"Too much pink energy is dangerous" It's an old gag, but it checks out

In the movie, when Luke asks about how his father died, Obi-Wan pauses briefly. Back when this was only one movie, it was probably Kenobi going “Oh crap, I have to talk about the massacre.” Now that we have the prequels, however, it’s entirety possible he was doing EXACTLY what Linkara joked about at 25:28 . Also, Luke: How did my father die? Obi-wan: Uhhhhh… Qui-gon’s Force Ghost: He fell down some stairs. Obi-wan: He fell down some stairs.

"I think what made the movie so good, is that Lucas was so scared that it would be bad. I think he obsessed over Star Wars to the point that he was constantly refining it and getting outside opinions on it from peopel he respected until he got it where he wanted it to be and having good sense of having someone rewrite the dialogue that he knew was bad. Basically, Lucas never as afraid of a movie failing than he was in 1977". - SF Debris

There is a simple explanation as to why people still come to the cantina despite the high death rate... Bea Arthur... That is why they come back.

TFS Trunks' internal screaming came to mind during those Luke/Leia moments.

"Why does a stormtrooper in a spaceship need a grappling hook as part of every day equipment?" Because they don't have any railings...

15:43 I love how during his speech, Vader casualy grabs a cup of hot beverage with force. "See Motti?! Those are the powers you're messing with!"

I love how the cat on the couch in Linkara's video keeps quiet. What a nice cat.

An elegant comic, for a more civilized age.

Luke Skywalker: How did my Father died? Obi Wan: Uhhh…Family barbecue

My favorite part of Darklighter is it establishes that Skywalker is actually a perfectly normal name for Tatooine. Last names on Tatooine are all just protagonist names, and I love it. At 28:09 interesting misread, It just saw hive of villainy but the line is so iconic that you read it as the movie version.

The stormtrooper that has an affair with Tarkin isn't even Legends, it's canon. That's the wildest part.

Hiding Luke on Tataiween was a genius idea. Vader hated Sand why would he deliberately visit a desert planet.

New headcanon: when Leia asked if Luke was short for a Stormtrooper, it was the first line of the world's clumsiest seduction attempt cause she figured "to hell with this if I see a ghost of a snowball's chance to rescue myself I'll take it"

Don't you mean, "It's a lot macklunkier?"

"I'll grow back like a worm, and then there'll be TWO of me." Obi Tu Kenobi.

I find it interesting how the movie made Vader a pilot during the trench run. Lucas could have easily had him on the base with Tarkin or move out, but I think even before he made the Anakin/Vader connection there was always meant to be a part of Vader that mirrored aspects of Luke's character.

"There is no death, there is only the OH GOD I WAS WRONG!! THERE IS DEATH AND IT'S INCREDIBLY PAINFUL!! THIS WAS A REALLY HORRIBLE IDEA!!" *sighs in relief."Thank the force that's over with. Where are my clothes?"

Who watches AT4W at 3 am?! Me: Oh boy, AT4W at 3 am!

That crack about plugging a jedi up as a powersource to blow up planets is especially funny to me because Darth Nihlus is a thing. The dude ATE PLANETS.

Missed opportunity: Vader looking for the tapes Batman: Alfred! Get the bat space ship ready and bring me my lightsaber! I found out that Darth Vader prefers VHS over Beta! That son of a b*tch has a new enemy now!

I love the callback to the Star Wars Infinities: A New Hope review with 'What about Kyle Katarn?'. That was amazing.

Considering one of inspirations for Darth Vader was Doctor Doom, him being green on that one cover is ironic in a funny way for me.

40:50 In the movie he corners them and they have to fight back just like in the comic. The reinforcements are green-screened in for the Special Editions.

The green Vader is his saint Patrick’s day suit. He really loves the holiday

“The Force is a switch” is my new favorite thing.

I can't wait for the Vader shot first version of this comic release

Vader getting himself a cuppa joe while lecturing the imperial officers is actually kinda adorable.

Love your co-star, Linkara. 😻🐈

43:11 - “Heed my words.” And my brain immediately jumps to the MST3K retort from Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders: “Munch my shorts!”

About the "immortal gods of the Sith" line, I remember reading that there was a Sith god named Typhojem. He's mentioned in "Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side" as a thing the Sith used to worship, but it's never clarified as to whether he's real or not since he never appears in a story. They don't mention any other Sith gods, immortal or otherwise.

"So whats the Expanded Universe explanation for this Jabba" Since you asked, he is Mosep Binneed, an accountant in charge of Jabba's finances, operating from Mos Eisley. According to the (excellent) novel Kenobi he would occasionally represent Jabba on official business and on those occasions be referred to as Jabba, since he was acting with his full authority.

To be fair Star Wars takes place in the distant past, while Star Trek takes place in the future.

I have something to say about the stormtrooper attack on the Jawas, the Statement actually makes sense. When Obi-wan says "Look at these blast points.", he is referring to scorch marks on the vehicle. Since Blaster Bolt don't go through people, the marks are from all the shots the Troopers missed the Jawas with.

It's funny how Linkara can go into a a loud and proud rant over the anachronistic nature of the cybermen designs in the doctor who/star trek crossover, but whenever it's but whenever it's star wars related he's always "why can't you just roll with it" He knows no one can be more nitpicky than star wars fans

Ah Roy Thomas, never one to just let the image stand without adding even more dialogue in. Yet this oddly worked for the time.

