I hate being an Imperial
Sorry about the delay, everyone. Leanne caught a nasty cold so it has been hard to work on the artwork for the next batch of strips. However, next Friday’s strip should be made available to our Patreon supporters later this afternoon (EST). I have finished the coloring and just need to piece it together. It’s great to finally shift the action to Endor (or the Sanctuary Moon of Endor). As everyone no doubt knows by now, I love Speeder Bikes, and have always loved Biker Scouts (I used to call them Scout Troopers as a kid), so it’s nice eyecandy for me and a pleasant shift from the Death Star and Rebel Fleet.
This has certainly been the longest period of time spent on any single movie in our ongoing parody. The Endor scenes are not even quite the halfway point in the film, yet the parody did end up embellishing a lot of the earlier scenes, so I don’t expect our Return of the Jedi to last much further than January 2016.
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Also, their armor should have been camo to blend with the forest. That way they’d be harder to spot. #ImperialBudgetCuts
Mad Magazine just had them figure it out, and fly over the trees.
I think they could have just carpet bombed a 50 mile radius around the generator, and dropped off an reinforced garrison every 1/2 mile.
Hell, they could have paved the entire moon.
If you are going to over do it, then over do it in style…
@Rod
Seeing as the terms Scout Trooper and Biker Scout are effectively interchangeable why would you have stopped calling them Scout Troopers?
@rktho
#ImperialBudgetCuts Is also apparently the reason that there are so few guard rails on the Death Star. 😉
They may have made a few bad decisions with the super high speed bikes on endor, but surely they more than made up for it, with the scout trooper helmet design which all but eliminates perrifferal vision and forces them to crane their necks to see side to side.
The design reminds me of blinkers on a race horse.
Given the terrain and speeds used, they wanted them entirely focussed on what was in front of them (those bikes do cost).
Also, they are the Empire, who could cause a problem for them. What could possibly go wrong.
Excellent observations! I think the blinkers on a race horse could be the answer.
Actually, as a Biker Scout, the vision in those helmets is surprisingly good with little of your peripheral vision cut down. What they should have had was some sort of camera on the back of the bike to allow them to just shift their eyes to see it instead of having to turn around completely.
Hahaha! 😀 I just laughed AND clapped my hands at this! Perfect! Thanks for the laugh.
Ha! I love these guys.
It’s kinda funny this came out on my birthday. So happy birthday to me! It’s also funny because some friends and I are Imperials rather then Rebels and we used to joke about the disadvantages of being Imperial, being teen-aged girls at the time it was mostly about “how do we know our co-workers aren’t hideous under the helmets?”
Interesting. I never stopped to think about the potential “blind date” problems with an Imperial relationship.
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http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/diy-star-wars-speeder-bike-quadcopter