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Ben!!! (33)

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Art Notes

"- C'mon kid! So his life won't have been in vain!"

SPECIAL FEATURE: SFTP-FX technique
(see Luke's blaster fire and the Falcon's engines)

Agh! I hate this page. but the poor stormtrooper being shredded to smithereens is quite exciting.

So his life won't have been in vain? Once again we have an attempt at using a well known expression and making complete load of arse of it.

So Ben's life will have been in vain unless full advantage isn't taken of his death? So, Solo thinks that the old geezer just wasted his life sitting in a mud house on a dustball, like a mad old hermit - waiting to redeem himself by getting killed for their benefit?

Film Notes: You Dirty Womprat...

Thanks to Neil Baker Someone on reddit was asking the other day how Luke was able to so easily make the adjustment to killing people. One reader responded that he'd been shooting womprats since he was a kid. I responded: "Maybe Luke's a classic psycho. You know - killing animals for fun?"

It's great being a kid. All these complex questions and plot holes just don't figure when you're enjoying a piece of entertainment.

Comic Notes

I have a bit of a dilemma now. The last load of upcoming pages are additions and older cut out pages that were rearranged and stapled back together before being inserted into the back of the book. Basically, I ran out of pages on the second half of the book and had to add more. My big worry is: pulling the old staples out, to seperate the pages so I can scan them. Painful prospect!

Thanks for reading! Care to comment?

vote for SW9!

luke blasts stormtroopers in a rage and the falcon makes its escape! - comic panels

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+1 # RE: Ben!!! (33)T. Gatto 2011-09-23 21:50
Mmmmmm! Storm trooper Flambe.

So I see you improved on the Crayon O Scope by adding high tech felt tipped markers!
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0 # RE: RE: Ben!!! (33)john i white 2011-09-23 22:35
;-) Amazing-Felt-Ar ama
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+1 # RE: Ben!!! (33)Dan P 2011-09-23 23:16
Someone's got to say it...

www.youtube.com/.../
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0 # RE: RE: Ben!!! (33)john i white 2011-09-24 08:18
:D :lol: Can you imagine? With multiple, repeat slow motion shots of him being struck, and heartrending flashbacks to key moments of their 1 day relationship? "Oh, I still remember how he excused himself to go the the bathroom like it was only a coupe of hours ago."
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+1 # RE: Ben!!! (33)Casey 2011-09-24 01:54
Kaboomy stormie! Luke (that is Luke in the fourth panel, right?) looks really constipated...
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0 # RE: RE: Ben!!! (33)john i white 2011-09-24 08:19
Ha ha - yes, maybe I should label every character for clarity!

Unggggg .... nearly .... almost ... nggggg!

Also see: starwarsage9.com/.../...
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+1 # RE: Ben!!! (33)Neil 2011-09-24 23:59
You dirty what? C'mon - go the distance.
I want an audio version with a dodgy Jimmy Cagney impression... "You doity wamprat... gee I oughta..." etc.

In other news - explody trooper FTW.
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0 # RE: RE: Ben!!! (33)john i white 2011-09-25 08:03
God - how did I miss that? Brilliant. Why of all the...

And then some film historian standing off to the side saying (knowingly):
"You know, James Cagney never ever said that? Nor did Bogey say 'play it again Sam'; nor did Scotty say 'Cap'n, the engines canny tak' it."

"Wise guy huh? Take that!" BLAM!
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+1 # RE: RE: RE: Ben!!! (33)Neil 2011-09-25 12:25
Yeah, I know he never said it (nor Eastwood most of Dirty Harry's lines) but Mike Yarwood made it kosher.

Not a lot of people know that.
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0 # RE: RE: RE: RE: Ben!!! (33)John white 2011-09-25 19:39
Good one!
I love Cagney though. Great character. Good dancer too!
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+1 # RE: Ben!!! (33)T. Gatto 2011-09-27 15:45
I always found it odd that luke lost his anun and uncle, and Ben, but leia lost her world, and she was comforting him. What a wimp!

On another note I just noticed your cover reads "Full Color" even with the "Crayon O' Scope"* and "Amazing-Felt-A r ama" ** the pages are not exactly FULL Color are they, 9-year-old John needs to get on that or my lawyers may be calling him. :)

* Crayon O' Scope is the express property of T. Gatto Enterprises, and any infringement is subject to stiff penalty, like having to watch multiple re-runs of Petty Coat Junction. :P
** Amazing-Felt-Ar ama is the express property of T. Gatto Enterprises, and any infringement is subject to stiff penalty, like having to plunge public rest room toilets without the bennefit of rubber gloves. :P
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0 # RE: RE: Ben!!! (33)John white 2011-09-27 18:59
Classic!

Yep you're right. I infringed product description laws. Maybe I learnt it from marvel and their totally spoofy cover images and over the top cover blurbs.

Re: Luke grieving etc. It's beyond belief how he gets over the deaths of dear ones so quickly. Uncle and aunt Gruesomely slaughtered and burned and a few minutes later he's in mos Sisley acting like nothing happened. In the falcon after Ben dies he's sparring with Han over leia, back to thinking with his er... He's beginning to remind me of dexter!
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