All Clear Kid! (16)
Last Updated (Friday, 25 November 2011 09:07) Written by Administrator Wednesday, 23 November 2011 00:00
BY THE IMMORTAL GODS OF THE SITH!
There are Gods in Star Wars? Apparently so, and even the evil Sith ones are good. I present a recently received present of a Dejarik game with a hand-painted board! They must have inspired T.Gatto, whom you'll probably know of if you ever read the comments here... ever read 'em?
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Yes, the poor neglected comments section. But I'll get to that later.
Yes, Tom Gatto, one of the top posters here on the site and on Facebook, God love him, sent myself and wee Johnny a terrific present last week. A Dejarik game (Er, that's « 3D Holographic Space Chess to you) all the way from the US to Ireland. Our Johnny loves it. (See Fig.A)
Fig.A. One Happy little boy (note the BlueMilkSpecial postcards)
Actually, come to think of it, it's probably prudent to prove to you that wee Johnny is actually my son and not some figment of my split-personality brought about by extreme nerdyness and general disappointment with my creative life. Just as it's also true that I don't keep children - or chimpanzees - locked in the basement turning out '1977' comic pages :)
Dejarik
But I digress. Tom's present is much appreciated. One of these days I'll get around to reading the rules of Dejarik that he emailed me. Johnny's rules tend to be unfathomable, fluid and always bring about the same result. We tried a draughts style approach which was quite good. Jumping opponents and taking them diagonally. The centre space was a 'den' where you could sit safely for one turn - 4 times per game. You're not allowed to attack from the den though. I was enjoying it. After 15 minutes Johnny said "This is BORING!"
More Thanks
I'd just like to thank the many people who've enjoyed and supported this odd site which - let's face it - was always going to be of limited appeal. I originally put the comic online because I had to scan it anyway to preserve it and then thought - "what the heck, maybe others will enjoy its oddness too."
The first big supporters were Rod and Leanne Hannah of Blue Milk Special.com. BMS has promoted this site on and off over the last 2 years. Big thanks to them! Then there more of you who discovered the site on Facebook and have been the biggest commentators here and on FB.
HUGE honorable mention for all the comments and posts which have kept this site alive - especially when I wondered if I was just wasting my time - go to:
Tom Gatto - with over 160 comments!
Neil Baker over - 130!
Blue Milk Special / Rod Hannah - 45
Also:
Casey Chiwenko
Dan Pollard
Damien Slattery
And can I say that as well as BMS/The Hannahs; Neil Baker and Damien Slattery have been great advocates and for the site and given me lots of encouragement. It was thanks to Neil that Bonnie Burton over at LucasFilm started following the comic, and Star Wars on Twitter became a follower of SWa9 on Twitter. And lets not forget, if it wasn't for Neil, Mark Hamill wouldn't have taken a look at the site!
There are many more of you to thank - you know who you are. Becky, Niall B, dsdgsdg.........
Thanks Neil!
Thanks for reading! Please leave a comment below ;-)
Comments
Today's page is pretty awesome despite its well drawn nature - lots going on and a nice flow to the panels!
Really don't want this to stop. So here's my suggestion. Lets close our eyes, use our 'off' hands, and draw The Empire Strikes Back. Next stop, starwars: age 40-ish.
Eh, yes I can.
It was, however, nice of you to let Little John out of the basement factory long enough to play Dejarik for 15 minutes!
I will be sad when this site ends, but I'm looking foreword to Aliens age 11 and your other works.
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Excellent work on the comic and web site. Hope you continue it in some way.
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