Come in, Castle Vader
New to Blue Milk Special? Start reading from the beginning!
The 501st New England Garrison has some very enterprising and ambitious members as you’ll see in the video below. Meet their Jabba the Hutt puppet–the crazy idea of 501st members Mark and Brian. Their life-size Jabba puppet has gained a bit of attention on YouTube–and deservedly so!
He’s become so popular that Blue Milk Special now joins a number of websites, blogs and tweets in mentioning him. Apparently this deluge of internet hits was enough to get the NEG’s site shut down! Wait a minute… that’s not what we’re trying to do! Anyway, check out the the 501NEG’s Jabba the Hutt website and “like” their Facebook page while you’re at it.
Blue Milk Special passes 1000 fans on Facebook!
Speaking of Facebook, thank you to everyone who helped us pass the milestone of 1000 fans. I always feel weird about people on Facebook turning it into some sort of popularity contest, but this was really a long time coming for us. There are a great deal of Star Wars fan pages on Facebook and many of them well over 1000 (including other fan creations like ourselves). Having taken so long to really build a following, it’s nice to have the feeling that we might not be as awful as we sometimes think. I’m not kidding either. When you’re writing something that YOU think is funny, there’s always the fear that you’ll be the only one laughing.
The Geeks of Doom blog site (also with their own Facebook fan page) wrote a review about Blue Milk Special which you can read on their site. We haven’t had many reviews and its always a thrill to read one which doesn’t tear us to pieces for our somewhat unorthodox and chronological parody of the films and spin-off material. Thanks Geeks of Doom!
Damn in the last couple days you got another 20 or so on Facebook !
On a same what unrelated (to the strip) what the hell are those little silver things on there uniform for ?
They are security keys. Which is why only the officers and other high ranking members such as moffs have them.
And Vader is BACK! And in top form! Just can’t get enough of BMS Vader hehe.
so… the over at the last one…. was that meaning over as in this conversation is over…
or… was it just like the previous overs…?
By the way… funny strip! ^_^
Shiny, a longer strip!
Keep up the good work
FYI: ‘Over and Out’, the common mistake with military radio communications. ‘Over’ means I’m done talking and require a response. ‘Out’ means I’m done talking and the total communication is complete as well. The initiator of the transmission is the person who is supposed to call ‘out’ when the communication is finished.
Hey, you seriously think Vader… particularly OUR BMS Vader gives a damn about protocols? 😉 Good info though. The original upload this morning just ended with Vader saying “over” but I added “over and out” hastily after another reader pointed it out.
I’ve been following this comic for a while now, and only now did I really pay attention to who the authors of the comic are. So let me ask you, Rod, are you the “Rod Hannah” of the late, great Zartan’s Domain from back in the ancient times?
uh… yeah… but let’s keep that on the down low. 😉
Pardon me. You’re Rod Hannah of the still kicking Blue Milk Special. Must have been confusing it with my site, which continues to exist, long after that fictional site I mentioned above would have existed. 🙂
(Don’t worry, I doubt it’s even in any web archives at this late date!)
I once bumped into a fan at a comic convention who knew who I was just by my name, which was weird… especially considering that it is flattering to be remembered for ZD, but at the same time tinged with not so great memories that shook me out of communal fandom and have kept me distant from any fandom ever since. Loooooooong story. 🙂 I also bumped into Dave Thornton at a show once. That was unexpected and cool.
But… yeah… James! Did you have all the comic reviews? Is that still alive? I miss Web 1.0 days.
Yup, my site’s still going strong, (old) comic reviews and all. (Click on my name above to head to the page.) And you may recognize a significant portion of a certain shape-shifter’s bio page.
Just checked it out. I forgot your useless knowledge extended far beyond Joe. Judging by the extent of your site I’m going to be really slow in getting new strip updates done for BMS for the next week or two! 😉 Nice work!
Haha, yes. The knowledge is useless but varied. To see how far it goes, just search for me on the Wookieepedia… 🙂
And beware. My site now includes the non-Marvel Joe stuff, too!
I may not be a Facebook Fan (not actually having an FB account), but you can still count me as a fan!
I love the comic, though I think I liked the ending better with Vadar just saying “over”. I like to think of him standing there, sipping his coffee, saying “over” after all the boring bits, waiting for his minion to tell him some of the GOOD gossip. Like how Tarkin was cheating on his wife or how there are some awesome cookies in the breakroom. : )
I don’t think you have to worry too much about people “getting” your humor or laughing along.
You guys are great!
(I think this is the issue I came in on when I started reading! I’m almost caught up!!)
Re: dropping a tangible source of the Force in favour of a spiritual one.
…then he f*ked it up by introducing midichlorians. Just about everything else I can forgive him for, but not that.
That, and subbing in Hayden for Sebastian Shaw at the end of RotJ, and making Greedo shoot (first), and for totally bunjeef*king the interaction between Vader and the Emperor in ESB, and for deleting the line from ESB after Artoo gets spit out (“You’re lucky you don’t taste very good.”).
Yeah. That.
I am ROFL over BMS, though. Funny As HELLLLLLLL!!! Keep up the great work!
I like the touch of irony in the second to last strip.
It was all spiritual until those damn microscopic things completely ruined the magic of Star Wars.