The Empire Strikes Back – Teaser #1
Here's the very photo that inspired today's teaser strip...
We are taking it easy on Blue Milk Special for the next couple of months. In the meantime we will be teasing you one strip a week (when possible). Meet Admiral Ozzel and Captain Piett.
It’s encouraging to see so many of you vote in our recent poll about how you categorize yourself as a BMS fan. For the next couple of weeks we will be asking Why do you think George Lucas altered Episode IV to make Greedo shoot first? Thanks to BMSketeer T. Gatto for suggesting this poll and the the voting choices. Have at it!
There will be a new voting incentive strip on Wednesday starring the Cantina Band, so be ready! In the meantime you can vote and see the current incentive strip here.
They thought I was crazy… but I was right… there was a fly on the window…
I saw it in the movies… *twitches*
Yeah… something like that lol…
Good comic Can’t wait for it! 😀
Vaping hell, is there really? And if so, how did I miss it after those 11,000 re-watches???
I dunno lol… must be the aliens that revealed it to me… I was abducted by aliens… in a van… free candy…
that was some good candy though… >.>
LOVING the Star Destroyer in panel 1 being all messed up, going totally the wrong way.
Feasible in space, though.
That was the first thing that jumped out at me. I’m all about making use of the three-dimensional aspect of space, but really in Vader’s space-navy, who needs a unified axis right? ;P
What a treat – and what a tantilizing taste of things to come – roll on 2011 🙂
I’m stoked to see Ozzel’s death. Will it be an accident like the officer in SotME? Or maybe he’ll get Vader angry.
Vader: “Admiral Ozzel came out of light-speed too close to the… is this decaf?”
Veers: “He felt it would be better if you laid off the…”
Vader: “He is as clumsy as he is stupid. General, find me some real coffee… and I guess prepare your troops for a surface attack?”
Veers: “Yes Lord Vader.”
I see this actually happening in the comic.
Why is it all the fun characters die in Star Wars? 🙂
Oh, that’s an easy one. It’s because they are dead that they become fun. We can then imagine how much fun they might have been.
That’s so true. Biggs is a great example, even though it would’ve been nice if he had more screen time.
B/c they cost to much to hire? Who knows.
Good question.
What is fun is to look up former roles and watch the actors/actresses that played those roles. For example, the role that a young Julian Glover took in one of “The Avengers” episodes.
I’ve never liked the idea of just arbitrarily killing people off in books/tv/movies. So, I never put it in my fiction books or stories. I particularly dislike the idea of expendable characters that so many writers use in order to show how dangerous something is, like the Red Shirt phenomenon in Star Trek. Gack: seems like the idea was “it’s dangerous, so we gotta expend someone.” Yes, life has dangers and the unknown is the unknown, but some of that stuff bordered on silly. Stepping on a stone and blowing up in “the apple”? Instead of taking precautions in Obsession or blasting the area to rubble with the ship’s weapons after the beastie showed up, we’ll just have groups of security go around to get eaten. (Yes, the phasers/torpedoes probably wouldn’t have worked, but at least they’d have learned that before letting the ship get invaded.)
Unfortunately, Ozzel’s case was something that has happened in a general sense, with commanders like Zhukov actually having done stuff like that. Some 230+ Soviet generals and admirals were shot during WWII, often simply for being unlucky like Ozzel was. Other militaries of the time normally sacked people or demoted them when they screwed up or had bad luck, but the Soviets usually put them in penal suicide batallions, shock armies, or just shot them.
People tend to forget just how ruthless the Stalin regime was, and it all started with the man at the top. Stalin himself.
Cant he just force-choke it to death with his forciness?
Good point… but why would he want to kill it?
Exactly! A fly that doesn’t need to breath is a BREAKTHROUGH in science!
Plus it is pretty fun to watch.
If a fly can live in space I think it deserves to live.
Choking cuts off the oxygen supply, so, if the fly is able to survive the vacuum of space, what exactly would choking it accomplish?
“There’s a fly on the other side of the glass.” My face hurts. It hurts from the tense laughing of reading that line. Do you think getting his arm lopped off messed with his visor’s visual circuitry? Or perhaps he’s just a little “out there”? Maybe it’s really debris just stuck to the window. Or perhaps it’s some sort of “space fly”? Either way, huhhhhh, will the humor NEVER stop? I trust not.
By the way, the off-kilter Death Star and pasted-in Tie Fighter are cute sight gags. Feels really thrown together in a good way.
Thanks Scott. So glad it worked for others. I’ve been keeping this one for over a year.
Death… Star?
Yeaaaaahhhh. I meant Star Destroyer. I think I’ve always used the wrong labels since I’ve first watched the movies, even though I know what I meant.
In a way this makes Vader even more frightening.
LOL. Yeah… now you mention it, it kind of does seem a bit creepy. I can’t wait to see how our version of TESB will be received.
My son and I sometimes sing a jaunty ‘Imperial March. a la Peppa Pig:
“Bing bong bing, bingly bong, bongly bing!”
I say “That doesn’t make Darth sound very funny does it?”
“Oh, actually, if VADER entered a room singing that it probably WOULD be damned scary!”
Great start can’t wait for more!!! Keep it up!!
God, I love this!!! You guys are my absolute favorite 😀 I can’t wait for the next!!!!
Thanks! Sometimes random wins.
*drools*
I do that with my pickup truck, there will be a fly or a ladybug hanging on for dear life. A fly on the outside of the glass on a super star destroyer would garner my complele attention. I wonder what would happen when they hit the hyperdrive.
If a fly can survive being in the cold, cold vacuum of space, i don’t think the hyperdrive will faze it.
Oh, and where the heck is my custom icon? I registered, darn it!
It’s brain will exit via its arse?
AAARGH you broke the band up.
Now well never see the Sgt. Pepper Album!
Or will we?
Wasn’t there a crazy theory about Star Wars “space medium” not being completely a vacuum, so the fighters could do their WW2 manoeuvers and we have the nice sound of space ships soaring by? So the fly could be okay. Frozen, but okay. 😉
Oh, BTW. Vader seems to be completely bonkers with the pursuit of the rebels and wasting time on a fly at the same time. That is VERY scary it lets him look like a bipolar psychopath. Uhm… not that he was very stable from the beginning…
Decaf would just make matters worse, I bet.
I was kinda wondering, random question, since there are multiple versions of T.Gatto’s milk cartons, is there maybe a chance of finding a place to put all of them together instead of having to root through to find the one we want?
Yeah. Simply click on the Downloads menu option above and you’ll find them all there. 🙂
ILM legend Grant McCune just died at 67.
Vader is obviously NOT stupid enough to waste a Forciness Choke on a fly, even one that lives in vacuum (or aether). Clearly, he’s taking his time to summon a really really big kinetite (or restrained energy globe).
Wow, great job drawing the first square!
Or should I say rectangle?
I’ve never seen it, though i did catch the stormtrooper hitting his head in New Hope.
Shit was so funny, I rewound it OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
And i never caught it on VHS, it was only when i was watching it on spike once, that i saw it-heard it, rather.
Fridge horror:
The fly is on the other side of the glass.
THE FLY IS IN THE VACUUM. JUST CHILLING.
HOW.
HOW?!?