The Empire Runs Back Again!

 Holy cow - it's the ides of May again? You know what that means - Star Warps Day!

Usually I do something silly for Star Warps Day and really stick it to the OG Fifties trilogy, but I rarely go past the original Star Warps. It's the one that sticks most in my mind, like the after-image of an exploding Deadstar. 

But you know, in this day and age of steaming Disney+ TV series and movies spun off from the universe and on everyone's lips, like the new prequel trilogy, and El Landolorian and Booger-Bobber Fett, it's easy to forget the second Star Warps movie, the downbeat and complicated The Empire Strikes! So here are some of my favourite images from that one.

Here's Luke and Layer (left) talking to robot C-thru-PO in the chilly caves of the ice planet Hot:

"I thought you smelled bad outside!"

This installment also introduced us to a galaxy of fantastic new locations and characters, like the dashing gambler and mayor of Clown City, Lango. Is he friend or foe? Watch your back, Hank Solo!

"You've got a lot of guts here!"

Speaking of that roguish Hank, my mind was blown when it was revealed that he was Layer's sister after all (spoilers!), and here he is with Opie "Ken" Benobi and one of the many many glamourous and powerful women of the original Star Warps trilogy, just before he got frozen and taken back to Jabber:

"I love you!" "You know it"

Happy Star Warps Day! The Warps will be with you. All ways.