Vader Phone Call #2
Yeah, we know Darth Vader should get a thermal mug with a lid, but that wouldn’t be as funny. ;=
By the way ;= is a winking Vader smiley. Just made that up.
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Darth saying “lad” is a little odd to say the least.
Seeing him spill his coffee all over himself made me think of something. After teh whole Lava thing black would be my last choice of colors I would want to wear , I mean wouldn’t that thing get hot?
I found this comic by accident and I absolutely LOVE it!!!! I read the whole thing in an hour and really enjoyed it! I’m so happy you guys are parodying the Holiday Special, since most people forgot it exists. Keep up the great work, you’ve got a new loyal fan!!! 😀
You guys need to hit a con somewhere in the south!! Somewhere close to TN would be preferable!! ;=
Vader’s reaction is both snortingly funny and quite adorable. 🙂
I think the suit is temperature controled, so it really is an optimum choice of color to make him more imposing.
And I personally always wondered how Vader learned that his son was in the rebel alliance. Since I haven’t seen any canon explanation, I must now consider the Boba Fett cartoon canon and include this scene 😛
Didn’t the emperor tell him that in episode 5 ?
Not onscreen.
Yes he did , there is a whole seen about it.
Where?
Yeah, I don’t know what you’re talking about either. They might have mentioned it, but I don’t think it was the emperor telling him. If I remember right, he’s supposed to have known from the beginning of episode 5 that Luke was his son, and that was the real reason for the probe droids.
its the “the son of anikin skywalker must not become a jedi” sceen or something. like when vader sugests turning him
that plus the fact that vader senses how strong the force is in the pilot that blows up the death star. think about it. vader can recognize obi wan’s force and later luke’s so he must figure it out fast
Even without feeling him to be his son or Boba telling him, the whole Empire sure as hell knows Luke’s name.
He blew up the Deahtstar, the Rebell propaganda ought to tell his name to the public and the Imperium ought to tread him as public enemy number one and gather all information they can.
It should definitely be well known!
gettingthe mental picture of luke standing next to boba in front of the teve-phone saying “uuhhmmm… you wanted anything?” while staring intesnly at vader, and vader jsut can’t reastrain himself so he burst his arms open and screams “MAH BOI!”
whoops, bad spelling again. hate when i do that! xD
Ok; here’s a question for fan out there.
When vader learned Luke was his son, and in the rebellion, and trying to become a jedi etc…, did he:
A – Get REALLY mad that Luke was a Traitor (and a bit of a dork).
B- Secretly feel proud that his son was making something out of himself that he, as a sith lord, had failed at.
C- Alter his, already in place, plans to overthrow the emperor, by including Luke in them.
D- Have a mix of all of the above, that he was only able to sort out in episode VI.
E- Celebrate by spending full price on a Grande Latte at Starbucks.
I’m leaning towards C, but what do you think?
Also didn’t vader notice the dorky looking kid, with a lightsaber on his belt, who was kind of close to Obi Wan, while they were on the Death Star, who previously got off of a freightor out of Tattoine? Oh well I’ll ask Lucas that one if I ever get the chance, I guess this question better belongs in one of the Bottomless Death Star pits from the 5-5-09 strip.
Well he never saw him and Ben together and when he did see him he was at a distance, I do not think he even had his lightsaber on him at the time. Also Vader did not actually see him get on the Falcon in Tattoine only some troopers at a distance and I doubt they would know what a lightsaber looked like.
I’d probably go for D
Luke didn’t have his own lightsaber at the time. THey never got to recover Obi Wan’s lightsaber either, so I actually kind of wonder where he learned to make the one he had in episode 5? Did Obi Wan manage to teach him to make one during the minimal training he recieved on tattooine?
I thought Luke DID actually have “your father’s lightsaber” as Obi-Wan gave it to him from that old chest in his hut. Luke then used to practice with on the Falcon. Obi-Wan would have used his own lightsaber against Vader on the Death Star. At least, that’s what I thought.
I always assumed that Obi Wan was using that particular lightsaber durring the duel with Vader, but I could actually be easily wrong. There’s no reason for Obi Wan to have gotten rid of his own lightsaber; even if he were afraid of it being found by imperial law enforcement, he still had Anakin’s, so why not keep both?
