The best running joke in the 2016 Darth Vader series was how Vader would inexplicably be able to sneak up on Aphra. You gotta imagine the only way he's doing this is by turning off his respirator and holding his breath.
Star Wars: Darth Vader #12, (2016), written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Salvador Larroca, coloured by Edgar Delgado
I got teary eyed at the exchange between the droid bartender and Bo-katan&Din. I love the droids sm.
Also I wonder if we'll ever see triple zero and beetee in live action or in animation. They are my favourite droids. Along with Doctor Aphra. I love her crazy ass too.
Northrup BT-1, Photo by LIFE by Willard Womack
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What became the Douglas SBD Dauntless, started as the Northrop BT-1. At this time, Northrop was a subsidiary of Douglas. By 1939, Northrop had become the El Segundo Division of Douglas, and the BT-1 had become the SBD (Scout Bomber by Douglas). This shows the paint scheme used by the Navy during the mid to late 1930s. It is all in code. Navy planes of that day had floatation bags mounted in the wings. These would keep the plane afloat in event of a ditching. The yellow wings (top only) helped the search planes locate a downed aircraft. Fighter planes could see each other better in mock dogfights, maybe helping to prevent a midair collision. With the start of the war, the air bags were removed. The Navy did not want the enemy to recover them. At least one airplane type carried the famous Norden Bomb Sight. There were eighteen planes in a Squadron, flying in six “V” formations of three planes. Each section had a color. Starting with the first section the colors were Red, White, Blue, Black Green and Yellow. The planes were numbered from one to eighteen. The first or Red section numbers were “One”, “Two”, “Three”. And so on to eighteen. The flight leaders entire engine cowling was paint the appropriate color. The right wingman had only the top half of the cowling painted. While the left wingman had only the bottom half of the cowling painted. The flight leader also had a band painted around the fuselage. The color of the vertical fin and rudder identified the carrier, while the lettering on the side tell you the Squadron, the mission, and the plane number. Here we have a BT-1, (6-B-10) which is in the Sixth Bomber Squadron (6-B) Airplane number ten (10), on the USS Enterprise (Blue fin and rudder). The Enterprise is also Carrier “CV6”. It is the flight leader’s plane, with a fully painted cowling and a band around the fuselage. Carrier code was “Blue” USS Enterprise, “Red” USS Yorktown, “Green” USS Ranger, “Yellow” USS Lexington, ”White” USS Saratoga, “Black” USS Wasp. The star on the wings was changed, in May, 1942, by removing the red center. It is a fun code to use. Any Navy plane, from this time, will tell you all of this information. Amaze your friends with your useless knowledge, just as I have.
Neil Gaiman at The Art of Elysium's 2024 Heaven Gala by wetalkduringmovies, 6.1.2024 :) (x)
Neil: I'm writing the script right now.
Q: Really? For the show?
Neil: For the show.
Q: Wow, that's really exciting. Hi. Me and Sasha are on the red carpet for Art of Elysium Neil Gaiman's Heaven Gala. I was wondering, when it comes to adaptation, whether it's adapting something like Christian text into something like Good Omens or adapting the book into a TV show, how do you approach that process?
Neil: A lot of the time, you try and figure out what it is that you responded to and why the new medium... what the new medium can bring to it. So with Good Omens, for example, adapting that, I had to go, okay, well, I've got this big, sprawling book with an awful lot of characters in it, and I'm going to have to make that into a show. And Crowley and Aziraphale are going to be my stars, so I need them in it more, and I need to give them a story, and I need to hang it and shape it around them. And once I had that idea, then adapting it was relatively easy.
Q: Okay, that's amazing. And congrats on Season Three.
Hasbro - Comic & Novel Black Series by Darth Ray
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Hasbro - Star Wars Black Series: Comic and Novel Figures Doctor Aphra (Darth Vader), BT-1 (BeeTee), Princess Leia , Sergeant Kreel, Jaxxon (Adventures) 0-0-0 (Triple Zero), Luke Skywalker & Ysalamiri (Heir to the Empire), Boba Fett (War of the Bounty Hunters), Darth Maul (Sith Apprentice), Jaina Solo (Legends), Carnor Jax [sic] (Crimson Empire), Black Krrsantan, Darth Vader (Infinities) and Luke Skywalker (Skywalker Strikes)