In space, no one can hear your SFX
Originally, the Imperial freighter was going to be substituted for the Planet Express, in what would have been part of a Futurama crossover subplot. That, however, just complicated the strip and we knew we needed to stay on target.
Leanne and I had a very enjoyable time at Annapolis Comic Con. Our friend Charles won Best Costume Award for his A’Sharad Hett costume. It is one of MANY that Charles cosplays. Charles is the Executive Officer of the Rebel Legion’s Terrapin Base, always ready to recruit anyone who is serious about cosplaying “the good guys” from Star Wars.
He commissioned a great sketch of the character from Leanne.
We also had a great time with Eric and Shep from the 501st Legion’s Old Line Garrison. Eric even joined me behind the table for a while and covered for Leanne and myself as we ran off to treat ourselves to a photo opportunity with some meaningful nostalgia from our past. Or is that future? Never can tell with time travel. We’re both indebted to Eric for his support and kindness. A true friend. In fact, I made this little something as a thank you.
On the left is the original sketch Leanne drew for Eric in 2011. On the right is my version, all done from a photo we took of the sketch back in 2011 before handing it over to its new owner.
And our friend Karen showed up in her Slave Leia outfit for a non-Star Wars commission that Leanne had been busy with in the last few weeks. I met a number of fellow local artists and creators, including Octopus Tree House who have some of the cutest artistic takes on Star Wars characters we have ever come across! Take a look at their work.
Leanne also drew Mara Jade for the first time, courtesy of Finn the Swede, a local reader who came to the show to see us.
The difficult thing about writing a con report is that you’re going to miss mentioning so many people that contributed to making the day such a success. A special thank you to Ben Penrod and Awesome Promotions for organizing the con. Go support his Kickstarter for Awesome Com DC 2014. They are nearly at their goal!
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I love the design for the Medium Freighter, good thing the Imperials had the good sense to paint an Imperial symbol on it.
Dash, BTW is a man or rare class and conviction. I want to push him out of an airlock, but I doubt he would fit.
Love the Con Pics! 🙂
Great strip!
Love the sketches – nice to see Mara!
I’m thinking the Bothans will regret having Dash’s “help,” though just for a brief time, I suspect.
I’m in for Awesome Con DC!
Dash seems more like a bang bang guy than a Pew Pew one. 😉
Man those ship renderings are spot on….. I always loved the outrider and wish that there was a collection of short stories or more of a background done with dash, yes he was a solo stand in but he could have had a different back story worth telling….. Then you could space him out the airlock!
Yeah luckily there are lots of good versions of pretty much EVERY ship in Star Wars for the gang to work with. 🙂
Do you think he’s humming ‘tie fighter attack’ from ANH to himself as well?
‘Dum dum, dum dum, dah daahhh!! Dah dah dah dah……’
there were some of the Dark Horse comics that focused on a post-shadows Dash, as he tries to help Guri get the assassin droid programming purged from her memory. regrettably, i dont think they developed him much further than that tho. while Guri’s actually cool. i didnt follow those storylines much, so i dont recamll like i should.
ayayayaaaayyyyy!!!!!! That dash with the Bang .. Bang…. How he could figure it out the sound of a revolver? What a dumb!!!