A closer look will dispel that idea: Luke’s first Sabre is a silver finish with a sunshade like muzzle. Obi Wan is using a black sabre with a gothic looking handguard looking muzzle.
At about 53 min. into Episode 5, its the seen where he knells don and says “What is thy bidding my master?”
I know the scene and that does not in ANYWAY come across as Vader hearing the name for the first time. This definitely doesn’t sound like their first conversation on the matter of the young Skywalker. There is also no special emphasis or reaction from Vader, which just gives the impression that the realization occurred before TESB began. Part of Vader’s zealous pursuit of the rebels from the beginning of that movie, I always took to be his personal pursuit of his son.
I always thought that it would be obvious that Luke was his son, Skywalker isn’t exactly the Smith of Star Wars last names , not to mention that he blew up the Death Star. I thought that Vader knew about him but kept it to himself because he didn’t want the Emperor to get his hands on him and thats why he didn’t have a reaction similar to this strip.
Yeah, I believe he knew earlier than TESB. I’m not sure he knew before A New Hope, but you would think he would have sensed the familiar presence in the universe (in the form of his two unknown twins). It’s possible he was aware of them before or during A New Hope, but just not who they were. Yet how he managed to interrogate Leia without getting an inkling is beyond me. I have to assume that he actually DID work it out during the torture or shortly afterwards as a result of the torture. Think about it, if a trauma like torture or seeing your home planet blown up wouldn’t stir up just a little bit of your latent Force tinglings then what the hell will? I bet Vader did know by gut feeling at least that Leia was his daughter mid-way through A New Hope. Would he have terminated her or stopped that termination? Wow! Just think of what might have gone through his head during that scene when Tarkin orders her termination! The inner turmoil while he stands, apparently impassive to all around him, but secretly wracking the depths of his feelings for answers on what to do. There’s a Star Wars Tales issue for Dark Horse with my name on it!
I’ll buy it !
From what I know Leia and Darth met before A New Hope. I had the idea that he started to suspect at that point and sometime after they traced R2-D2 and C-3PO to Luke’s aunt and uncle he knew of them and that Luke is in the rebellion.
I’ve alwasy thought it as that sentence “a presence I haven’t felt since…” wasn’t pointed to ben only, but to luke as vader felt a presence similiar to his ow, like a son’s dna has much in common with the father’s. altough he does sound a little suprise when he peeks into luke’s feeling sin ep VI and says “you’re sister..?”. He obviously new his “child” was alive, since both ani and padm’e doesn’t get that it’s twins, and that I don’t think he ever really believed it when palpatine said “it seems, in your anger, you killed her…”. since leia’s comprehension of the force was so “low” it’s probably more likely vader htought luke as is offspring and leia as a random person with possible force adebthood. yes i just maded “adebthood” up. also i think ani ever since he learned palpatine was the sith lord they had been searching for (darth sidious, or *darth hideus* as my sister invented :p) was very disgusted with him and never wanted to be his right-hand man, but he knew he had already fallen too deeply to be able to redeem himself by his own power, and needed the love bewteen father and son in order to do so, which you can realize if you read bewteen the lines in certain scenes, such as the one when luke hands himslef over to vader on endor.
also that expanded universe part that i hate about cade skywalker: they have given the name of luke’s grandson’s wife, of his own wife (cade never had one, so far) but who the heck did ben skywalkermarry, if he even did that?
For those who have read the books, in ‘I, Jedi’ it kinda explains it. Ben was on the planet not far from where Luke lived. Luke was allowed to keep his real name, whereas Leia was adopted by the royal family of Alderaan. After all this, Luke was going to apply for the Academy, under his real name. Echoing Admiral Ackbar, “It’s a trap!”. If that didn’t raise a bunch of red flags in the Empire, nothing would. Vader knew Luke had survived, but not under any name or location.
That’s two lattes that bit the dust so far. Poor Vader.
When will the senseless espressoshed CEASE?!?!
is he… is he a handsome lad?” that part cracked me up so much XD
vader spilled his latte(IT’S A FRAP), some serious shit’s goin’ down! 😀 lol’d pretty hard
special edition “empire strikes back” has a different scene than the original, i think they say something like “the one who blew up the deathstar was so full of the force he could only be the son of anakin skywalker” or something lame like that. but vader’s reaction was the same i think.
That sucks.
Vader discovered that Luke was his son in the comic “Vaders quest”.