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Check out OLD NEWS!
Posted by: Bill Cable 05.07.08 12:01am
I don't have any real new news to post, so why not milk some old news? I've added the latest news to our News Archive. This will prove exceptionally helpful to you if need to catch up on Danno's Indy story, which is quickly approaching its climax. Of course for that it'd probably be more efficient to check Danno's Article Archive. They're all down at the bottom there. But for everything else the archive is a good option.
Indiana Jones and the Sith Stone
Posted by: Darth Danno 05.07.08 12:01am
CreatureCantina.com is proud to present the next chapter of Darth Danno's thrilling adventure saga "Indiana Jones and the Sith Stone."
CHAPTER 27: INDY MEETS... WHO WAS THAT AGAIN?
NOT a good idea...
Posted by: Bill Cable 05.07.08 12:01am
So something occurred to me last Wednesday... a few hours after I posted last week's update. I realized that while in the midst of a job search, it probably wasn't very wise to be posting comic strips depicting a desperate job hunter bent on murdering people. I have the site on my resume, so it's not that unlikely that one of my prospective employers might check it out, and if they click on the strip have second thoughts. Hopefully no damage was done, but in retrospect it wasn't the smartest thing I've done. Employers - if you're reading this today, I have no intention whatsoever of ever shooting people to take their money. I'm a rock-solid non-psychopath! So you can feel very safe hiring me. Two thumbs up!
I've decided not to continue last week's story arc, so I went to a reader-submitted idea. Enjoy this week's non-violent, gentle and well-adjusted "The Cantina" Comic Strip!!!
Quote of the Week!
Posted by: Bill Cable 04.30.08 12:01am
I got an E-mail from my brother Monday asking:
"Has no one ever requested a Ben (Sir Alec Guiness) Kenobi drawing? I was looking through your list, and I didn't see him."
To which I replied that no, nobody has. My brother's reaction wins CreatureCantina's "Quote of the Week" (not that we have such an award... but if we did it would)...
"That is ridiculous. I hope the people that requested the likes of FX-7, probot, and all those jedis that had maybe one line in the stupid prequels have some weird collecting concentration (like say, C3P0 for example)that compelled them to pick throw-away characters that wouldn't even have names if they didn't need something to print on the boxes the toys come in over the guy that delivered the best performance in all the star wars movies."
Amen, my brother. Amen.
Go to the Star Wars Roadshow; win Tresob's stuff!
Posted by: Tresob Yr 04.30.08 12:01am
This morning I made a six-figure donation to the DCSWCC. That's six action figures, not a monetary sum containing six digits. They are going to be prizes at a raffle at the Star Wars Road Show in Maryland this Saturday.
Yes, I do consider it a news-worthy update whenever I part with toys.
I also gifted 40 Star Wars minis to be used as door prizes for the first people who show up. I hear they are going to be reserving the rare minis for attractive female registrants...or maybe it was just female registrants...one can't be too picky.
If swag isn't enough to entice you, then maybe the fun-filled, family-oriented atmosphere will be. The DCSWCC Star Wars Road Show is a unique event modeled after PBS's Antique Road Show, only with uber-collectors from the DC Metro Area Star Wars Collecting Club showing off their geekiness by identifying your hopefully rare Star Wars collectibles and then telling you how much they would have been worth if you hadn't opened them up and played with them as a kid. But the most exciting part of it all is, again, the chance to own toys that were once in my possession.
The Star Wars Road Show is being held Saturday, May 3rd from 1:30pm until 4:30pm at West County Area Library, 1325 Annapolis Road Odenton, MD 21113.
For more information, check out this link
Indiana Jones and the Sith Stone
Posted by: Darth Danno 04.30.08 12:01am
CreatureCantina.com is proud to present the next chapter of Darth Danno's thrilling adventure saga "Indiana Jones and the Sith Stone."
CHAPTER 26: DID WE MISS SOMETHING?
Aqualishous
Posted by: Tresob Yr 04.30.08 12:01am
Beedo totally hooked me up with some figures this week, including the Aqualish Senator Po Nudo. At first, I had planned to go for political satire, and make an "Elect Po Nudo" sign, but the politics of the Star Wars universe got too confusing for me after a day of work. In the end, I decided to send a shout out to all of the SP-loving Anonymous out there...
Link parade!
Posted by: Bill Cable 04.30.08 12:01am
I was deluged with links from random people this week... TWO WHOLE E-MAILS with links to stuff worth linking to. The first came with this intro:
I wanted to share with you a hilarious music video that addresses the great Ewok debate! The video was created for the upcoming 25th anniversary of RotJ and...
And I'll stop it there... don't want to spoil the big surprise! I'll just say it's worth watching the whole thing.
Star Wars Ewok Gospel
The second link was a request for a link on our link page. They said link that they link fail to link suck link link.
Hi there, my site is www.lightsabre.co.uk and it sucks not.
We have interviews, news, reviews, comic strips, fiction, artwork - you name it, somewhere it will be hiding behind a Bantha or hitching a ride on a space slug.
Hope you consider us, expect to see a cc.com banner on our site shortly and top site - great fun (and Julia really has the artists touch. If she wants to draw something for us I'll use it in the site. Seriously, my 8 year old godson drew something for us a while back and it looked just brilliant)
So I'll add them to the links page. Gotta love the alternate Euro spelling of lightsaber. And how could we not link to a site when dude in the upper-left corner is the spitting image of Chris Fawcett??
It's not easy needing green...
Posted by: Bill Cable 04.30.08 12:01am
Now, of the three main characters in the comic strip, I identify with Walrus more than any of them. While he's not particularly brilliant, we do share a sort of "I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam" straightforwardness. But after six months of so far fruitless job hunting, I'm beginning to feel a bit like Greedo. I just can't seem to find that perfect bounty. Of course that could change within a few days if my interview last Friday went as well as I thought it did, or if I stumble upon something good at a job fair tonight. While it's not a fun situation to be in, at least it's inspirational enough to prompt this week's "The Cantina" Comic Strip!!!
The Force runs strong in my family
Posted by: Bill Cable 04.23.08 12:01am
It would not be fair to say I forced Star Wars on my daughter. Sure, I bought her some Galactic Heroes. And I've been taking her to PSWCS meetings since she was two. And I got her both LEGO: Star Wars games for the Gamecube, and the complete Saga for PlayStation3. But I never forced her to play any of them. I mean, I wouldn't think saying "If you want to play video games with daddy you need to play Star Wars" would be classified as forcing her to play. Maybe it'd qualify as mild coercion... but nothing more serious than that.
Well, somehow my love of Star Wars has seemed to rub off on my daughter. LEGO: Star Wars is probably her favorite video game. She sets up her Galactic Heroes in a new configuration every week. And she draws Star Wars characters all the time... just like her daddy. She drew a particularly good one this past week, which she gave me permission to share. So check out this very special Cable Original...
Isn't that fantastic? Julia is 6 years old now, and getting better all the time. Maybe artistic talent is genetic after all! I was going to identify the characters for everyone, but then I decided I want to have a little fun. Almost all of them are obvious, but there are a couple tricky ones in there. So here's what I'm going to do... the first person who E-mails me correctly identifying all seven characters from left to right will receive a sheet of "The Cantina" comic strip artwork... because I could never give away this masterpiece!
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