Whell...
You're going to have to cast yourself back in time a bit here and remember these stories were done in the early 90's. Yeah, that's Ronnie.
And let's all pretend that last panel was a joke at Phantom Menace okay?
90's
It's a bit weird to look back at this story 20 years later. It was done before Gulf War I or at least early on and before we were really aware of it's significance. We also hadn't really gotten a hang of the balance between silly adventure and social satire that we eventually aspired to. Still trying to find that balance in fact.
2 thoughts on “Dressed For Success – This Star – Page 5”
Stephen Bolhafner
So I was rereading along and hit this – was that Ronnie? How could it NOT be Ronnie? But Ronnie as Obi-Wan? Obi-Wan as The Establishment? (Hey, I was 12 in 1968, and that’s what we called Them then, and well into the 70s, through Watergate and my college years …)
As an almost-once-believer in the Jedi Religion, I advance with trepidation, as it is obvious that your savage satire knows no boundaries. And you know what? That is as it should be, young Skywalker. Obi Wan was also, after all, the British prisoner of war officer in “Bridge over the River Kwai.” There cannot not be a whiff of “Establishment” about him.
I had forgotten this, but I had also remembered that I liked it at the time. Looking forward to more.
Chris
There are elements of our universe that we are still revealing. Obviously that wasn’t Ronald Reagan, but also, it was. There have been others like him, most recently in the Mississauaga Jay story. It’s all part of the backstory to our world. An idea we once thought as silly and funny that gets closer to reality all the time. Don’t take the mashups too literally.
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