Blue Milk Special

Captain Needa’s Apology

Blue Milk Special — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:29:30 +0000

Happy Birthday, George Lucas! Thanks for Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Willow and those Ewok movies. American Graffiti? Yeah, I guess on behalf of the people for whom that film means something, thanks for that too. Have a wild party at Skywalker Ranch. We’ll be there in spirit. A younger version of us, CGI-ed in at the last minute, that is!

I had been waiting for so long to get to this strip. A slightly more original way for Needa to make his exit vs the often played execution. Don’t forget, you can view next week’s strip by clicking on the image to the left. Two clicks and you will cast your vote for BMS (you can vote for multiple webcomics on the same day, so spare us a click if you think we’re worth tapping that mouse button twice).

Want to see an exclusive Vader & IG-88 Blue Milk Special strip? That’s right, starring IG-88, the droid who looks like his head was stolen from behind the bar of Mos Eisely Cantina… Read on…

Well, here’s your chance to see a strip that is exclusively for a noble cause: raising money towards the family fund for Emily’s Brain Surgery in Boston. If you donate $5 dollars or more to help this ten year old girl with debilitating Moyamoya disease, and you include the words “Blue Milk Special” as a comment with the donation, her mother, Carey will email you a thank you including this exclusive IG-88 Blue Milk Special strip. Your money helps a child and gets you an exclusive BMS strip. How about that?

Even if you can’t afford to make a small donation please share this appeal with friends to help spread the word so we can make a difference.

Boba, bounty hunting genius…

Blue Milk Special — Mon, 07 May 2012 04:00:22 +0000

We spent Free Comic Book Day as guests at The House of Pop Culture, our local comic shop in Waldorf, Maryland. Leanne churned out 20 or more sketches, including inked commissions. She will no doubt be posting photos of some of these over on her Twitter page. We gave a brief interview for the new House of Pop Culture Podcast. We will let you know when that episode goes live. There may also be some photos to share. Store owner, Brett reports his best day of sales ever! We hope the added Forciness was a factor. We had a great time and hope to have earned some new readers. A special thank you to Eric (Rebel Legion / 501st member) for stopping by in the afternoon to say hi and get a cool GI Joe commission from Leanne.

Almost forgot! Thanks for the mention on Distracted By Star Wars. It’s a great Tumblr site full of great Star Wars humor and images. We welcome reviews from anyone with a website and will gladly link back to you. So, let us know if you have a review of Blue Milk Special, or a mention, that you have posted somewhere. Thanks!

I have closed the “Did Luke wash while on Dagaboh?” poll. The results are decidedly in favor of a dirty Luke visiting Bespin. We shall keep this in mind. The new poll is one for all of our readers. How often do you visit Blue Milk Special?

Want to see an exclusive Vader & IG-88 Blue Milk Special strip? That’s right, starring IG-88, the droid who looks like his head was stolen from behind the bar of Mos Eisely Cantina… Read on…

Even if you can’t afford to make a small donation please share this appeal with friends to help spread the word so we can make a difference.

Let’s go see Lando!

Blue Milk Special — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:17 +0000

!!UPDATE May 4th, 2012!!

I forgot to mention that we’re going to be at the House of Pop Culture comic shop in north Waldorf, Maryland on May 5th (Saturday) from 10am for FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. There will be sketches and signings and epic Forciness. If you live in Southern Maryland, or in the surrounding region, we would love to meet you.

Thank you! We managed to reach and maintain the rank of 22 in the Top 100 webcomics for April! That’s 4250+ votes at the time of writing! Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote for us daily.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 is the debut of next week’s preview, which we held back from Monday (being that it was still technically April and the new voting month begins today). Be sure to vote and get us off to a good start for May’s Top 100 webcomic race!

We also have another exclusive to tell you about! Yeah, it was a busy but productive weekend! Okay… Want to see an exclusive Vader & IG-88 Blue Milk Special strip? That’s right, starring IG-88, the droid who looks like his head was stolen from behind the bar of Mos Eisely Cantina… Read on…

Even if you can’t afford to make a small donation please share this appeal with friends to help spread the word so we can make a difference.

There is no “try”

Blue Milk Special — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:00:03 +0000

If your child was diagnosed with Moyamoya disease and had to undergo brain surgery on both sides of her head, what would you do? Everything in your power to help ensure that surgery happens and the best you can do to manage during the difficult recovery, right? Carey Kelly-Feldman is a Rebel Legion Member, and she is also the mother of ten year old Emily Feldman who is in this very situation. Carey has set up a GoFundMe fundraising campaign: Emily’s Brain Surgery in Boston and I want to ask any of you that can spare even a small amount, to contribute towards their goal of raising $5000 to help the family through this.

