Bully's Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar Countdown 2012: Day 13

It's Lucky Day Thirteen (everybody knows 13 is, after 1138, the luckiest number in the Star Wars Expanded Universe), and let's go back to the Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar! What's behind the door? Could it be a llama? I hope it's a llama. A spaaaaaaaace llama!


Come out come out whatever you are!


This one is pretty simple: just four little black plastic parts. Help me snap them together, won't you? (By which I mean, take a look at the next photo to see that I have put them together by myself.)


Aieeeee! It's evil Sith Droid Darth D-2! Please do not choke me with your force hold/extensor claw, Darth D-2! Actually, I cannot tell a lie: it's Imperial astromech droid R2-Q5, the cousin that R2-D2 never bleeps about. He did evil droid stuff aboard the second Death Star until Lando blew it up. Boom!

A Hanna-Barbera Christmas, Day 13: Look out, girls! Yogi is gonna eat that carrot!

Cover of The Powerpuff Girls #12 (April 2001), pencils and inks by Phil Moy

Today in Comics History, December 13, 2010: The Daily Planet is invaded by Spaceballs

from Superman #706 (DC, February 2011), script by G. Willow Wilson, pencils and inks by Amilcar Pinna, colors by Rod Reis, letters by John J. Hill

366 Days with Alfred Pennyworth, Day 347

Panels from Batman: Gotham After Midnight #9 (March 2009), script by Steve Niles, pencils and inks by Kelley Jones, colors by Michelle Madsen, letters by Pat Brosseau

The Eight Nights of Comic Book Hanukkah, Night Five: BEST HANUKKAH GIFT EVER

from "Rock of Ages!" in Marvel Holiday Magazine 2010 (DC, 2010); script by Stan Lee; pencils, inks, and colors by Nick Dragotta; letters by Dave Sharpe

Today in Comics History, December 12, 1834 and 1957: Men of indeterminate but probably Italian ancestry are born but later die

from "The Eighth Deadly Sin, Part Two: Original Sin" in Detective Comics Annual #11 (DC, December 2009), script by Fabian Nicieza, pencils and inks by Tom Mandrake, colors by Nathan Eyring, letters by John J. Hill


from Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book #3 (Marvel, February 1992), script and pencils by Evan Dorkin, inks by Stephen DeStefano, colors by Robbie Busch, letters by Kurt Hathaway

Bully's Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar Countdown 2012: Day 12

What will wefind in my Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar today? Will it be a Kaiburr crystal? Possibly a Krayt dragon? Or maybe a Death Spiral (note: not the nickname for Princess Leia's hairstyle)?


No! It is that well-known Star Wars artifact, the plastic bag o' bits. Do not eat them!


If you snap them together correctly (and believe me, I've tried every which way!), you get yourself a T-47 snowspeeder, as seen in the best Star Wars film, The Star Wars Holiday Special The Empire Strikes Back.


Zoom! Zoom! I'm off to bullseye ice-womp-rats and snow-banthas. See you tomorrow! May the Legoforce be with you!

A Hanna-Barbera Christmas, Day 12: The Year Santa Claus Got a Hideous Skin Disease

Cover of Scooby-Doo #127 (DC series, February 2008), art by Scott Neely

Today in Comics History, December 11, 1991: Bill and Ted meet Morpheus from Sandman

from Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book #3 (Marvel, February 1992), script and pencils by Evan Dorkin, inks by Stephen DeStefano, colors by Robbie Busch, letters by Kurt Hathaway

366 Days with Alfred Pennyworth, Day 346

Panel from "The Man Who Radiated Fear!" in Batman #200 (March 1968), script by Mike Friedrich, pencils by Chic Stone, inks by Joe Giella, letters by Gaspar Saladino

The Eight Nights of Comic Book Hanukkah, Night Four: It's a Very Colossal Hanukkah with Gim Allon

from "Star Light, Star Bright...Farthest Star I See Tonight!" in DC Special Series #21 [Super-Star Holiday Special] (DC, Spring 1980), script by Paul Levitz, pencils by José Luis Garcia-López, inks by Dick Giordano, colors by Adrienne Roy, letters by Ben Oda

Today in Comics History, December 11: We are reminded that bananas exist

from The Unwritten #35.5 (DC/Vertigo, May 2012), plot by Peter Gross, script by Mike Carey, pencils and inks by Gabriel Hernandez Walta, colors by Lee Loughridge, letters by Todd Klein

Bully's Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar Countdown 2012: Day 11

Door number eleven and the thrills haven't ceased for one minute! Why, the only way this Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar could even disappoint me is to include some characters from Episode One!


Oh, poop.


It's one of those B1 Battle Droids that amused us so much in the prequels! "Roger roger!" Oh man, how we laffed and laffed. And for once, the extra bits actually make some sense, because you can swap out the droid's arms so he can hold things upright or sideways! Useful if you put him to work as a bartender. Nobody wants their blue milk served sideways.


