A Woman of Class
The above photo was sent in by BMS reader, Paul. Thanks for the great photo! We’ll be back to three strips again next week and will conclude the story arc surrounding Greedo’s cousins.
Amateurs by Jeremy Massie
Off topic for a moment, I’d like to recommend Jeremy Massie’s newest comic project, Amateurs. I’m really excited about this after seeing the preview pages.
Being a super-hero used to mean something: Saving lives, being an inspiration… These days, having super powers is just considered a way to become rich and famous. AMATEURS is the story of four teenagers who are sick of it all, and are looking to bring some honor back to being a hero.
Jeremy is the writer of the super-hero slice-of-life book, Deadbeat, published by Alterna Comics and available on Amazon.com. I don’t want this to sound like a sales pitch because I am genuinely a fan of Jeremy’s work and I think it will appeal to some of our readers for the humor and alternate take on a well known genre. You can find more info at the FaceBook page.
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Good thing you put in the caption that Spaghetooine is not Tatooine.
Now in years to come you will have saved us the endless droning on, about what you were attempting to portray, that dooms all aspects of the Star Wars Expanded Universe to endless discussion and arguement.
I still think you need a Wookepedia page, anyone know how to set one up?
That’s a great idea, T. Being a wiki, I’d assume anyone can sign up and make a page, but I really don’t know.
I’ve already started drafting a fully develpoed article. I’m kindly asking for any Wookieepedians to wait until the task is completed.
BMS- I am among the technically challenged, but will make an attempt to set up a page if you have no objection.
Also can I have your permission to use sample artwork, and information taken from this and related pages (history, sample strips etc…)?
Any computer literate fans out there have any advice?
Oh you definitely have our permission and we’d be honored. Good luck and a massive thank you in advance.
If you need any specific art at high quality, just let us know. You can use whatever you like from the site. 🙂
OMG you put my pic on the site, I’m so ridicuously proud of that! 🙂
A BMS Wookiepedia page would be a good idea.
I’ve enjoyed the Spaghettooine interlude just as much as the parodying of the films. I think you should pop a few more of your own original stories in between the movies
Having done stuff on wookipedia and know others who do stuff regularly its best to map out off line what you want and have it arranged. Also check the guidelines thoroughly on what to do and what can and what cannot be on the site. BMS doesn’t need a black mark. The sad fact is that someone will try to do right by bms and wookipedia can and will hold it against bms. The horror stories I know about the wooki group. I’d gladly help with it as well.
T., I just realized that your comment wasn’t the only one regarding a BMS Wookieepedia article.
Regarding your most recent comment, would you mind if I took on the task? As I said before, I’ve already started drafting a fully developed article. I do have experience with wiki formatting and such, and I am familiar with the policies of this wiki and the layout of its articles. Unless anyone has an article well underway, I kindly ask that you wait until its completion (which should be by sometime late this afternoon).
BMS, before I even publish it, may I too have permission to do so? That is, of course, if T. doesn’t mind.
Thanks for all the interest guys. Yes, anyone who is willing to enter us into Wookieepedia has our permission. We can’t really contribute or do so ourselves as I don’t believe that would be right. I think and article should be written with impartiality, or at least the appearance of it, and therefore we can’t author it ourselves as it wouldn’t be very objective. I do know that T. has already written a LOT and emailed it to me for my thoughts, although I have yet to reply, I can say already, that apart from proof reading for typos, I really don’t want to be seen as having a hand in the article, so I have to keep a distance here. However, if you guys would like to share emails and exchange thoughts and ideas, then email bluemilkspecial (the contact link above) and I’ll put you in touch with each other.
Don’t worry about the article being partial. Making sure all articles impartial is a part of the sites policy.
T., if you want to make this a joint effort just let me know. I’d be really happy to collaborate with you or anyone else interested. Can you think of a way to exchange emails aside from simply posting them here? I personally don’t feel comfortable doing that.
