A Ghostly Vision
Artist DaveCT has illustrated this beautiful poster for the benefit of the Christchurch and Japan quake victims. You can donate to help the Tsunami and Quake relifef in Japan by clicking here. Likewise you can still make donation to help Christchurch, New Zealand as well.
There has been some talk in the last blog post’s comment thread that the Wampa was “cute”. Some even said that the Wampa was too cute to kill. Well I didn’t plan to show its dismemberment as I didn’t feel particularly inspired to find any humor in that scene (I already have a running gag with Ponda Baba / Walruss Man) which gives readers the opportunity to assume that Luke escaped without the need for intense violence. 🙂 You can thank me later.
Re: Today’s strip. A shame Obi-Wan had to pick a near death moment to appear before Luke. I mean, what is up with visions so often occurring to people that are near death or in a bad way? Hard to take someone very seriously when they tell you that their divine vision just happened to coincide with being delirious!
So, anyway… Obi-Wan uses his energy to appear before Luke so that he can tell him to get his ass to Dagobah. Well, that’s quite a big deal. I mean, being dead and choosing to appear visually in front of your ex-pupil is fairly dramatic. On top of that, telling Luke to find a hermit-like Jedi master on some far flung swamp world is quite drastic. I would have thought that you would choose a moment when the subject is at their most sober and make your message as lucid as possible. Appearing at this desperate moment the chances are fairly slim that Luke will remember the ghostly vision or even live to act upon it.
Fortunately for Obi-Wan, his poor timing and vague instructions are remembered by Luke and acted upon! Now that’s faith… and a touch of curiosity.
Let’s just hope the BMS version of Han Solo can actually find Luke in the middle of a ghastly blizzard so the dude can have a nice Bacta bath and some plastic surgery! 😉
Good one!
I suppose it adds a bit of an edge for the audience. We wonder if he was just imagining it. Later when he crash-lands in the swamp he questions his going on what seems like a wild goose chase.
It could have been an even better plot device if Vader had been shown to send ‘fake’ apparitions or messages to him previously.
Good thing luke is such a master scout, that he will be able to un-erringly pick a safe spot, on Dagobah, to crash land safely within walking distance of Yoda. I mean it’s a fracking planet and he again (like in SOTME) picked the perfect location to crash.
That would have been like Indiana Jones accidentally falling into the well of souls, right on top of the Ark of the Covenant, while visiting Egypt on holiday.
I love how, in most Science Fiction, entire planets are always treated like a place you can just drop by and see who you want in a jiffy. Star Trek and Star Gate are probably the worst at this (even though I love both series anyway).
Dr. Who at least has the excuse of a ship that can travel anywhere and any-when, so with him it’s more plausible.
Yeah, and the fact that Dagobah is a swamp planet. How can the whole planet be swamp. I don’t know, seems oversimplified to me. 😉
Also, in the case of Doctor Who, I’ve always had this theory that the TARDIS knows what it’s doing… and / or is being manipulated.
Wasn’t it supposedly that the Force guided him to the right spot?
An ice plant I could understand if it was too far from it’s sun, a desert one if it was too close maybe – but then how could either of them have an oxygen atmosphere? Where does the O2 come from?
Excellent point about oxygen. Wow. Never thought about it until now.
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If the force is so great at guiding Luke, why does he always crash, and why didn’t it say “hey Luke there is a huge Wampa coming to eat you”!
I think “the force did it” is the official Lucas explanation for anything we’ve realised makes no sense. I can accept a certain degree of that with willing suspension of disbelief, but the single environment planets are just terrible science. An ice planet most likely wouldn’t be habitable.
I suppose the EU has an explanation though… like a long time ago, an advanced civilization inhabited the planet Hoth and built mighty oxygenators and technobabble. Today, the oxygen rich atmosphere is one of the only relics. LOL. I suppose there will also be some ruins inside an ice mountain or something and some sort of remnants of this ancient fallen civilization… probably with a pet giant monster who the heroes that discover this culture, will be forced to do battle with. It so easy to write this crap.
