Splinter of the Mind’s Eye – Part 37
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Elements from both the Tarkin interrogation blooper in the novel and the comic fight were the inspiration for today’s strip. Technically the punchline should be a stab at the Dark Horse Comics adaptation, in which Terry Austin and Chris Sprouse are wholly responsible for Leia’s gratuitous flesh baring. Naturally BMS takes it to the extreme! The book version lacks any hint of Vader tearing up her clothing but the fight between them is particularly violent. However, the dialogue before they fight is the real highlight. Here’s an excerpt accompanied by the unrelated panels from comic adaptation.
“Do you remember that day back on the station,” Vader mused, with deliberate patience, “when the late Governor Tarkin and I interviewed you?” He placed a peculiar stress on the word “interviewed.”
Leia had both hands on opposite shoulders and was shivering as if from intense cold.
“Yes,” Vader observed, perverse amusement in his voice, “I can see that you do. I am truly sorry I have nothing as elaborate to treat you to at this time. However,” he added, swinging his weapon lightly, “one can do some interesting things with a saber, you know. I’ll do my best to show you all of them if you’ll cooperate by not passing out.”
Leia’s hands dropped to her sides. The fear did not leave her, but she forced it into the back alleys of her mind by sheer will. Running the few steps to Luke’s side, she knelt and groped at his wrist. When she rose, she was holding the lightsaber carefully in one hand.
Vader looked on approvingly. “You’re going to fight. Good. That will make it interesting.”
She spat at the advancing giant, a pitifully feeble gesture as she brandished the lightsaber.“The Force give me leave to kill you before I did,” she snarled.
An awful coughing laugh issued from behind the gargoylish breath mask. “Foolish infant. The Force is with me, not you. But,” he shrugged amiably, “we will see.” He assumed a position of readiness. “Come, girl-woman… Amuse me.”
—Splinter of the Mind’s Eye by Alan Dean Foster – Chapter 12
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That’s awesome! Send us a bigger picture of that and we’ll post it in a blog.
Frankly I don’t know how to make it bigger and send it to you. I copy/pasted the picture in an e-mail and made it bigger in the e-mail to send to you. I sent it to myself first to make sure it would work. I didn’t. So I don’t know what’s going on, but I do know that if you just click my name on this comment you can see my photo and copy/paste it, I think.
Wow, I am NEVER reading Splinter of the Mind’s Eye now…. /disturbed
But the fans are perverts too… so we like the idea of a naked Leia! 🙂
Of course the question comes how exactly does Vader cut so precisely with a light sabre to cut through a skin tight out fit without disembowelling her in the process?
“I think my light sabre is broken…”
That’s what I was thinking. Maybe he has it on no kill mode.
lol
Pink lightsaber reflected by pink skin, absorbed by black clothes.
Question is; why isn’t there more mirror arnour in SW?
Am i the only one thinking “gross that’s his own daughter”? ‘Cos that borders on incest!
I think a lot of people are thinking that. And we can only think that in hindsight because at the time there was no familial relationship.
Awful coughing laugh? Oh god…GRIEVOUS!! :O
Nope: the prequels didn’t exist. Proof? Darth Bieber. More proof? Jar-freaking-Jar.
Although Hippie Master Qui-Gon-Jinn was pretty cool ;P I wonder what would happen if he and BMS Leia were to ever meet…
Horribly written excerpt evokes horror not.
I like the arc that my opinion of SOTME has gone through while reading these strips.
“Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, you say? Yes, I’ve heard of that, though I never read it. Well! If they’re including it in the comic, it must be an important part of the Star Wars universe! I’ll find the time to read it some time soon…”
“…or, maybe it doesn’t have to be *too* soon. I’m sure it’s important, but it might be hard work. Not this month, anyway…”
“…maybe not this year…”
“…decade…”
“…no. Just no.”
I can handle clunky writing – I’m reading ‘Star Trek – A Singular Destiny’ right now, and it’s worth the effort… but this is making my storybrain cry out in terror, before suddenly being silenced.
Haha! Maybe we’ve spared you a few hours of your life? I hope so.
OK, the snippet of story sounds like the start of some really heinous fanfic, just before it gets to anatomically-incorrect dubcon that also involves Luke.
Reading this after watching The Force Awakens makes it more interesting. See, Kylo Ren?