They got away… again
Calling all LEIA fans!
We know BMS Leia is one of the most popular characters in the strip, but what is the best smoking Leia strip of all time (so far)? Which do YOU think is the best? Any nominations? Time to discuss! Also, if you’re a big Leia fan perhaps you can help one of our fans track down a copy of a photo? See below…
UnderScoopFire, the official judge for the Geekie Awards (for indie creators and artists) just pimped out Blue Milk Special on his blog. Looks like someone liked the talking Tauntaun. It seems our disturbing humor paid off! 😉 Check out his great blog and let him know what you think of Blue Milk Special! Maybe we can get some more recognition from our peers out there if they just knew we existed!
Okay now… It’s “help the friends of BMS day”.
Our friend Karen is looking for a high resolution version (for print) of this Princess Leia photo from Empire Strikes Back. If anyone out there can help, please let us know quickly. Perhaps if someone can find it in a book or magazine and scan it at a high resolution they could email it over. Sadly, it is not to be found in Rinzler’s Making of Empire Strikes Back book. This is for an upcoming convention where Karen will be meeting Carrie Fisher! Hey Karen, can you give her a BMS promo card? 😉
Our friend Eric (a 501st Legionary and a member of the Old Line Garrison) has started up the Awesome Movie Podcast which you should check out! The first episode covers that 80s gem, Highlander!
Our friend Kevin Conn, part of the Blue Milk Special podcast team, has started a NEW project: a series of funny G.I.Joe PSA’s! Please donate if you can.
Check out our friend Chris S W Simmons’ Star Wars: Facebook’d site. The creative members post Star Wars humor following different themes each month and are a wonderful, friendly bunch of fans to hang with.
Our friend Scott Wilkins needs donations to bring back his webcomic Citrus Comics! It has run for several years but hard economic times forced Scott to put the the fruit in the fridge, so to speak, in 2010 I hope that day never comes for Blue Milk Special! Although we don’t currently ask for donations, if you like to support other artists, I encourage you to help out Scott. He’s a wonderful guy and a long time supporter of Blue Milk Special.
Speaking of BMS webcomic buddies, our friend John White is re-running his Star Wars: Age 9 webcomic. He also has a great Alien: Age 11 webcomic. Definitely worth checking out!
What happens when your Star Wars toys unite with Star Trek, Barbie and domestic cats? Our friend Phil Custodio has a great webcomic that answers that very question! Living Room Wars is a real gem!
Our friend HelloGreedo has now debuted on Twitter and his YouTube channel has just past the 6000 subscriber mark. Congratz!
Meanwhile, on Hoth, Barry has been busy…
they say “grown man” as if it was something wrong. Bah, you don’t hear people complain had he turned it into a library stacked with mozart -3-
also i want to point out from the previois strips: I remembered watching the makings of bonus material on an ep3 dvd I borrowed from a friend many many years ago, and all aliens in that film weren’t cgi. I’m not saying they didn’t use cgi, but they didn’t just flung something togheter in an animation program: they used advanced costumes and masks controlled by remote to make facial movements to form words actors would later add in on. One example was the race on that sunkhole planet Griveous hide on. and as I stated before, the wookie rebels were just as real as Mayhew, the only difference being about 4 of them and the rest by cloning. Yes I can understand some people prefer pre-cgi, (I guess it’s the common “physical hard honest work” over “sitting at a computer” ideal, which is highly debatable, but I will refrain from doing so here) but all in all, it’s not quite fair to just brand EVERYTHING in the pt as “bleh useless half-assed cgi”. You also have to remember that ep1 & 2 were made when cgi was still in pioneering. Niether d I believe it to be fair to compare the two trilogies on such a general scale, with all the huge differencies between them. and Yes, i know some of those differences are objective facts, but just as many are subjective point sof view and interests. I wish people could enjoy reminiscing about things WITHOUT turning it into a, forgive my language, quite shitty “it was better back then” or “X was/is better, have less of Y”. It just leaves a bad taste for people like me whom are tired of hearing such thigns from both sides of the fandom. Just, please try to get along people.
I don’t know how relevant this is on this site, but i just felt I had to get it out of mys system.
wait did my last post just disapear after i made a reply to it? man that sucks. basically a plea of having people getting along and being able to reminiscing about thigns without making a debate over what’s better, and the unfairness of comparing so vastly different thigns on such a general scale.
Al, I only just woke up and approved the comment(s). Chill. All comments are moderated before being approved.
By the way, your comments have nothing to do with today’s blog. You know I’m pro Original Trilogy. I’m also the webcomic creator and site owner, so you’re talking to a wall and future comments repeating your points are going to be considered trolling. I do very VERY little to criticize more modern takes on Star Wars, so your energies would be better devoted to arguing on forums or websites that are much more opinionated than BMS. Think about it? BMS rarely takes anything except light shots at post OT Star Wars. If you like the OT as well, then come here for that and turn your defenses off for a while.
Good morning!
Good work with this Rod, that’s one of my favorite scenes in the trilogy. It builds up to it, and everyone knows Piett’s gonna get it. Even Piett knows it, he’s got that look on his face. This is everything! Vader was dropping people left and right for less getting to the same objective
Vader seems just sad though. He even looks back at where the ship warps out of sight a couple of times, as if it might come back.
I think its because his objective since the beginning of the movie was to get Luke. Now he’s met Luke and can’t tell him anything else at this point until they both have time to digest the other’s reaction. He didn’t expect his long lost son to choose death rather than to be with him. I guess that’s the beginning of DV’s path to redemption.