Even if you can’t afford to make a small donation please share this appeal with friends to help spread the word so we can make a difference.

Carey is one of the funniest ladies on Facebook, often a source of inspiration and humor for Blue Milk Special with a never ending supply of Star Wars memes. Please help out this fellow fan. As Yoda says in today’s strip, “Do, or do not. There is no try.”

Emily’s Brain Surgery in Boston

My daughter Emily age 10 was diagnosed with Moyamoya disease and due to undergo brain surgery on both sides of her head in June 2012. Emily is facing this very bravely. She is however becoming noticably worse and is now having trouble walking. Our family is bracing for a financial blow as we are expecting medical costs, travel and lodging expenses and lost wages as mom takes time off to care for her post op. Any amount is appreciated! Thanks! Love all of you!

Please visit “The Chronicles of Moyamoya” on Facebook for Emily’s Story.

Concentraaaaate!

Blue Milk Special — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:00:18 +0000

Whenever I see this scene, I can’t help but feel Artoo Detoo is responsible for distracting Luke. Here you get the merciless BMS take on the “concentraaaaaaaaaate!” scene. We had a lot of fun working on next week’s strip, which is available to preview at TopWebComics.com. We hope you enjoy! And don’t forget to keep voting. We are amazed at how well we’re doing thanks to everyone’s support.

The big announcement for the day is that the comments feature has been restored. No, we don’t have a six season deal and a movie in the works. *pout* For better, or for worse, I am opening Blue Milk Special back up to our visitors to leave comments. While Facebook has been a nice backup for connecting with readers, I think it is important to maintain a more direct sense of community here on the site. Comments will continue to be moderated before approval. So, you are all very welcome to begin commenting again on this and subsequent strips.

One suggestion I have for discussion is what our readers would like to see Blue Milk Special do in the near future? Not necessarily relating to plot, but what more could we do with Blue Milk Special as a project?

I have closed the previous poll, which asked “Excluding Boba Fett, who is your favorite bounty hunter?” The new poll, “Did Luke wash while on Dagobah?” is now open for voting and voter feedback.

IG-88 was the clear winner. Interestingly, however, Greedo’s Cousins came close to stealing second place from Bossk. Looks like people love lizards in spacesuits just a little more than the green-skinned Tetsu clan. Greedo took 4th place, followed by Dengar (I always hear “Bandages”, by Hot Hot Heat, whenever I think of that guy), and Suck-Ass… sorry… Zuckass. So mature. Although 4-LOM does not get enough love, he did receive 30 votes, and even with the possibility of vote cheating, it seems a few of you do care about that insect-android. Skorr did not score very well, despite his name. Hopefully you guys remember who he is/was from his one and only appearance in BMS, click here.

There are a few things that have stood out to me in my 33 years of existence on this amazing rock in space. My incredible best friend and wife, Leanne. Brian Cox’s amazing “Wonders” science documentaries and the score by Sheridan Tongue. The film Inception and its Hans Zimmer score. Irvin Kerschner’s The Empire Strikes Back and John Williams incredible score. Helden by Apocalyptica. Groundhog Day with Bill Murray. The Japanese Sentai parody “Akibarangers”. Etc etc… Everyone that knows me personally, knows I’m picky about what I like. But another of those things that works so well for me is Phil Custodio’s brilliant web comic “Living Room Wars“.

It simply gets better and better. While I have trouble navigating the site, in terms of keeping my place and catching up, it is always worth the effort. Phil has a really witty story that has been going from strength to strength. Starting with Luke Skywalker at Hoth base, Phil had a stroke of inspiration when he decided to include his pet cats into the photo comic. Just like Vader’s coffee mug in BMS, which just works and works and doesn’t seem to get old, Phil’s pet cats consistently win a smile when they stare at Luke like they are ready to pounce. Phil keeps the story fresh by constantly expanding and including more and more elements from other sci-fi films and toy lines. I have pimped Living Room Wars out before, but catching a few more pages of the story last week prompted me to give Phil another nod.

