So there I am, kicking back with QT-pi and we’re watching the season premiere of Family Guy, which is the eager awaited “Star Wars” episode.  Over all, I enjoyed it, and found myself laughing at the show for the first time in a year or so.  I’m watching Peter and kin play out the original Star Wars film when suddenly I spit out my ABA.

Seth MacFarlane has ripped me off.  More acurately, he ripped off bortQ.

Anyone remember back to June 25, 2006??  I do, because it was the date that bortQ started posting his amazingly funny, insightful, and original work here.  For those not in the know, and with a hole in your skulls, here’s the very first TeeDee comic bortQ did…

Now here’s the -original- cartoon bortQ did for Starlog magazine way before he started following me around…

Imagine my surprise seeing this -exact- gag on Family Guy, including having Watto being the one zapped as in the TeeDee version.

I guess bortQ should feel flattered.  He’s now in the ranks of Matt Groening, and all the other fantasticly funny people that MacFarlane has made a career out of ripping off.

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Politics is ugly and apparently not to be taken seriously; by even the canidates.  To see what I’m talking about, follow this link and watch what is alledgedly a REAL campaign commercial.  Go ahead, I’ll wait.

Back?  Okay, I’ll dispense with the, “Wow, those special effects sucks the sack of a Bantha” type comments, because it just doesn’t need to be said. 

“…and I paid for this ad”
…and you got ripped off, pal.  Here’s a little piece of political advice from someone with charisma enough to lead throngs of people to do my bidding.  First, shoot your assistant out of an airlock immediately.  Second, if you don’t have an assistant, then hire one…and then shoot them out of an airlock immediately.  This shows the public that you mean business, and that you’re serious!  Next, with a face like that, it should be the very LAST thing the voters see, not the first.  Have someone kick you in the junk about three minutes before shooting the commercial.  This way, your anger and passion will really come across as genuine.  Because honestly, if you’re not passionate about the twig and berries, then I don’t want you near the kids….wait…if you are too passionate about them, I don’t want you near the children either.. Bah.  The method’s still gold, so run with it.  Trust me.

While I’m sure all your friends tell you that you look like the “40 Year Old Virgin“, and chances are, you might actually be one, this is no reason to announce it to the voters.  And a Jedi??  You want a position on the school board, and you chose to emulate the baby-stealers of the Galaxy??  What were you thinking???

Bah…  Politics is just damned ugly.

Here’s the rest of the story.

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..to go check out the Star Wars TV link below.  While it is absolutely hillarious, it also underscores something that really pissed me off about “Episode III”.  The pussification of Darth Vader.  This guy is my boss.  He is a complete, and utter badass with a capital “B”, and now everyone feels sorry for him.  Goddamnit, Darth Vader isn’t a fekkin’ sob case.  He’s an intergalactic Dark Lord of the Sith.  You don’t cry for him.  You cry because of what he’s done to your family. You cry because his is the most fearsome fear you could ever have a fear of fearing!

This film took the Galaxy’s most feared villian and ripped him of all dignity.  He turned evil because of a woman?? Well, who in the Hell hasn’t???  But you know what?  I want to see an angry Lord Vader.  I want to bask in the glory of his hatred.  I want to watch him mow down Jedi after Jedi during the Great Purge! I want to see him strong with his rage.

I want to see Darth Vader be DARTH VADER, esq, and Galactic Bad Mother Fekker. (sorry Mace, he “bitched” you.)

I didn’t want to see him cry…

and Robot Chicken aren’t the ones who made him cry…

Uncle George did…

and while I haven’t lost faith…

it still pisses me off. 

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