New York Comic Con – October 8 – 10, 2010 at the Jacob K. Javits Center.

Our location at New York Comic Con this Friday, Saturday and Sunday has been revealed!!! We will be at Leanne Hannah’s table in artist alley at K-14 (row K, table 14). Click on the image of General Dodonna on the right to view or download the map with Dodonna’s instructions on how to reach us promptly and get your sketch request in early. Scroll down to see some of the great things you can get by visiting our table and keeping us from being lonely!

Re: today’s strip: Rumor has it that LucasFilm twisted the arm of Dark Horse Comics so that the Splinter of the Mind’s Eye comic adaptation would not show helmetless Stormtroopers. In the novel the off-duty Stormtroopers are chilling out, but this was written back in 1978 before George Lucas had decided that the mysterious nondescript clone angle needed to be enforced. I don’t really know if that was the reasoning or why this was important enough to change, but supposedly the decision from LucasFilm is responsible for this minor deviation from the novel. Makes for a good anecdote anyway, which probably means its actually all bullshit. Perhaps artist Chris Sprouse just messed up?

Oh… so some of you might be wondering why we threw in a Colonel Sanders reference. You know, we weren’t being completely random. We were inspired by the shock of seeing one of the fans beneath a Stormtrooper helmet during the Triumph the Insult Comic Dog segment of Conan O’Brien where he ripped into the Star Wars fans awaiting the premier of Attack of the Clones. It was one of those WTF moments that is still hilarious to this day.

If you would like to volunteer to hand out our exclusive (now in much more limited numbers) Blue Milk Special promo cards, which we are giving away for FREE at the show, then get in contact with us. We’re looking for eager ass-kicking fans who can distribute the promo cards to those good people suffering in the long lines before and during the show.

As usual we will be doing sketches and will have a new BMS milk carton available! We may have other goodies, you’ll just have to stop by and find out.

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