Star Wars Day… again! So, I dug up this mock comic cover I did back in 2009 which announced the second part of a very long story I told that year. I updated the flesh and hair colors, but left the rest alone. I’ve always hated Robyn’s hair style in this era, but I had only been drawing for two years so it isn’t horrible in that aspect.
And “Star Wars” would not have been the huge it was without John Williams’ tremendous score and main theme.
2009, that was a time Far Far Away, at least as I get older it seems that way, my kids were 10 and 14 then. Sometimes its fun to look back at what you did and how far you have developed and accomplished, Keep up the good work!
It took me way too long to find this one, the force was not with me 🙂 What can I say ? I’m a sucker for a good song parody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVJUm-bWyuA
And we can’t forget the original trilogy, even if it was the middle part… o.O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryW2nDcDN04
I remember seeing Stars Wars A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back with my mother and Return of the Jedi with my sister later the recent stories even docs about special effects and the Mel Brooks parady space balls. I even have 2 star wars programs and 2 comic books but I didn’t coolect the other stuff. I remember going to comic/game con a gave my room mates at the time free star trek comic books one put it in a small safe and I though Sheldon Coopers were a rarity. The other said good lord when he saw me in a black long sleeve and later on a pink short sleeve mini dresses. But what does expect from some one with size 14 stepping on my smaller ballet shoes while I wore them saying girly feet all I could do was shudder. Other than learning I’m not exactly a great fit for the alt right after I called Donald Trump the hell toupee get hell to pay oddly enough he thought it was funny. Maybe it’s because I served him some my food or assembled a computer desk it had tomato sauce stains don’t want to know how they got there. Any more than why are his knees so knoby and hairy or why I had to check for prowlers that were really a shed door open by the wind and snow. Some protecting the women folk when he didn’t say I’d make a nice wife shudder.
I remember seeing the ‘first’ one in theatres when it came out in ’77, just before I got married, and when they ‘made the jump to hyperspace’ thinking that “a lot of stoned moviegoers might never recover from this…” 😉
I remember seeing the first movie when it came out, not the first episode but the fourth one o.O
I also remember thinking when they ‘made the jump to lightspeed’ that “if anyone’s stoned watching this, they’re not coming down again”.
Tape reels for TIE fighters is a nice touch, I’m ashamed I didn’t notice them straight off 😉
You still alive out there? Starting to worry.
Hello.
Good luck 🙂
Yah, I saw Star Wars in ‘77 but what was more fun was when my college roommate and I dragged our couch over to the girls front door next to ours using the unique pickup line “did you order a couch mam?”. Or flying over the “Plaza de Toros” or recording the chipmunk version of “Send in the Clowns”. Or rearranging the living room to accommodate various stereo systems. Or even messing around with a synthesizer my roommate built. Hey, I wonder if he still has those Jensen 25’s I sold him. Hmmmm…whadaya think Byron?..
JERRY!! Holy shit, man! Great to hear from you! And sadly those Jensen 25’s died a long time ago. I wore those things out cranking BTO, Sabbath, Deep Purple, and yes, even ABBA through that old Onkyo amp I had (which I think you sold me as well). I have told that couch story to many people and it is one of our greatest moments. But you forgot about the belch monster we created using my Dokoder 8140 multi-track recorder. That was something!
And here’s those Jensen speakers and the PAIA synthesizer you mentioned. 🙂 Dig that gold shag carpeting, man!
That carpeting looks so familiar, and orange, and there was white shag in one bedroom of the first apartment we ever rented, the bedroom that stored a Vega engine and a fender 🙂
I had a pair of Soma speakers I bought from a roommate in barracks, 15″ woofer, 7.5″ midrange and a 3.75 ” ‘flare dome tweeter’ with a tuned port…CN wrecked one during shipping, but it was just the glue on the seams that let go so guntape to the rescue !!
Ours was blues and greens mixed. But I miss that shag!
There are a lot of things in this world that I miss, my health and sanity in particular, but shag carpeting is not one of them.
Anything spilled on it, including your stash, was gone forever.
You may not want to post this next statement but you didn’t mention all the DISCO tunes those speakers pumped out. Boom,Boom,Boom!! Those babies could rattle your brains! As I recall you had some serious amplification to drive them off the planet! Yep, that was a great time. You and I did some silly, crazy stuff. (No inhalants as I remember however. OK, I smoked a few Camel Non-filters). We hit a few bars as I recall. A consequence of one of those evenings I paid for physically. Do you remember what I did when you said “can’t you do that on the toilet?”! Even deathly ill there was always room for a little comedy. Our craziness started when we were at Waterson. When you called me after my junior year and said you wanted to share an apartment I knew we were headed for a year of hilarious events. And by the way I can text you a short clip of the belch monster if you email me your cell#. You have always been very talented but you have outdone yourself artistically with your comic. Yes, it is good to blog you after so many years.
Yes, having you as a friend and a roommate made my years at Illinois State all that much better. So many great memories thanks to you. Send me an email at byron@1977thecomic.com with your contact info and I’ll reply with the same, I so want to hear the belch monster after all these decades.
And thank you for the kind words about my work here on my comic. It is truly appreciated!
Sorry, I forgot to mention I mostly listened to Pat Travers, Robin Trower, and Aerosmith during that era. I was a sucker for thumping bass. Byron, you turned me onto BTO’s “Flat Broke Love” which has remained one of my favorites. What a great time we had!
Ah, another BTO convert! I still play BTO way too much, but that’s not a bad thing at all.