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Fishing Strikes Back! Lots going on in this comic. We know this story takes place in early June of 1977, thus, “Star Wars” has been released. Being Sci-Fi geeks, Jeff and Bud have seen the film, which is why Bud is quoting Darth Vader in the first three frames. And the Millennium Falcon was a Corellian freighter and this is referenced in the original “Star Wars” novel (which I own). So, Bud would be aware of what type of freighter Han Solo flew.
And it was common where I grew up to use the phrase “Did you get the license of that semi-truck?” just after something knocked the crap out of you or you fell down. I get questions from time to time about phrases like that I use, so I figured I’d beat you all to the punch.
“Wipeout” has a long history of being covered. Original recorded by the Surfaris in 1962 (but hitting the charts in 1963) as a B-side to a single. As it happens many times in the world of music, the B-side turns out to be the big hit. Today’s version is by Gary Hoey, who is known for taking old songs and rockin’ the hell out of them. This version of “Wipeout” is from his 2005 album “Monster Surf” which was mostly covers of surfin’ tunes. Gary overdrives the hell out of most of the songs on the album, and if you’re like me, you occasionally want to have some instrumentals rockin’ the speakers. Less distracting while I draw.
Yes, “Star Wars,” but no, “The Little Mermaid.”
My second son was sooo into “The Little Mermaid” film that he watched it daily for like a month. I’ve grown to hate the film.
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Modern Disney is okay, but who remembers : The Incredible Mr. Limpet?
I remember that Don Knotts movie very well indeed. It’s how we won the war against the Nazis apparently.
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Apologies for geeking out here – Star Wars references work so long as you stick to Ep. IV. I remember a while back you had one of the girls in a Slave-Leia outfit, which would be from Ep. V, which came out in 1980, so 3 years too late for this comic. It was non-canon filler art though, so we’ll let that slide…
And as soon as I sent that I realized it was from Ep. VI (1983), so even more out of date… Oops.
Yeah, I knew I was going to get some crap about the Leia Slave outfit on Robyn, but hey, it was fun to draw (plus, that was like 2009 too, I didn’t have my comic shit together then either)
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I guess you didn’t have much choice anyhow, given that she was pretty much the only female character in the original trilogy, and you couldn’t very well put them both in the same outfit…
Also while we’re pointing these things out, all the Disney nods in the current story are even more anachronistic, but those are more easter-eggy, and not directly referenced by the characters, so it’s okay. Whatever, “Rule of Funny” or “Rule of Sexy” overrides canon…
The panel where Bud mentions the freighter, the line originally was “Obi-Wan taught him well…” until I realized that was from “Empire” so I tossed the line out. I do try to stick to canon 1977 references for the most part.
It looks like someone pissed off Neptune!