Nate, I tried to send you an email copying Paul and T. in, but if you didn’t get it then just shoot me an email through the contact menu at the top of the page and we’ll get everyone connected up with one another.
T, N,and DJV have made contact and things are in the works. Will update as the BMS Triad moves forward. T came up with an awesome intro that I re-arranged and edited down. Gonna work on Notable Characters/Fan Favorites section. N has stuff coming for us to sift through.
Is that a disturbance in Luke’s pants? Or is that just how you draw pants?
Is the beer in Leia’s hand a reference to her drinking a can of Stella while on set?
Correct. That was a reference to the following picture.
Unfortunately I was going by memory when I did this panel and I mis-remembered it as a can of Becks. Oh well. I’m sure she didn’t limit herself to Stellas only!
Congratulations on noticing this reference. You win 20 BMS points.
Awesome, that is the picture was thinking of. Woo hoo, 20 BMS points!
Waait. They were taking the spice TO kessel? Umm. Next run, smuggling coal to Newcastle? C3P0 does refer to the spice mines of Kessel at one point, right?
Aah, right. That was after the comic was printed.
I am sure Jeremy’s work is all that, but by jolly I am soooooo booooored with superheroes. Is there really nothing else to make comics/action movies from? Like, err, parodies of old movies that are not superhero movies 😛 And the current trend of Let’s Take This Crap Seriously and be All Broody is not really endearing it to me either.
Holy crap! I appreciate the honesty of your opinions, but perhaps I should have included a preface establishing just how different of a perspective Jeremy brings to the genre. While Leanne and I have a third project on the backburner which is a manga, non-Super Hero comic, our more immediate project is Once Upon a Caper. I’ve tried to avoid revealing the big twist in the preview issue, but it’s essentially the only thing that might make someone as jaded toward the genre as yourself give it a shot. It’s funny I should read your comment today, as last night I was talking to friends and realized I probably HAVE to reveal the “catch” to Sovena’s powers for people to understand what truly makes the book unique. It’s the little girl Claudia from Interview with a Vampire meets Super Heroes. Yes, the catch is that Sovena is 11 years old, and has been stuck that way ever since she became a super hero in the 1950s in Russia. She has never been able to mature hormonally and has had to watch her friends and crush’s grow old around her. She is a multi-dimensional character, already unique for being the Superman of her world, but in the form a little girl. That’s what Once Upon a Caper is built around. The character of Sovena. But I try not to spoil that reveal for my readers. Now, I realize I essentially have to in order for people who are tired of the same old super hero genre material.
Why write about super heroes? Trust me, I want to write other genres and plan to, but finding success in the American market outside of super heroes is even tougher and I felt I had a spin on the genre with Once Upon a Caper that was new, fresh, entertaining and deep… and most importantly worth telling. Perhaps if our readers like what we do with BMS and want to support us, they will give my Once Upon a Caper a shot. But I wouldn’t recommend Jeremy’s work if it hadn’t gotten my pass mark for being interesting and new. Jeremy has been supportive of my work and as a friend, how can I not support him too?
Not to jump on the bandwagon, but I read an article once, from one of my favorite people in the comic Industry (Mark Evanier). He and Sergio Aragones tried to publish a non-superhero comic and no one would do so, because the publishers said no one would read them. Eventually that idea became My favorite print comic of all time “Groo the Wanderer”.
Marvel eventually picked up the title, followed by Image and Dark Horse, but only after the small press put the first story out, and it did OK.
I think the problem is with publishers trying to do the same thing TV networks do with prime time sitcoms, force creative energy and talent into a narrow predetermined genre.
This is exactly why I prefer small press and web comics over DC and Marvel. You actually have a chance or reading what the artist intended.
To me, It’s not about super heroes so much as it is about creative control. Super-hero comics just take a beating because no big company will rick damaging the cash cows of a major comic character hero, so the good stories don’t get told.
Just my opinion.