My theorys are that either it was a military post for a war a long, long, long time ago or it was teriformed unsuccessfully.
if you go to the webbsite of the upcoming Star wars: The old Republic (about 3700 years BBY), an entry on hoth says it was a major part of the republic / sith empire COLD (exuse the pun) war. they will probably blame it on that if anyone asks .3
Cold war…. hah… so subtle. 😉
http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/planets here’s a link. several classic planets such as tatooine, correllia , hoth and alderaan makes an appearance in ToR
In the case of Hoth, I had the impression the planet was in the last throes of dying. Perhaps the asteroid field that kept tossing meteorites down to the surface is the remnant of some cataclysm that brought about an ice age. The tauntauns and the wampas are the last megafauna left on a planet that in a couple of centuries will be barren except for hibernating bacteria, or will recover from its global ice age.
I blame Star Trek II for getting me to think like this. “You lie, on Ceti Alpha Five there was life, a fair chance!” “THIS IS CETI ALPHA FIVE!”
I was in a shop at the weekend and saw the original Kenner toy for Luke in his Hoth gear, still boxed. £100.
Hating on u if u didn’t buy it -3-
But seriously, did you buy it? :3
I didn’t buy it – I didn’t have a spare £100 going – and I couldn’t choose between Hoth Luke, Forest Moon Leia or R2-D2!
I can’t afford any more vintage carded figures, but some of the do-it-yourself re-carding kits are sweet (check EBay).
I’m thinking of re-carding some of my vintage stuff, and even made BMS cards for the first 21 figures (posted on the BMS Face book page or on my BlueMIlkCarton Face Book page). They could use a higher resolution so I will clean them up when I get the chance.
Now get back to making Penguin Comics, I wanna see how the heroes get into the Throne Room and beat the Evil Penguin!
Oh my God – I’m just imagining some of my weird drawings, realised in 3D and then packaged!
Neil Baker suggested the ‘Patrick Mower-Luke’ for a milk carton by the way T. I must get it over to you.
Penguin comics? Fascinating Captain T. Is it something I missed on your Facebook page? Ok – going there nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…………
I pimped out Penguonia right here on BMS many months ago, John! You MUST read the blog posts. You can’t just be here for the pretty pictures! 😉
It must be one I missed – I do indeed read the posts.
Sure………………………………….. I’m just teasing you, John. 😉
It’s an EPIC!
I’m drawing, I’m drawing! Well actually I’m typing at a keyboard at the moment, but I’m getting there…
Also, guess who stepped off the sub onto the station? A girl using a PINK iphone! AND it looked like she was chatting/sms’ing, the way she held it! I swear, if she would have had her hair in buns, I would’ve soiled myself…
Jesus Al – I had to re-read that: “looked like she was chatting/sms’ing” In public?!?!?!
Could it be that this is some new youth term I’m too old too have heard of? Sort of – sex whilst texting?
O_O
SMS is a messaging program, a chat room. There is a term for what you mentioned,”sexting”.
Chattingsm sounds better
HOW the heck could ANYONE misunderstand “chatting /SMS:ing” for such a thing? xD
Seriously John, to qoute the character Rochelle from valve’s Left 4 Dead 2 (hey, the short-term everyone uses for it i nwriting could be sued as an astromech droid’s name! L4D2!) : “What’s going on inside that head of yours!?” 😀
Crap, typed too fast again, I meant “used”, not that someone on Lucasart would have Valve sued for the similarities xD
Haha, now I really want to see Biggs try to imitate this somehow.
Or Biggs saving Luke from the Wampa, even though he basically saved himself, then Han and the whole Tent-In-A-Tauntaun thing….
Hey Rob, is there a way to purchase this poster? Sorry if I misunderstood, but the links in the beginning look like they only donate to Japan. I know that sounds horrible, but I would love to purchase one and if the proceeds go to Japan, even better!
Yes. Click on the link for DaveCT’s name. First paragraph. That’s his site, I believe.
Here
All this talk of Obi-Wan and sobriety can’t help but make me think of Adam & Joe…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEBCRbUnbUc&feature=related
I’ll be hearing Ben as a Glasweigian drunk for the remainder of BMS…
Well done Dan. i thought no one remembered A&J anymore.
Genius like that is hard to forget…