jmaynard just bought a permanent account, and donated his spare time to me. Then vakkotaur followed suit. The result? I have something like 9 months of paid account credit now.

Woo!

Thanks, Jay! Thanks, Vakko!

–Howard

EDIT… no, I read that wrong. I have a paid account through October of 2006.

Wow. Thanks again, guys!

EDIT… Updated total… Thanks to darthparadox and scrubbo I’m paid through sometime in 2009. Um… wow. I guess I need to create some icons and stuff. Oh, and maybe further donations of Paid Account time should be sent to people who are actually, you know, NEEDY. I’m no longer quite the impoverished LJ-freeloader I used to be. 🙂

I drew this today.

click here for the picture

Today’s strip is the one I mentioned a while back, where for the first time ever (for me) I had to fingerpaint to get the artwork right.

Just so you know.

–Howard

You all know David Prowse, of course: he’s the actor who wore the Darth Vader costume in the original Star Wars trilogy, but whose voice was replaced with the voice of James Earl Jones.

Well, in Episode V he has an actual speaking part, and you can see his face.

No, really.

Well… okay. I’m talking about Episode V of the 1981 TV series, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”

David Prowse (billed as Dave Prowse) plays the pinstripe-wearing bodyguard of Hotblack Desiato in Milliways, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. He picks up Ford Prefect (played by David Dixon) by the shoulders, lifting him a good eighteen inches off the ground, and gives him a thuggish talking-to. And honestly, after watching that bit, I can see why Lucas had James Earl Jones voice Darth Vader.

How do I know? Well, I just watched that episode, and confirmed my suspicion with a quick trip to IMDB.

Okay, back to whatever else it was you were doing.