The adventures of young Boba Fett

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Uh-oh. More film-related plot that I'm going to have to explain to everyone who didn't see Star Wars. Okay, nutshell version, here we go. Jango Fett (the character referred to here as "Dad") is this bounty hunter guy in Episode 2, who's being used as the genetic basis for a clone army. Part of his payment for this is to have one clone of himself to keep, who grows up at the normal rate (all the others are accelerated somehow). That clone is Boba, who he refers to as his son (maybe he just never met the right woman, poor guy). Anyway, Jango's essentially one of the baddies, and at the end of the film he meets his grisly end when Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson, playing a Jedi) chops his head off with a lightsaber. The last we see of Boba is him kneeling in the aftermath of the battle, solemnly contemplating his father's helmet (presumably with his head still in it, ewww, although that's never made clear). Anyway, the next we see of Boba, it's The Empire Strikes back, and he's grown up to be a bounty hunter just like his old man. Bless his little wrist mounted grappling hooks.

Enough explanation? Great. What was I talking about?

Oh yes, this comic thing. I like the stormtrooper character. He's basically entertainingly hapless. And patronising. That's important, when trying to generate humour. And congratulations to Lego for finally making some custom firearms for Star Wars minifigs (blaster shown here, rifle later). They don't look as good as some of the stuff on Brickarms but I don't have any of those.

Oh, and the unfinished sentence in panel 2 is "But you haven't got any knees". Minifigs are pretty small anyway, so how to do children sized ones? (as required by themes such as Star Wars). Why, make smaller minifig legs, of course! Hence the slightly warped but shorter appearance of Boba. It kind of works. But they don't bend, hence the knees remark. That was all obvious enough already, right?