#BLUE MAX

[deutschland-im-krieg]

22 victory ace and Pour le Mérite (Blue Max) holder, Hauptmann Hermann Göring, Geschwaderkommandeur of JG I, next to his all-white Fokker D.VII (5125/18), 1918. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

[asknamcohighfan-comics]

“again

nice try”

-Davesprite

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[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[cantsayidont]

April 1979. One of the recurring characters in the Brian Daley Han Solo novels is Bollux, a very old labor droid whose slow, shambling gait and laconic speech pattern belie his wisdom and ingenuity. Bollux has been modified to carry a sentient computer probe called Blue Max, who rides in a compartment in Bollux's chest. In HAN SOLO AT STARS' END, Bollux explains, to Han and Chewbacca's surprise, that he actually volunteered for this unusual modification, seeing it as a way to stave off obsolescence, which he likens to death. Han does not take this well, leading to the following exchange:

Han jumped to his feet, mad without knowing exactly why, except that he felt dumb for arguing with a junk-heap ’droid. He decided to tell Bollux just what a deluded, misfit chump the old labor ’droid really was. “Bollux, do you know what you are?” “Yessir, a smuggler, sir,” Bollux responded promptly. Han, confused, looked at the ’droid for a moment, his mouth hanging open, taken off balance by the reply. Even a labor ’droid ought to recognize a rhetorical question, he thought. “What did you say?” “I said, ‘Yessir, a smuggler, sir,’” Bollux drawled, “like yourself. One who engages in the illegal import or export of”—his metal forefinger pointed down at Blue Max, nestled in his thorax—“concealed goods.” Chewbacca, paws clasped to his stomach, was rolling around on the acceleration couch, laughing in hysterical grunts, kicking his feet in the air. Han’s temper blew. “Shut up!” he shouted at the ’droid. Bollux, again with that strange literalness, obediently swung his chest panels closed. Chewbacca’s laughter had him close to suffocation, as tears appeared around his tight-shut eyes. Han began looking around for a wrench or a hammer, or another instrument of technological mayhem, not intending to have any ’droid one-up him and survive to tell the tale.

The newspaper strip adaptation doesn't include the above conversation, but Bollux does remark:

[plus-low-overthrow]

Oliver Sain - Party Hearty (Contempo)

Doublesider w/ 'Apricot Splash', 1975.

[nuvamata]

(link to original)

[softnoisedry]

Blue Max

[archfey-edda]

Sentinel

[katsinspats]

Who will pray for me? // Who will pray for you?

Colour studies from Nerdy Prudes Must Die!! I was experimenting a lot with these, so I'm really happy with how these turned out :^)

[lovertm]

character keychains, part 4 by winterrkatt

[deutschland-im-krieg]

28 victory ace and Pour le Mérite (Blue Max) holder Oberleutnant Robert Ritter von Greim in front of his Fokker Dr.I triplane, 1918. He was the last person to be promoted to Generalfeldmarschall in WW2, when Hitler appointed him the new head of the Luftwaffe on 24 April 1945, in the Führerbunker. Injured by flak on the flight into Berlin, he was flown out by the great Flugkapitän Hanna Reitsch in the last plane to leave Berlin on 28 April 1945. He committed suicide in prison on 24 May 1945. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

[retrocgads]

UK 1985

[arttuff]

happy #pridemonth from the #justiceleague

[packet-of-staples]

I doodled a bunch of dumb memes for funnies and also to try and get my bearings.

[2012-04-18]

[peoplesprincessgeorge]

f1 + txt posts = true 2.0