Vader’s Nude Meditation
Imperial Officer Eric learns there are many reasons to fear entering Vader’s personal quarters…
“Darth Vader sat naked inside his hyperbaric medical chamber. The Force was powerful, Vader thought –the Dark Side even more so– but he had never been able to use it to heal his badly burnt body to the extent that he wished. He believed that it was possible; that with sufficient meditation and training he would someday be able to rebuild himself into the man he once was. Physically, at least. He would never go back to what he had been mentally. Weak. Foolish. Idealistic.” Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry / Audio Adaptation version
One of our readers had messaged me a while back, practically begging for this scene to be included in our parody. It took us a while to be able to fit it into the continuity, but I’m glad we didn’t skip over it completely.
Peter Cushing’s 100th Birthday
May 26th, 2013 would have been Peter Cushing’s 100th Birthday. Undoubtedly one of the greatest things about the first Star Wars movie, Cushing brought a cold ruthlessness with his gentlemanly flair that made him compelling to watch. To be honest, I think the film would have been even better if he’d had a few more scenes, but I’m grateful to George Lucas for being a fan of Cushing’s work. Heck, if he hadn’t cast Cushing, I wonder if I would have discovered how great Cushing’s earlier film career was!
I remember reading that Lucas originally offered him the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi, but Cushing turned it down when he learned he would have to film in the heat of Tunisia.
it is a shame so few people know just how great some of Peter’s many movies were. He starred in many great adventure and action / horror flicks, though by the end of the 60s and early 70s he was being cast in extremely low budget slasher flicks as pop culture’s tastes shifted and demanded hot young heart throbs for it’s starring roles. Some of Cushing’s later movies were genuinely awful and a tragic waste for his wonderful charm and talent. In this sense, landing his role in Star Wars was a return to quality entertainment and stardom. He was an incredibly kind and warm person. Perhaps, his version of Doctor Who from the 1960s Dalek movies is the closest to his kindly personality. In fact, he was known as the Gentle Man of Horror.
He had his hobbies, loving his toy soldiers, which he painted and used in war games. He was an active painter and near the end of his life illustrated and wrote his own children’s book, The Boise Saga, which is now extremely rare.
Check out his early Hammer Horror work in the 1950s and his BBC Sherlock Holmes series from 1969 for some great Cushing gems…
The Abominable Snowman B&W
Curse of Frankenstein
Dracula (aka Horror of Dracula)
Brides of Dracula
The Mummy
Revenge of Frankenstein
Hound of the Baskervilles
Captain Clegg (aka Night Creatures)
Cash on Demand B&W (available on a box set of 4 films)
Doctor Who and the Daleks
Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150AD
BBC Sherlock Holmes 1969 Series
Want a chance to win the Blue Milk Special Return of the Jedi 11×17 print? The final tweaked version is below…
The competition winner will get a version without the text in the bottom left. All you have to do to win it is correctly answer our BMS Star Wars trivia question on Twitter this Wednesday 29th May and we will then randomly select a winner. Follow us on Twitter to get your chance.
awsome
I enjoy his earlier work now, but when I was a kid what was on tv was his later roles in cheesier movies. So glad for Star Wars and for home video to bring the good stuff to light.
(And I include the dr who movies as good stuff! It’s decent-budget First Doctor stories in color and there are good quality copies available — more watchable IMHO than the extant copies of the arguably better-written bbc shows. /rant)
Love today’s bms, btw. 🙂
They’re not dolls! They’re ACTION FIGURES!!!
Delivered in 20 minutes… or you’re dead. 😉
Awesome strip (literally!)
I made a t-shirt with ‘Moon of the Dark Side’ on it – did I ever show you that?
Terrific tribute to Peter – he is terribly missed.
LOL! Moon of the Dark Side! That would have been a better title for this strip! Would love to see it.
Oh, thank you thank you thank you. Now whenever I reread SOTE I’ll think of this.
I’m not that big on the details of Star Wars but I always assumed that box with knobs and buttons on his chest was his actual respirator and the helmet was like an oxygen mask thingie. If that was the case though, shouldn’t he be choking to death or something right now? Oh wait, choking IS one of his kinks!
That’s okay. We’re not that big on the details either! 😉
That’s no Moon, oh wait yes it is… 😉
I’m too old to be giggling over a naked cartoon Vader, but I can’t help it. For a guy so badly bar-b-qued, I’d say he’s looking pretty good, should check that off his to-do list and focus on making his suit shock resistant instead.
“Vader’s Nude Meditation,”
or
“Using the Force is Just Mental Masturbation”
Naked Vader. Now there’s something you just can’t un-see, no matter how much brain bleach you use. X )
I found myself like many folks, discovering Peter Cushing through Star Wars, then working my way backward. Knowing what a warm, kind gentleman he was makes me love him all the more. Plus, Jellybottys wrote a song about him! The lyrics are used as a rhyme in schools in England, I believe – unless that’s a rumor.
The Dark Side of the Moon? ::giggles::
Thanks so much for the tribute to Peter Cushing. I found a meme of Peter Cushing somewhere online and I need to post it…after reading the various roles that he played, it makes me want to say “take that, Chuck Norris!”. 🙂
I know what you mean! And here it is!
http://i.imgur.com/rkPhh.jpg
That’s it! Thanks, Trigatron.
jajajajajajaj Just saw the strip… YOU KILLED ME GUYS!!!!! jajajajajaja