Return of the Jedi
At long last… the final stop on the BMS journey? Having finally arrived at the last film in the original holy trilogy, I can feel a sort of momentousness. We’re going on toward five years of Star Wars “webcomickery” now. Sometimes, I wondered if we’d ever get here. I had to create a new category for this chapter of the parody, which helps it sink in a little bit. There will be a lot of new art to replace our old character models, including a new Vader. The first strip will debut this Friday.
As for the future? Return of the Jedi is all I can promise for now. So, enjoy yourself and most importantly, make the most of it while BMS is still alive and kicking, especially if you wish to see us or get a sketch at a convention near you…
This coming weekend (September 7-8) sees Baltimore Comic Con back in town. We will be at Table A68, listed as Leanne Hannah in the program. That’s right, we are not listed as Blue Milk Special, but under Leanne Hannah’s name. This was a conscious decision made when we registered for the table early this year. However, the Blue Milk Special banner will be flying proudly, with brand new art!
If you can make it to Baltimore Comic Con, then you can pick up a free BMS bookmark featuring brand new Return of the Jedi art, including Admiral Ackbar. First time we’ve ever made a bookmark, but we hope you will put it to use reading the Star Wars novels. We will also have a few of the friendly 501st guarding our table and ready to pose for a photo.
Check out our map below. Click for larger version.
And the following weekend of September 14th, we will be in Oaks, Pennsylvania for Retro Con! This will be our first appearance in Pennsylvania. Does anyone have any survival tips?
Ok…That is one freaky Ewok right there.
Yes it’s a good job making the evoks look as creepy as possible, but sadly there’s only so much to work with.
“Only so much to work with”…because they’re small. I see what you did there. 😉
Suitably frightening Ewok, I’d say.
Any idea how long RotJ will likely run? In other words, how soon will we be losing our Blue Milk fix? I’m sure we all want it to progress, but we don’t want to see it end.
I think ROTJ will take us up to 24 months to complete. That’s partially due to my announcement that BMS will be taking up an erratic update schedule from now on. We don’t want to commit to Monday and Fridays and consistently struggle to keep that pace (which has been the case since forever). So, being that this is a hobby webcomic, we just ask readers to understand our reason for updating only when we can from now on. It makes the project less of a burden and takes a little of the pressure off. We have a lot of things going on in our lives, both with health and family that require our focus. As always, BMS allows us a place to escape all that stress now and then and we are very excited to be starting ROTJ. We just don’t want to make promises we can’t keep. So, we will try to update twice a week on Mondays and Fridays, but there may be stretches of just one strip per week depending on our situation. That’s why this could take 2 years. Oh, that AND having a lot of ideas for ROTJ. I don’t want to hurry something good. There’s a lot of stuff that can be done in Jabba’s Palace and on Death Star II and I don’t want to miss the opportunities before the plot requires us to shift to the Rebel Fleet and Endor.
Yeah, I totally get you. There’s not much worse than having a hobby become a burden. I don’t think people will complain if, by doing that, we’ll have the strips going on, which is better than not having them at all because it’s draining you guys.
Plus, if it’s still comfortable with you guys by the time RotJ is complete, I’d totally like to see the prequel trilogy here….plus it’s going to be released after the original, just like Lucas did…haha
I think the prequels are too easy a target!
Luke looks like he’s having a lot of fun up there, as he should. Leia’s not his sister yet. Han might have some issues with it – Yoda definitely does!
1) LOVE the poster
2) CAN”T WAIT for Friday!
That Ewok’s eyes make it look really creepy. I know you’re going to have fun with this one. Thanks for the laughs.
Rick
I feel like I should have changed my answer to ewok on the last poll…
Yay, RotJ! I’ve been looking forward to this.
If you guys find some time, I’d suggest coming down to Fort Howard this weekend as well. For the Defenders Day Reinactment. 😛
Yeah, the eyes and the teeth freaked me out, and that was before I noticed the bloody axe.
I guess “Boussh” is keeping the cig inside the helmet?
YYAAAYYYYY ROTJ at last!!! jajajaj what a creepy ewok. I want to see leia texting from Jabba´s palace…
Excuse me, why did Leia just suddenly stop smocking?
This version was made for the Jedipedia booth at Celebration Europe II. All art displayed at the show had to be given the approval of LucasFilm. We felt we should be responsible with the material we presented to the family audience at the show and did not want to rub LucasFilm the wrong way, so we decided to emphasize Leia’s other vice, habitual TXTing.
“The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.”
this is going to be fun! 😀
Excuse me sir, this Jedi is defective, and I would like to return him…
I am sooooo looking forward to Jedi and your take on everything. I ill be honest… I am waiting to see a nice llllooooonnnnnggg series of leia in the bikini!!!
Only just joking Jedi now – sorry!