Didn’t think we’d be back so soon, did you? Well, the truth is, we’re not back. This is a special treat for our regular readers who are missing us during our hiatus. We will be taking an extra week off next week as well. We will put up one more strip next week as a prologue to the Holiday Special (don’t forget we are doing the whole Bea Arthur and Wookiee family portion of the Holiday Special too). The Holiday Special will start full blast on July 5th and should wrap up by the end of the month.

Something should be said about Admiral Ackbar making his first teaser appearance in the strip. It was never our intention to go the obvious route with Ackbar, and yet his catch phrase of “it’s a trap!” and “firepower of that magnitude!” are essential to his wide appeal. People never seem to get tired of quoting his famous and brief lines. There’s also not much you can really do with them in terms of puns that hasn’t been done by someone else already. This is the case with “It’s a frapp!” We’re not laying claim to this pun as I saw it elsewhere, but it’s relevance to Vader’s BMS coffee addiction, and the way in which we incorporated it into the visual gag of tackling Vader makes this stand on its own.

Leanne came up with a catch phrase for Blue Milk Special’s Admiral Ackbar, which is an evolution of the already well known “trap” gag, namely “my Calamari sense is tingling!” Expect to see Ackbar and his Spider-Man-like heightened senses again in the future. Fortunately we also have some soap opera drama in store for Ackbar with Mon Mothma in the future too, so there’s more to the BMS Ackbar than a catch-phrase gimmick. To see the Mon Mothma relationship we will unfortunately have to wait until The Return of the Jedi rolls around.

Since we are not updating regularly for the next week, take a moment to check out John White’s Star Wars: Age 9. He has relaunched the website and the comic (first drawn when he was 9 years old back in the late 70s). You can now comment on the cute and oftentimes bizarre adaptation of the film that started it all. Seriously, check it out and join his Facebook fan page. Spare his site a vote on TopWebComics.com if you get a minute and help him increase the exposure of his site to new readers.

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