Look, I am just gonna keep posting stuff from THE ABADDON until you start reading it…
You can check in anytime you want to THE ABADDON but you can never leave!
Ok… been re-visiting a lot of my favorite webcomics lately, and discovering some new ones to boot.
Koren Shadmi’s THE ABADDON is one I’ve been following for a while and it just keeps getting better and better. It reminds me of Neil Gaiman’s work in a lot of ways. And the early seasons of LOST too…
iO9 takes a long hard look at the mystery of C-3P0’s boner!
The Star Wars films have become such cultural touchstones that even the most arcane background minutiae are subjected to intense fan scrutiny.
Ditto goes for Star Wars paraphernalia, such as a 1977 Topps trading card, in which a stray piece of costuming makes C-3PO lookincredibly enthused to be aiding the Rebel cause. Just how enthusiastic was the droid about defeating the Empire? Let’s just say that Threepio was upright with martial vigor.
Our story starts with the fourth series of Topps’ American Star Wars trading card set. The offending card — #207, a.k.a. “C-3PO (Anthony Daniels)” — shows the robot flaunting what appears to be a decidedly tumescent member. Perhaps it is a clandestine Jedi antenna that rises in the presence of nearby Force-sensitive individuals…