Good find on the Hoth Diorama; beautiful.
I’ve always enjoyed this scene in Empire as well…Vader doing the double-take, as if he can’t believe that the Falcon managed to escape; the look on Admiral Piett’s face (as if he’s seeing his life flash in front of him as he waits for the Force choke that doesn’t happen).
Looking forward to Shadows of the Empire!
I wanted to do a diorama with legos. Oh, and a bit smaller. 😉
I love Help the Friends of BMS Day! You have my thanks. You have very cool friends, and you’re cool too!
If anyone clicks on Living Room Wars, the rebel pilot there is supposed to be Wedge Antilles, who had flown an unauthorized rescue mission with R2 (who’s currently plugged into the Borg mainframe) in a diecast Kenner X-wing fighter, infiltrating a Borg cube to look for their assimilated, kidnapped Barbie friend named Mallorie, and having just discovered a Ken doll in a customized Borg outfit seems to be in charge there!
Vader does more than just choke inept leaders!
For example, he also slices fat inept in half, and chokes people who do not properly maintain the coffee machine. He has even been known to politely flip the bird to subordinates who commit minor infractions. 🙂
As for the Hoth Diorama, contrary to my wife’s opinion of my Star Wars collection, when I set up a Hoth battle in my living room, I generally take it down when I finish playing with my boys. 🙂
I did have a table top diorama of the Battle Stalingrad under construction for years (any Flames of War Gamers out there?), but my kids kept stealing the pieces and (after they broke a few) I boxed it up for the time being. It’s getting like you can’t decorate your entire house with an insane amount of meaningless frivolity without drawing attention from critics. 😉
Well, Vader did liquefy/blow apart someone earlier on one of your Death Star strips, but the whole choking thing does seem to be his primary go-to method of “discipline”. I just can’t see him writing someone up. X )
Admit it. We’d all love to be able to do something like this. I applaud the great looking explosions and smoke.
It’s no different than those people you see doing Civil War reenactments. Do what you love and never be ashamed of what you’re into.
YES! See my comment on the previous strip – the very last one.
I look at this diorama and say to myself two very important words. “why not!” Love it! (and today’s strip.)
I wonder if Vader owns a chicken.
LOL!
You cheeky bugger Neil.
Thanks for the shout out guys! And I will TOTALLY give her a card!
Welcome back from Morphine land Rod. You did well going back to work so soon after your op. A few minutes ago the site wasn’t loading so I feared that a choice had been made between you ever waking up and the comic surviving. It’s working now so watch out for the lightning bolt.
Brilliant strip today – again! And thanks so much for mentioning STAR WARS age 9 again.
I’ve been trying to fix up the code since Xmas but it’s a slow job. It’s all looking better up to the start of Chapter IV then gets a bit shaky. I’ll gradually get it all fixed up!
Have a good rest this weekend Rod, and mind that neck 😉
That is the largest version I’ve seen of that photo on the internet. Really, you *could* print that photo as is and see how it looks, as long as you change the resolution size to 300. This can be done with any photo editing software (GIMP is free to download). I would recommend ordering a photo from Officialpix for the highest quality. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to have that one, but plenty of others to choose from!
Hope you friend has fun, I actually got a little Leia sketch I did (she was smoking a cigarette, guess where I got that idea? 😉 signed a few months ago.
That’s not actually how DPI works. You can’t just change it to 300 DPI and expect the quality of the image to improve. You can down grade an image, but not upgrade it. The pixels will just be stretched. Most online images are 72 DPI and that translates to a tiny area on paper compared to on screen. Still, we might not be able to locate anything better. So far, our call for help has not turned up a high res copy. :-/
Ah, nevermind my mouth then…but I could swear that printing in 300 dpi vs. 72 gives me a better quality image on paper. It comes out the same size, but you don’t get as much of that pixellated look. Am I delusional here?
Yeah. The higher the DPI the better for printing, that’s a fact. But the original image needs to be hi-res to start with. You can’t just upscale a 72 DPI image to 300 DPI without the pixels getting stretched the quality suffering. If you have a very large 72 DPI image and you save it at a higher DPI, that will translate better than a smaller image as there is less stretching. If that makes any sense.
I understand that, I guess what I was trying to say was that the image as is would look slightly better printing it that way, if you got desperate. That’s all. Obviously, you can’t just turn it into a hi-res image without it looking awful. 🙂 Anyway, blah blah… Shame no one has come up with a hi-res version of this.
Definitely! It may be our only option. 🙂
Thanks for not posting my last several comments…
Not terribly appropriate.
I haven’t moderated any, so if some are missing then they never made it to me.
Hi. Regarding any negative comments you may have had…
I mean this in the kindest possible way: Don’t be so sensitive about tired old comments from losers with nothing better to do. You’ve explained yourself enough. Link on your FAQ to you last post about starting BMS before Robot Chicken even aired, and let that be an end to it. Delete any comments accusing you of “ripping off” a (rather unfunny) show that is itself a tired mishmash of pop culture references and the Simpsons. Just delete them. After this many quality strips, you honestly don’t need to defend yourself any more. Just let it roll off you, delete the trolls, and move on to the next joke. Your fans won’t mind at all.
I found a slightly larger picture using Google Image search. All you do is drag and drop the image into the search bar and it instantly searches for similar images, then you just click “all sizes”. Here’s a link I found:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sqV1vMklHSE/TwG9snG1KWI/AAAAAAAABnM/zqEh5SfIm90/s1600/leia.jpg
Wow! What an awesome innovation in search engines by Google! I am going to make use of this right now to help identify a lot of pictures.