Lando’s deal…
Thank you to everyone who has donated in support of Emily. They met and surpassed their fundraising goal of $5,000 last week! The 10 hour brain surgery should take place later this week. We wish Emily and her family the best, but we know the Forciness is strong with this one!
Happy Father’s Day to Darth Vader! We hope Luke and Leia sent him a card. Oh… wait… did I just spoil Empire and Return? Oops… You know, it does make me wonder who Vader looks to on Father’s Day. Would the Emperor count as a sort of substitute father figure? Sounds like an avenue BMS should explore! What do you think?
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I love how Vader is always holding a cup of coffee or whatever, and drinking it through a straw. How in the hell does he drink through his respirator?
Maybe he uses the force to pull the coffee up the straw and through the filters?
But how does he keep the coffee from going down his trachea? Does the filter do that too?
WTMI Vader/Lando! 😉
Best wishes to Emily!!!
Good Stuff with “I Hate Earth” Kevin. 🙂
Happy Father’s Day Dads, I’m still recovering from all the food I ate. ;=
I thought the prequels hinted pretty strongly that it was, in fact, Palpatine that ‘fathered’ Vader.. of course, he did it through the Force, god-like, rather than the more traditional way.
Hooray for Patricide.
Yeah… when it comes to the Prequels, I’m a little rusty on my knowledge. However, this info is all the justification I need to pursue that path in the future of BMS. 🙂
Mwa-ha-ha. >: )
That’s the way I’ve always understood it.
Palpatine’s plan in the prequels is ridiculously complicated with a thousand points of failure. I’m never sure if he meant for the Jedi to find Anakin, or if he stashed him on Tatooine in the hope no one would find the kid until Palpatine came back for him.
I think the writer was trying too hard… hence all the trade federation stuff. Kid’s don’t care and I certainly don’t. Star Wars wasn’t complicated because it didn’t need to be and it profited from that. 🙂
So, Palpatine is technically Luke and Leia’s grandfather…
As I understood it, finding Anikin was a fluke and Palpatine just kinda went with it because he knoew of the prophecy of the chosen one as much as the Jedi did.
This is all news to me. Wow. I always thought there really wasn’t a father, that it was some sort of virgin birth with extra Forciness.
In episode I, Shmi says, “There was no father, that I know of…I carried him, I gave him birth…I can’t explain what happened.”
But, that doesnt rule out the possibility of remote empregnation from an elderly Sith Lord. Or, if she DID have some “quality time” with Palps, she may really regret it and never want to speak of it, therefore making her aforementioned quote a statement of denial.
Not a sermon, just a–Oh, wait that was a sermon. 😛
LOL. I like the idea she got drunk and slept with Palpatine and then made up the story about immaculate conception as a lame attempt to preserve her dignity. 😉
Sounds like a BMS strip to me!
Hah! Even better! Intoxication didn’t occur to me for Anakin’s conception, but it makes sense–who wants to sleep with Palps anyway?
It would be great to see a Prequel/EU themed BMS strip, and I suppose it could be a flashback or something so it doesn’t have to stray too far from OT.
I like this idea so much, we might just do this strip at least.
Cool. Glad I could help with an idea. 🙂
According to starwars.wikia.com, Anakin has been generated by the Force itself as a kind of “counter-measure” against the midi-chlorians tampering by Darth Plagueis, Darth Sidious master (he even talks about it in the prequels). So, “from a certain point of view”, Darth Plagueis is Anakin’s father… And he’s been killed by the apprentice of the former, Darth Sidious who, in turn… The story repeats itself. 🙂
I don’t think I would mind having this Darth as a dad. Wait. Let me think on that awhile.
Thanks again for all your support for Emily. You are true friends!
I just hope that it all helps to make the following weeks of recovery that much easier for Emily and the family, Carey. We wish her a speedy recovery!
Keeps getting better! I always have a hard time waiting for the next comic!
Maybe Monday? (hint)
BMS Vader knows the gently application of force in just the right spot is more effective that bluster and shouted threats. He should write a book!
LOL