Starting the weekend with some very cute Star Wars

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Now you know that I have my little... quirks, but I do like me some cute of a weekend, and this hits the spot...

I found a copy of this new book in my local comic shop, HAD to buy it (despite the fact it was the only one that they had in and I think the owner wanted to read it himself, and I wanted to share it because it is AWESOME!

It's called



(If you thought "Batman and Sons" was the a humorous take on the most stressed father/son dynamic out there, think again...)







Simply a collection of one page gags featuring a refreshingly light take on the father/son dynamic at the core of George Lucas magnum opus...

Essentially.. "What if... Darth Vader raised Luke like a good father would"

No commentary needed on any of these, so I'll shut up now...









Oh, and fear not, Leia does make an appearance....


And there are 64 pages like this in the book!

If you never take heed of my recommendations again, please take it this time, you NEED this book! :)
 

Comments

[leia_solo]

I was scrolling down complaining about the fact that I didn't see Leia and there she is! People always forget about lovely Leia. I will so be buying this book, it's just too cute!

[icon_uk]

People always forget about lovely Leia.

Well George Lucas did ("She needs character development for the third movie? What the hell, let's make her Luke's sister"), why shouldn't everyone else?

[leia_solo]

I do think Lucas should have focused on Leia a bit more in ROTJ, but I just don't like the fact that most people forget Luke has a sister. But that's just a personal peeve of me XD

Leia's a Skywalker too dammit!

[shadowpsykie]

the EU does a good job of fleshing out Leia, she is my favorite character in the books, next to Jaina

[leia_solo]

She's part of the reason, I've started to read more of the EU!

[shadowpsykie]

she really starts to shine during the Vong Series. she gets fed up with politics and decides to become a full fledged knight. (they actually think she is on the fast track to master) if you think about, besides being Luke's sister, she used the force in its more subtle ways in her career as a politician. so she got all the "fine motor skills" of the force mastered already... and she fights like a Barabel. :D

I love Leia :D

[leia_solo]

Ooh I'll have to pick them up. I want to see Leia kick some ass!

[darkblade]

People remember she's his sister...when they want to make incest jokes.

[mrstatham]

The thing is, that was part Lucas wanting to put the saga to bed (until he realised he couldn't do anything else), and partly a result of him putting the saga to bed, because everything got condensed down pretty severely. It was pretty clear Luke was meant to have a sister, but the reveal of her being his sister kind-of flies in the face of the teasing moments Lucas had in Hope and Empire, where he kind-of suggested things but we eventually got Han/Leia.

Which is why we get the nonsense 'I've always known' dialogue in Jedi, which makes about as much sense as Ben's 'points of view' monologue.

[icon_uk]

It was pretty clear Luke was meant to have a sister

Umm... where? There had never been a hint of a sibling, and Luke certainly didn't know, nor did Kenobi even hint at it (When it would have been the best motivation to get Luke to join him on Star Wars, "Let's go save the princess... YOUR SISTER!"

And yes, that kiss in Empire will never not be slightly freaky after Jedi reveal (Even moreso Luke's slightly smug grin to Han afterwards... some Force sensitive HE turned out to be...)

[mrstatham]

Well, in Empire, Yoda does the whole 'no, there is another' thing in response to Ben's 'that boy was our only hope' line, which basically hinted at another Jedi or potential Jedi, and given the setup Lucas forced on himself - that the Jedi have basically been exterminated save for Kenobi, Yoda, and Luke - another Skywalker sibling was the logical choice, and it was in the gameplan for Lucas' larger saga, until he cut it down to existing size.

I'm not saying, by any stretch, Leia was always meant to be said sister. She got lumped into that role because Lucas condensed the story down. Which, you know, makes ZERO sense in the light of Episode III, because Bail Organa, prominent Republic senator, gets a kid out of nowhere (Maybe Alderaanians(?) just pop their kids out immediately, no long, obvious pregnancy?), and neither the Emperor or Vader would maybe have an inkling that prominent young Princess Leia is NOT Organa's actual daughter? In the twenty years or so (it seems) that it actually takes the Emperor to properly dismantle the Republic, judging from dialogue in Hope?

I mean, I love Jedi more than Hope to a certain degree, but people accuse Lucas of screwing up the saga with the prequels, and yet the plotholes were descending even back then.

[icon_uk]

The problem was that Ben was one of what... three people to know that Luke even had a sister (somehow Padme covered THAT one up), and he's talking to one of the other two, even the phrasing is poor (Clunky dialogue? In a Lucas film? Say it ain't so!)

Lucas' "gameplan" bullshit has been through too many iterations to even begin to convince me any more (Three movies, nine movies, six movies), he HAD no master plan, he (and it's a fair enough thing for a producer to do provided they don't try and later claim it was all part of a masterplan) made this stuff up on the hoof (especially in Empire) and then had to deal with it in Jedi.

This IS the guy who authorised "Splinter of the Minds Eye" after Star Wars (with an eye to IT being a low budget sequel if the movie did badly), which basically changes a whole lot of premises.

Oh and IMHO any suggestion that the Empire was remotely competent was sort of blown out of the water by having Luke raised on the family homestead on his father's homeworld, using his fathers surname, by his adoptive uncle and aunt, and knowing that he was the son of Anakin Skywalker, which is what he'd tell anyone who asked him. (Best solution I've heard is a fan theory that Tatooine is the one planet that Vader would avoid like the plague, through personal memory and the Emperor wanting to cut him off from any ties to his past, such as they were)

As for Leia, who had never once mentioned being adopted until that conversation with Luke in Jedi so add in another "WTF?" moment, I sort of kludged that one by assuming that whilst of course Bail and his wife (who was never even named in the movies) knew that Leia was adopted, and told her when they felt she was old enough, they didn't make it public, and she was just assumed to be their natural child.

