- Perhaps a bit of a hint of things to come? Check out the shirt behind Green Arrow (from JLA #10).
- A new pic we haven’t yet posted comes from the Independent Spirit Awards page…It’s a real nice one of Jason and Carmen Lee. Thought you folks might want to have a look.
- In the May 1999 Issue of PC Accelerator (Issue 09), on page 20, they have a little sidebar story called “Diary of a Death Star Engineer” which goes through excerpts from the 499 days in the life of a Death Star Engineer. (Mostly of the Engineer complaining how no one is doing anything about the trench leading to the central reactor). They don’tgive Clerks any credit, but you can guess where the inspiration came from:
Day 1 -I really love this new job. Great benefits, good pay, and how many people can say thier job involves vaporizing planets with a giantdeath ray? I can’t wait to destroy my first planet.
Day 2 -I brought up to my superior officer what I thought was a slight oversight in the plans of thr Death Star. It seems there’s anexhaust port that leads right to the central power core of the station, and this port is accesable from the surface. And also – thisis the kicker – the port can’t be closed. There’s no lid. So here’s this direct route to the power core that someone could say,drop a penny into and blow up the entire station. Um, does this strike anyone else as maybe just a slight design flaw? So I guessthey decided to build a trench or something to put it in. So in essence, leading people right to it? You’d think that this kind ofquestioning would be welcomed by the people who run this place, ut no. You shoulda seen my boss flip out and threaten to tell LordVader, blah blah blah. Oh well, I’m sure nothing will come of it.
Day 30 -It was a good day. Had a good lunch, stuffed womprats. Told a funny joke, that was a winner. Oh, and I blew up Alderan, nicesatisfying explosion. Debris everywhere. Maybe I’ll rent a movie tonight.
Day 33 -Still no lid on that exhaust port.
Day 47 -Everyone oer here’s been talking about the Rebels. Seems there’s this hidden base around here somewhere, and they’ve been throwingthese little ships at us. What do they call ’em, Z wings?
Day 442 -Wow, it’s bee quite a while since my last entry. Well to recap real quick, I almost lost my job when those stupid Rebels blew up theDeath Star! Can you believe it? It’s a good thing I just happened to be on vacation at the time. Now, back to work on the brand new,top secret Death Star 2.
Day 449 -Well it seems there’s another potential flaw in the design that no one has noticed, apparently. There’s a central reactor as before,but this time there’s a trench leading right to it from the surface that a saucer shaped ship could fly through. This seems bad tome, but it appears I’m alone on this one. Considering what happened last time, I feel I should bring this up with Lord Vader.
This was the last entry.
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