It is hard to get noticed and find readers when your project of love is a webcomic. BMS has been doing this for over 3 years, and admittedly, people come to us first and foremost because they already like Star Wars. In this sense, Blue Milk Special shares something in common with Phil’s Living Room Wars. Leanne and I put in what time we can make available from our often complicated lives. Phil, like us, loves playing with these universes we’ve all come to love, but in doing so he is delightfully original. The price we pay for building a story upon the back of a love like classic Star Wars is that we can’t make a living from it; that is one perk that original webcomics have the potential to achieve. So I encourage readers to leave comments and encouragement for guys like Phil. If you like what you see, then let the creator know. We NEED to hear it.

I can’t force any of you to check out Living Room Wars, I’m not Obi-Wan Kenobi after all. All I can do is tell you that I love it. You have to make the choice whether YOU will make the time to discover its charm too. It is a work of genius.

We’ve Lost Them!

Blue Milk Special — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:00:50 +0000

Poor Captain Needa. If only they had thought about placing sensors and security cameras behind the bridge. You’d think working in a 3-Dimensional environment would have made multi-angled cameras compulsory!

Thanks to everyone who is voting for us daily over at TopWebComics.com. We are back to our previous heights inside the top 30. Let’s see if we can hold that spot by the end of April, or even improve on it. Better yet, share Blue Milk Special with Star Warsy friends. That’s all the poll is about anyway. Increasing our exposure and knowing that there is still enthusiasm out there for what we’re doing with our Star Wars parody. Thanks again!

Every Monday the latest BMS strip will debut as a voting incentive at TopWebComics.com. You will be able to see the upcoming strip a week early! That means that this website will be one week behind those posted each week on TWC. All you have to do is vote. In this way we hope to attract more voting activity from our readers and push our ranking up. Make BMS count!

No Light Speed?

Blue Milk Special — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:00:04 +0000

On Monday 26, March, Dallas News.com featured us on their Pop Culture Blog in a webcomic review written by Jaron Hataway. I stumbled across the review the day after it had been posted online and so it never made it into last week’s BMS blog. As one of only a handful of reviews that BMS has received over the last three years, we could not be more grateful for the glowing praise and the “9 out of 10 score” we were given. Jaron did call me Rob, but no harm done! Thank you for the review and putting a smile on our faces.

Meanwhile, Gennady, our Russian BMS translator, has put together the following crossover incentive strip and sent it our way. We think he has done a great job.

It pairs BMS with the webcomic Modest Medusa (which Gennady also translates to Russian). The strip is a reference to this particular strip. Check out Modest Medusa if you get the chance! It has some great artwork!

We’ve found them!

Blue Milk Special — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:00:55 +0000

Yeah, I know Piett doesn’t tell Vader “we’ve found them!” while standing in the bridge pit, but if that concerns you then I’m personally very worried about your sense of humor! I had fun setting this one up and I love what Leanne did with the final panel which deserves to be a pinup of its own. We have a much larger graphic of this that we might post over on Facebook at some point.

I know that there is something(s) I was supposed to mention in this week’s blog, but so much time has gone by that I don’t remember what it was. If you needed a shout out, or whatever, just email me and I’ll revise this blog post. Sorry about being forgetful, but life gets busy sometimes.

TK-8008 Strikes Back!

Blue Milk Special — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:00:06 +0000

Before you think I’m just being stupid here, Mantyhose is a real thing. Heard about it on my way to work a couple weeks ago on WTOP radio. Here’s the article. Mandalorian Mantyhose would be a great idea. They could put the Mandalorian logo on the stockings. Would I wear it? Probably not. All that hair on my legs probably wouldn’t make stockings very comfortable. Besides, I’m not quite that metrosexual!

No disintegrations…

Blue Milk Special — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:00:17 +0000

Thanks to our friend, Kevin Conn, for contributing to today’s strip. I’m running a bit behind on the blog entry. Yesterday and Monday were very busy for both Leanne and myself. I had my first physical therapy evaluation, post surgery and then stepped in a Sarlac Pit at work. I am recovering very slowly–an almost imperceptible rate–but determined not to lose what we’ve spent three years building here… an audience! We, here at Blue Milk Special Headquarters, are endeavoring to keep the blue milk flowing once per week. We hope to bring more nutritious goodness by way of regular Monday updates. However, we do need a little help…

To this day, TopWebComics has been the most rewarding way of exposing our work to new readers. Starting this week each new BMS strip will debut as a voting incentive at TopWebComics.com. You will be able to see the upcoming strip a week early! That means that this website will be one week behind those posted each week on TWC. All you have to do is vote. In this way we hope to attract more voting activity from our readers and push our ranking up.