Extra parts are now being collected in my handy cereal bowl. I hope to have it overflowing soon. See ya tomorrow for more of Bully's Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar Countdown 2012!

A Hanna-Barbera Christmas, Day 11: And now, Hanna-Barbera's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"

Cover of Dell Giant #41 ([Yogi Bear's Winter Sports]) (February 1961), pencils by Pete Alvarado, painted colors by Norm McGary

Today in Comics History December 8: Batman enjoys doing pencil puzzlers

from "The Vampire of Steel" in World's Finest Comics #249 (DC, February 1978), script by Bob Haney, pencils by Kurt Schaffenberger, inks by Tex Blaisdell, colors by Michele Wolfman, letters by Ben Oda

Today in Comics History: Once and for all, it is established that homicide investigations are not like narco busts

Panel from Gotham Central #26 (February 2005), script by Ed Brubaker, pencils and inks by Jason Alexander, colors by Lee Loughridge, letters by Clem Robins

366 Days with Alfred Pennyworth, Day 345

Panels from Batman Incorporated v.1 #6 (June 2011), script by Grant Morrison, pencils and inks by Chris Burnham, colors by Nathan Fairbairn, letters by Pat Brosseau

The Eight Nights of Comic Book Hanukkah, Night Three: At last, a comic book without somebody punching somebody

from "Lights" in DCU Infinite Holiday Special one-shot (DC, February 2007), script by Greg Rucka, pencils and inks by Christian Alamy, colors by Jason Wright, letters by Jared K. Fletcher

Bully's Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar Countdown 2012: Day 10

It's Day Ten! Or, if you're speaking the binary language of load lifters, Day Two.


Looking at it from a different angle, Lego minikit #10 appears to be a spaceship of some kind. Let's check it out! be sure to wear safety goggles! We don't actually need them, but I think they look cool.


This one looks easier to put together than yesterday's! Let me try it with my eyes closed.


Well, that all worked out. It's the Imperial shuttle Tydirium! Star of its own series of Expanded Universe stories, Titanic Tales of the Tydirium! Not many people know that the Tydirium originally moonlighted as a Corellian shuttle that took a young man to school where he learned to shoot first! And that Corellian was...Anson Blazer! And now you know...the rest of the Expanded Universe story!

Today in Comics History: The weather is the same as before

Panels from the Batman comic strip (December 10, 1989); script by Max Allan Collins, art by Marshall Rogers
(Click picture to Sunday funnisize)

A Hanna-Barbera Christmas, Day 10: Headline: Four meddling kids and a dog discovered with their heads bitten off

Cover of Scooby-Doo #43 (DC series, February 2001)

366 Days with Alfred Pennyworth, Day 344

Panel from Batman/Captain America one-shot (December 1996), script, pencils, inks, and letters by John Byrne; colors by Patricia Mulvihill; color separations by Jamison

The Eight Nights of Comic Book Hanukkah, Night Two: Spidey loves latkes

from Daken: Dark Wolverine #9.1 (Marvel, July 2011), script by Rob Williams, pencils and inks by Ron Garney, colors by Jason Keith, letters by Cory Petit

Bully's Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar Countdown 2012: Day 9

It's Day 9 of 25 in my Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar Countdown! And you know what that means...we get to open another door! I've gotten pretty good at this and hardly ever need to get out my Fisher-Price crowbar.


As the King of Siam would say, a puzzlement! A puzzlement indeed! I have a large assortment of white, grey, red and blue pieces that ought to form something from the Star Wars Universe. What do you think it is? Is it C-3PO's American cousin, USA-PO? Could be!


Hey look: Luke Skywalker to the rescue! Can you help me assemble these pieces, Luke? Hey, if some don't fit, you can always use...Force!


Ah ha! It's the Statue of Liberty's right arm! You know, the one on Coruscant. Yes, Coruscant has one of those too. Why would you think they wouldn't?


So that's what it was...an X-Wing Starfighter! And the wings really move up and down. "Lock air foils into attack position, guys! Not so fast, Porkins!" Haw!


It's a little too small for minifig Luke, but it does come with a tiny blue nubbin that represents R2-D2! Uh oh, he's been hit by lasers and he's on fire. Drat that Empire!


Also, as you could see above, there were more extra pieces, Here's the assortment of extra pieces I have so far. I think I'm going to be able to create the Devastator with them. I just need a few more spare pieces.

Today in Comics History: Over eight dollars and change is raised in support of the earwig

Panel from Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book #3 (February 1992), script and pencils by Evan Dorkin, inks by Stephen DeStefano, colors by Robbie Busch, letters by Kurt Hathaway

Today in Comics History: The Empire State Building gains sentience

Panel from Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time #3 (July 2009), script by Brian Clevinger, pencils and inks by Scott Wegener, colors by Ronda Pattison, letters by Jeff Powell

A Hanna-Barbera Christmas, Day 9: "It's a living."

Cover of The Flintstones #37 (Charlton series, May 1975), pencils and inks by Ray Dirgo