Darths And Droids 2: Should've Gone to Naboo

[Lix Lorn]

I didn't get any seriously creepy overtones from Depp's Wonka either, just regular entertaining creepy. But I do think the whole daddy issues thing was a waste of time and definitely dump the whole thing in the "certain characters are best left unexplained and mysterious" box. That movie was very much a mixed bag for me.

I haven't actually seen the old one. Should probably fix that.

Hmm. I can very much see your point that Wonka works best as 'Huh?'. However, I really liked the backstory in that film. It seemed to make sense, while being a bit silly, while leaving enough unexplained that it was still mysterious.

Lollipops.

Exactly.

[Othniel Edden]

Actually I found elements of the old one far more creepy. Nonchalantly singing as something ominious happens to a child in a brightly colored and friendly atmosphere while everyone else just looks at you like you deserve it. Its like reading the monkie's paw all over again

[The Glyphstone]

Actually I found elements of the old one far more creepy. Nonchalantly singing as something ominious happens to a child in a brightly colored and friendly atmosphere while everyone else just looks at you like you deserve it. Its like reading the monkie's paw all over again

Perhaps, but the deliberately surreal environments and decorations there were a big part of pushing the old movie over the top from 'creepy and ominous' to 'bad drug trip'; past a certain point, it was too bizarre to take seriously anymore. In the remake, large portions of the factory had a sort of cold sterility to them, like a research lab - against that bleakness, Wonka's insanity is more easily apparent and more disturbing.

I shudder to think what Gene Wilder would have been capable of in Depp's place with the modern art direction, visuals, and special effects.

[Gez]

By the way, the link is already given, but let me update the big list.

1. Harry Potter (50)
2. The Sound of Music (100)
3. X-Men (150)
4. Aliens (200)
5. The Wizard of Oz (250)
6. 300 (300 -- how appropriate)
7. Avatar (300)
8. Terminator (350)
9. Jaws (400)
10. Casablanca (450)
11. The Muppets (500)
12. Inception (550)
13. Pirates of the Caribbean (600)
14. Back to the Future (650)
15. Futurama (700)
16. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (750)

[Matthias2207]

What's next? A zombie classic? A documentary on crab fishing?

[The Glyphstone]

I'm going with zombies, myself, or at least something in the horror/slasher genre.

[NEO|Phyte]

In the real world of the Hypnotoads & Hyperchickens universe, of course, Futurama doesn't exist. That's the premise of this entire comic, after all. But most of the other things we know and love (such as suicide booths) do, albeit modified by the lack of Futurama:

Billy West is known (barely) for doing voiceovers for poorly selling computer games, but gains widespread fame after his appearance in the first Futurama movie.

Something don't add up here.

[Ubiq]

Sure, the screenplay for the movie adaptations were by Roald Dahl, but the stories were from Ian Fleming... And You Only Live Twice is a James Bond story.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reads exactly like a Roald Dahl work and even has touches that he often included in his work like the recipe for fudge at the end of the book. While it is a children's book, there's really nothing at all of Ian Fleming in it from what I see. If anything, it seems like that Dahl either took a major role in editing it or just wrote the entire book for Fleming in the first place.

Far as You Only Live Twice goes, the film basically used the name of the book, a few characters, and some locations, but everything else was Roald Dahl.

[Giggling Ghast]

I like the comparsion of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory to the Tomb of Horrors.

[Matthias2207]

I like the comparsion of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory to the Tomb of Horrors.

Yes, and it's not that strange. Every room someone is taken out. If it really was a DnD campaign, it's a really hard one or the players keep rolling critical failures.

[Brother Oni]

Yes, and it's not that strange. Every room someone is taken out. If it really was a DnD campaign, it's a really hard one or the players keep rolling critical failures.

Or just really, really stupid.

Never underestimated how dense players can be.

Actually, that makes the children's behaviour in the Chocolate Factory a lot more sense in retrospect...

[hamishspence]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reads exactly like a Roald Dahl work and even has touches that he often included in his work like the recipe for fudge at the end of the book. While it is a children's book, there's really nothing at all of Ian Fleming in it from what I see.

The name "Truly Scrumptious" does sound like it wouldn't be too out of place in a Bond film or book though..

[Dacia Brabant]

Something don't add up here.

In Comic Irregularverse, zero divides by you!

[SaintRidley]

Maybe the next one will be something very different. Like, say, Marmaduke. But not the movie. The comic strip.

[memnarch]

Am I the only person who can't click on the buttons to go to the first comic, or any of the links in the archives? It works fine for me on the actual Darths and Droids comic, but not on any of those, or am I missing something?

Yup. You're missing the knowledge that this is just an old running joke. The Irregulars would have to spend way too much time to add comics for the alternate universe every 50 page editions

[Gez]

Oh my god. The horror they have wrought can never be undone.

[Cikomyr]

Oh my god. The horror they have wrought can never be undone.

Indeed.

AND IT'S AWESOME!!

[Radar]

Oh my god. The horror they have wrought can never be undone.

Serious Jim is a force to be reckoned with. Now roll your SAN check.

[stsasser]

The 'remuneration' is a 1UP anda thena Greedo savesa the princessa. Si?

[Kato]

I'd make a Mario and/or Godfather joke but... no. Okay, how long are they going to drag that joke out? Or will they honestly stick with it?

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Why.
I seriously hope they change this soon, I don't think I can deal with 3 entire movies worth of this character.

[ThePhantom]

Hehe. I like Mario Greedo/Han Solo.

[Peelee]

Man, I had to reread the first Han panel three times to fully grasp what was happening. I think they're gonna keep it. Which will be AWESOME, especially of they spam the comic with Solo Smiles

[Radar]

Man, I had to reread the first Han panel three times to fully grasp what was happening. (...)

Ben's face in the second panel indicates, that he had similar problems.

[Maxios]

...I...I did not see this coming. Not only did the strip itself make me laugh, but the entry beneath the strip about characters from Sicily made me laugh (I'm 1/4th Italian, and my Italian ancestors lived in Sicily)

[The Glyphstone]

Don't you know? You should never trust a Sicilian when Peace(moon) is on the line!

[Anteros]

I liked this comic better when it was about star wars.

[The Glyphstone]

So...the opening crawl of the first comic, then.

[Brother Oni]

I like the look on Leia's face - you can't tell whether she's resigned or being deadpan sarcastic.

[stsasser]

Jim can finally join the Mafia.