johnathan Pryce. We screened it again recently. Class.
Playing a little X-COM, UFO Enemy Unknown through the open source version of the game release in June 2014. It was a game I watched my friends play in the mid 1990s because I never had a computer powerful enough at the time to play the cutting edge games. This one is a true classic and remains addictive today. Ugh…. I just want to bring it to life in some sort of Webcomic venture. Gimmie a list of your favorite aliens and robots from throughout sci-fi and I’ll see what sticks.
I’m still looking for someone to stargaze with in the Maryland area. Preferably you have a telescope.
Let’s see, what else? Can any of our military readers recommend any GOOD books about marines, in-the-field ops, special ops, sweeping buildings, recon, etc. I have an idea. Email me at bluemilkspecial@gmail.com
Patreon offers readers a way to support the artists they love with a regular subscription to their work. It’s basically like an ongoing Kickstarter campaign, where you can pledge to give us an amount which you specify every time we release a new piece of content (a webcomic strip). Don’t worry, you can set a maximum amount in case you’re worried about spending too much in a month.
Just so you all know, WE ARE NOT SUDDENLY CHARGING YOU FOR BLUE MILK SPECIAL CONTENT, IT IS STILL FREE. We are just asking for help and Patreon offers a way for those of you who can afford to support us to do so. At the same time, you’ll have a much closer connection to us and receive a lot of exclusive Patreon only Blue Milk Special content and perks to show our appreciation. Want to see Boba Fett beyond the Sarlacc pit? Support us and let us know what you want more or less of. We will listen and we want be able to chat with fans.
If we can get some extra help financially, then it makes the project easier and provides an additional incentive for Leanne and myself to create new strips more frequently. That means more content for you guys. All readers will benefit, but Patreon supporters will get extra good stuff.
Declan Jabba figure Rocks!
I will observe a moment of silence for the big fella. 🙁
Noooo.
Leia, puppet Jabba was the evil one.
Declan Jabba gave job opportunities to out of work crossover characters. The puppet was the only outlet for that personality, without it he was fine.
Now who will Starbuck and Apollo dance for?
Perhaps Jenna can get Avon to come in and take over the operation?
Ants! Ants everywhere! “Armor” would make a cool movie but they would probably mess it up.
Poor Declan. Maybe he shouldn’t have given Leia all those cigarettes. And that’s why second-hand smoke is dangerous!
Very cool figures. I like the alternate realityishness of it. Oola is there uneaten. Perhaps, with a human Jabba, she didn’t refuse his advances or whatever and therefore wasn’t fed to the rancor? And Leia’s disguise seems intact. Maybe they could have even negotiated a settlement with profit for everyone!
You love the classic X-Com, I’ll buy you the recent update someday. It’s so much more, and gives you the same feelings of satisfaction that comes from smashing aliens in a tactical squad based method. 🙂
I’ve heard the remake is a lot more linear and has lower replayability.
I’ve logged – according to Steam – 318 hours in XCom Enemy Unknown (and its expansion), and I think one of my friends has topped that. So if that isn’t enough replay ability…
The original XCom UFO Defense got was ‘linear’ in the same manner as the new one. Steady growth and expansion of ability to face tougher aliens, bring down bigger ships, and clear out the alien bases. The new game streamlined it a bit so that its more realistic to finish a game before getting bored of it. I have finished the base game three times (or more) and the expansion at least three times as well.
The expansion adds several nice things, but I recommend playing it a couple times on vanilla first.
The new game is different from the original – the inspiration and flavour are there, but its not the same game. This annoyed some people. On that same token, the UFO Defense inspired Xenonauts has been criticized by some as being too *similar* to the original game, so no matter what you do, somebody will be annoyed.
Armor is one of my fav military sci-fi books. Have you tried picking up All You Need is Kill?
Why so much hate for the Paul Verhoeven movie? It’s great!
If you’re one of those uptight book nerds that rages over the movie not being exactly like the book (or anything like the book in this case), just pretend the movie is called ‘Spaceship Army Guys’ instead and enjoy it for what it is.
No I’m not an uptight book nerd. Have you read the book though? Are you aware the the movie only shares the title, character name, and the bugs in common? Did you know the soldiers are cap troopers, dropped individually to the planet in powered armor suits? Did you know the story actually has very little action at all, and is mostly about philosophies of warfare, future government, and Rico’s relationship with his father? The book and movie have nothing but the most superficial in common. The movie is a essentially a comedy sci-fi flick with gratuitous nudity that makes a joke of a very intelligent book. Maybe if there was another version of Starship Troopers out there that was actually based on Robert Heinlein’s work, then it wouldn’t matter so much that a cheesy boob-filled, joke adaptation by Verhoeven existed. But since it now defines what Starship Troopers is for many people and has two sequels, it is a little hard to enjoy it “for what it is”. I think Verhoeven’s stuff sucks anyway. Does that make me an uptight book nerd? I never read any book of Robocop. @-_,-@
OK, now I’m really disappointed. I only got to see the movie on network broadcast TV, so not only did it mostly ignore the book, but there weren’t even boobs in it!
You can deny it all you want, but after a tirade like that, yes, you are an uptight book nerd.
Try reading a book. Then maybe you can have an opinion on the “adaptation.” Do you want to deny you’re a troll?
I read the book long ago, found it boring. A movie version of the book would have been a commercial failure. Not to mention that being pro-fascist probably wouldn’t have been a selling point. The movie had to do more of a parody of the fascist Federal Government than Heinlein originally did to avoid problems (some claim Heinlein wasn’t being pro-fascism in the book, but I couldn’t see any parody in what he wrote).
Frankly, most books to movies don’t have a lot to do with each other, its hardly new. Heck, Philip K. Dick books don’t even share the same name with the movie!
You obviously miss my point if you think I don’t know that a lot of movies deviate. How long ago was it when you last read it? The level of deviation between Starship Troopers and film “adaptation” is extreme. You stated you found the book boring, but just because you found it boring does that make it a bad book or does it need to be a book that has commercial Hollywood potential? No.
Was Heinlein pro-Fascist? What does that matter to the book? These are interesting themes with an interesting military perspective whether you agree with his philosophies or not. For your information, I am am not pro-Fascist myself, but it made for a very interesting book. Clearly not for everybody, but if you went into the book expecting marines vs aliens then you were going to be disappointed from the start. I think James Cameron’s Aliens had more influence on the Starship Troopers movie than the Robert Heinlein book, and that’s sad.
The book kept me interested without having to be a thrill ride. All movies like Starship Troopers are doing is riding off a well known name and book title and telling a completely different story in themes and tone. It’s its own thing. The bit about killing bugs was almost incidental in the novel. The film uses that as an excuse for an extremely tacky satirical action flick.
As an adaptation I think the film is an insult. Even on it’s own, I think the movie is terrible. I have several friends that have not read the book but love the movie, and one who loves the film, but like you, found the book boring. All I can say is it’s a damn shame the film is the lasting impression for a lot of people for what I consider to be a pretty good book.
I have to agree, the book and movie have almost nothing in common. And I’ve read through a couple of copies of Armour. They could have made into a semi-action movie with multiple parts for the 1 book. If you haven’t read the book ‘The Regiment’ I would recommend it.
I would also take the ‘uptight book nerd’ thing as a compliment. And no, I don’t expect the movies to follow every detail of the book to a tea, but expect the major plot points to be there (i.e. city of bones: the final battle did not take place in the sanctuary it took place at an abandoned psyc hospital).
BTW, love the comic and can’t wait to see what comes out next