[his_spiffynesss]

Oh and IMHO any suggestion that the Empire was remotely competent was sort of blown out of the water by having Luke raised on the family homestead on his father's homeworld, using his fathers surname, by his adoptive uncle and aunt, and knowing that he was the son of Anakin Skywalker, which is what he'd tell anyone who asked him.

Well, Tattooine was a fairly remote location and not exactly a major part of either the Empire or Republic. It's also a very rustic frontier world so I'm doubtful the planet has comprehensive identification for all of it's population. Even if they did, considering the scale of the galactic bureaucracy (they need a whole planet for it!) I could easily see that bit of minuscule data being lost in the shuffle.

Plus, the only two people who might actually care about these kids are Vader and Palpatine, and maybe Palpatine had assumed Padme and the kids had died at Vader's hand. It wasn't until Luke blows up the Death Star does anyone even think they exist.

Of course, I do have this vision of the Imperial Security data analyst who compiles the dossier on Skywalker for Lord Vader, only to get a force choke for his troubles.

[mrstatham]

The creator of the book has said that Leia only makes that small appearance in this volume - but if this book is successful, then it's very likely that he would do a book about her.

[icon_uk]

YAY!

[leia_solo]

Ah that's nice to know! I'm planning on pre-ordering this one because it looks so cute. Honestly I love all the Skywalkers haha.

[mrstatham]

I think the more support this book gets, the more likely we are to have a Vader and Daughter sequel - although the fact Lucas endorses this alone could be enough to get a sequel down.

I really want to see stuff like Vader at a tea party, maybe, begrudgingly going along with it.

[fungo_squiggly]

Ha! Little Leia put dresses on Darth Maul, Boba Fett, and a storm trooper.

[jeyl]

That's ok Luke. Leia will be nothing but eye candy in the final installment. You can even tell her she's not important to the rebellion unless you're dead.

[icon_uk]

The backroom staff never get credit, sure the kid blew up the Death Star, but someone had to fill in the requisition forms for the proton torpedoes, and audit the Personnel reports for the flight crew, and negotiate the deal for catering in the pilot's mess... Whose name is at the bottom of all those forms? L Organa, that's who!

[shadowpsykie]

well Leia had the best shot ratio in the movies, and was prettty bad ass in the battle of Endor

[ancarett]

What I loved is that George Lucas approved of this. And people say he doesn't have a sense of humour. . . .

[avantre]

I'm surprised people say that, what with him endorsing the Family Guy spoofs. Heck, he even did a spot or two of voice work for Robot Chicken.

[icon_uk]

Indeed, now if only we could convince him to carry some of that forward into his actual movies.

[darkblade]

He tries to he's just not funny on his own.

[mrstatham]

Have you ever read Simon Pegg's autobiography, odd as it may sound? There's a fascinating anecdote from when he got to meet Lucas that pretty much explains that dull, bored, glazed look he often seems to have when it comes to anything Star Wars related.

Basically, Pegg gets to meet him because he was sufficiently famous as of about 2005 to go to the Revenge of the Sith premiere. Ron Howard's talking with Lucas, who basically ignores Pegg until Howard starts enthusing about Shaun of the Dead, and Lucas actually gets interested. And eventually, he tells Pegg 'Don't let yourself get caught up making the same thing you were making twenty years ago', or words to that effect.

And that, I feel, explains so much about George. I can see why he looks so dull and bored sometimes. But when people come to him and bring him funny stuff or something that brings a fairly fresh twist on material he must be so bored of, at this point, I can see why he'd like it.

[halloweenjack]

This looks pretty great. (And a very different sort of project for Brown, although I do enjoy his previous, autobiographical material as well. Not his first venture into genre work, though; I think that some of his stuff from Marvel's Strange Tales showed up on s_d previously.)

[halloweenjack]

Oh, and hey, here it is! I might have thought to click on the tag already if only posters here used them more consistently... *glares around the room*

[icon_uk]

He notes in the book that he's been a Star Wars geek his entire life, and with a son of his own (Who he draws as looking a lot like Luke), the two combined! :)

[glprime]

"...Wait, you've been flying around for two weeks trying to get a signal?"

Poor Luke. That TIE Fighter must smell like feet wrapped in leathery, burnt bacon.

[icon_uk]

Robot Chicken to one side, I like to think he's got pine scented air fresheners in the shape of little TIE fighters hanging in the cockpit! :)

[mrstatham]

I like to think that Ponda Baba would get way worse than an arm chopped off if he pulled the 'he doesn't like you' routine in earshot of Vader.

[brooms]

this reminds me of iharthdarth

http://iharthdarth.livejournal.com/

[icon_uk]

Oh those are delightful, I've never seen them before. A shame they're so small and slightly blurry though, it makes reading them on a monitor a little tricky.

[sir_mikael]

I thought about those too. I wonder if this book will have Luke be as... adorably stupid as in iharthdarth.

[icon_uk]

Dude, he wants a Jar-Jar toy...

Though that being said, he's not so much stupid as... a kid (There's a great one with his taste in music not being quite to his Dad's tastes)

[eaglet_auditore]

Pffft, Leia's put a bikini on that droid.
Those pages are such a nice change of pace.

[eyz]

Awwww, that's so cute!
Now that's the kinda "expanded Universe" I'm all for! :)