Head Start
On Monday I pimped out the 501st Legion of Imperial costume enthusiasts, fully intending to recognize their rebel counterparts the Rebel Legion in the following post. As previously mentioned, the closely tied organizations assist with charity work and fund-raising events for noble causes all over the world. De JAwa Vu is one of their number and an active supporter of BMS. We thank him and the others who have helped this webcomic by spreading the word and livening up not only OUR experience at conventions, but the experience of ALL attendees.
The Rebel Legion represents costumers who have brought to life the wonderful look of the slightly more heroic characters of the Star Wars Universe, from rebel soldiers and pilots to Jedi, smugglers and wookiees. Oh! And Clone Troopers too, if you’re into the 21st Century Star Wars mythos! 🙂 In addition to serving as a hub for the many chapters of the organization all over the world, known as Outposts and Bases, the http://www.rebellegion.com/ also has extensive costuming resources for those interested in creating their own costume. Show the rebels some love and check out their website and lend your support to their charity operations. Follow the Rebel Legion on Twitter and on Facebook.
Pictured on the left (above) is one of the Rebel Legion members, DarthMitsy, who, to our delight has made a representation of Princess Leia’s Mimban Mining Outift from Splinter of the Mind’s Eye. We hope this serves as a teaser for the upcoming story arc in Blue Milk Special, now just over a week away!
Any ideas from any of our fine readers on us having Blue Milk available to drink at our table at New York Comic Con on Oct 8-10? How would we keep it cold without power and refrigerator? If you have ideas on the practicality of doing this then we’d love to hear them. We love the idea of being able to offer our fans a drink of Blue Milk… not the special kind though. I hope you know why. ;=
Oh! I forgot to mention that we have a brand new voting incentive strip. This time it is starring the BMS unique Jabba the Hutt, Declan Mulholland, accompanied by his accountant Mosep and his henchman, Bib Fortuna. Vote for Blue Milk Special
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Good strip!
The photo reminds me of the fun we had last weekend at the INVASION CORK show in Ireland.
love this one. And Han would not think about using that to his advantage twice (:
How come I can’t get my wife to wear costumes like that?
Guess that’s why I spend my free time reading web comics.
Yes, it is a good costume. 🙂
Ah yes – but you read comics and HAVE a wife. That’s a considerable achievement in itself.
Actually, I write comics and have a wife who draws them. 😉
I was waiting for that reply. You are truly the KING.
Oh yeah… I sure live like a king. 😛
You have a wife who draws and loves comics, Thats a miracle in and of itself right there! I have never meet even ONE girl that both likes and draws comics. So yea be happy cause you really do live like a king!
It’s funny, my wife recently went into a ‘Forbidden Planet’ shop – it was unavoidable – to buy a child’s present. At first she was embarrassed – but then actually amazed at the quality of the books and comics. “Some of them are absolutely beautiful!” Her whole attitude to comics, comic-readers/nerds etc., has totally shifted. She was really enthusing about them.
I’m used to comic shops and toy stores. Leanne and I used to frequent both, although now its more of a treat for the two of us than something that happens on a regular basis. We are odd folks. Big kids really. And nice story about your wife. Funny it had a positive effect on her. If she had a negative preconception to start with I wouldn’t have thought it would have been undone by the time she left.
@John, your wife actually FOUND some comics in Forbiden Planet? Took me 10 minutes of searching through their Bristol store before I found the new releases…
For keeping blue milk cold you could try using dry ice. Not only would it do a good job, but it’d look cool in the process. You’d probably have to insulate the container you’d be keeping the milk in though to keep the milk from freezing. I’m pretty sure you can buy dry ice from pretty much any large store. If they don’t keep it in stock, they’d probably be able to order it for you.
And of course, don’t stick your head into the cooler, or else *passoutklunk*. X D
LOL!
Cool-boxes work quite well for several hours. You just throw a few frozen icepacks in them with the milk.
Actually what could be done is get powdered milk and mix it with blue pixie sticks. Then all you need to do is poor water and mix it right when you serve it. In powder form you have no worries. People can come up to you with their own cold water bottles. You open the lid. Poor in the concoction . Put lid on and mix. Sweet Blue Milk!
You might want to check with the con command to see if they’ll allow you to sell or give away food or beverages. Jules Rivera planned to sell bottles of water with Marsh Rocket labels, but that got shot down by the San Diego Comic Con because it would’ve competed with their own vendors. So she changed it to bottles of hand sanitizer. I don’t know if they have different rules in New York.
I wasn’t planning to sell the drinks, just give them to fans who wanted to try them while we chatted. But logistically I don’t think we can pull this one off this year, even if NYCC allowed us to do it. Just getting up to NY City, dragging all our gear with us, and getting it all set up, is enough of a mission already.
Cute comic, as usual. (Is cute a compliment by the way? I’m not sure.)
Anyway as for the Blue Milk provided at conventions, other than a couple coolers stuff with the, well, stuff, All I can suggest is what the Mythbusters came up with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riMqzcuCdfY . Best wishes with coming up with something. : )
lol, now you’re promoting terrorist activities!?
For all the bitching I do about George Lucas– and I do a LOT– I still have to admit that this 38-year old, former military, football-coaching, self-defense instructor gets a little choked up thinking about the hundreds of thousands of dollars raised for charity by people inspired by his movies. I don’t know who came up with the idea the first time, “Hey, let’s dress up like storm troopers and go hand out toys at a children’s hospital!” but there is surely a very special place in the afterlife set aside for them.
This is why Star Wars is better than Star Trek. Even if there were no other reasons, there would still be THIS. No space explosion, no lightsaber duel, no CGI effect can possibly compete with seeing the 501st in “action.” Great people doing great things.
Thanks for promoting them, Rod and Leanne.