Nice to see you go to the Original Trilogy, hoping you cover the comic adaptations of The Thrawn Trilogy.

Fun fact - General Tagge would later go on to play the Rogue Simulant with the scary voice from the Red Dwarf episode "Beyond a Joke".

31:53 He's Jabba's 'accountant', a Nimbanel named Mossep Bineed... He occasionally represented Jabba's interests in negotiations either too dangeous or too boring for the crime lord to deal with himself.

Seeing early Star Wars is always a fun treat, it's always dated goofyness , dated madness or dated both.

“I haven’t gone by Obi-Wan since before you were born.” Except for that one time, and we all agreed never to bring it up again.

11:24 "But we will still milk a disney + series or two out of them" And thank god they did, because it was the best SW content in decades.

Grappling hook is not standard equipment for a Stormtrooper stationed on a space station, it is standard equipment for all Stormtroopers. So if you have the standard Stormtrooper kit, you have to have the grappling hook and be happy about it.

It makes sense Alec Guiness's the only actor with a nice portrait... as he, and Peter Cushion, were the only famous actors to star on the film.

30:23-30:34 - To be fair, Linkara, given that lightsaber was both Luke's and Anakin's AND given Owen, Beru, and Shmi were almost certainly buried there, it may not be as disrespectful as you think for Luke's symbolic resting place to be with the members of his family he'd feel the closest connection to. I do feel like that scene would've worked better if Ben's Force Ghost popped up alongside Luke and Leia... And that the final shot showed Rey and BB-8 rejoining Poe, Finn, and Chewie on the Falcon before taking off. This has been your daily interjection from a TROS defender.

"Darth Vader, dark lord of the Sith, tightens his fingers on the rebel officer's throat... prompting the officer to respond with 'Harder, daddy'." 27:45 - You joke, but if ep. 6 of the Obi-Wan series is any indication, Owen and Beru did not go down easily. 38:49 - A pretty cool homage to the cover of Fantastic Four #49.

Gotta love the FORCE having MICROTRANSACTIONs joke, especially considering the whole microtransaction debacle with Star Wars: Battlefront II!

'insurance fraud is a hell of a thing.' ..explains why he aged sixty years in twenty.

Happy 15 years of Atop the Fourth Wall, Lewis!

It's actually cheaper to give all the stormtroopers grappling hooks than to put in railing.

Kinda surprised Linkara didn't make a joke about DARTH VADER having the same HATRED of VHS Tapes as BATMAN (or having VADER be pro-VHS & him hunting down the tapes cause the Rebels recorded the Death Star plans on BETA tapes, possibly even framing Vader's antagonism with the REBELs being due to their BATMAN-like anti-VHS philosophy)!

23:51 pretty progressive of the comics to have Bail take his wife's last name

There was a deleted scene from A New Hope where the Imperial Officer who was worried about how well equipped the rebels were, says "this Sith Lord sent by the Emperor will be our undoing"

I would absolutely love to hear your thoughts on Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars (aka "Episode IVa: May the Ferb Be with You"). It's essentially the Star Wars equivalent of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and I love it for that. It might just be the best thing to come out of the Disney era of Star Wars.

It's IMPORTANT to note: Back in the 70's the promotional material like this comic, the color folio book etc all mentioned Vader was a "Dark lord of the SITH" but we had no idea exactly what a "sith" was for like a decade. Seriously, Lucas forgot to fill in that detail to the public. Even by the end of Jedi the word "sith" was never ONCE spoken on screen. Also: We legit thought a full body strike from a lightsaber must disintegrate you. Kenobi was the only person to take a full body shot.

Surprisingly, Uncle Owen looking pissed about Luke mentioning Ben Kenobi seems more in-line with how Owen told Obi-Wan to stay away in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. Maybe the writers for the Obi-Wan series were reading this when writing the series.

25:45 And this is why it baffles me that people give Obi-Wan shit for "liying" to Luke. How the hell do you lay ALL THAT on a teenager?!

This was one of your funniest reviews in a while. I laughed my ass off at the "Disney+ series" gag. Also, in retrospect, why DIDN'T Vader sense Han sneaking up on him in the Falcon? Was ghost Obi-Wan doing that too? Because that would actually make a lot of sense, and lend credence to him becoming more powerful in death.

The comments are going so fast, no one will see my hatred for the current Spider-Man run

Would you say that it was a little..."maclunkier"? ... I'll leave.

54:20 Luke, Han and Leia: STAR WARRIORS, MOVE OUT! Chewbacca: Rrrruuuurrr. C3PO: I completely agree Mr. Chewbacca.

This video is officially certified by the Recommending Ones & Zeros.

Me: "First!" * gets shot * Han Solo with smoking blaster: "No, I'm first."

uncle owen worrying about luke being like his father still without the anakin and vader twist. Given anakin would have still died young and uncle owen would be worried that may happen to luke.

I would love to see Linkara review the Phineas and Ferb Star Wars Episode 4A, May The Ferb Be With You. I want to see him make jokes about the jokes that are in this crossover. It's even better than the Marvel crossover and was my first introduction to Star Wars. Make it happen, Linkara!

>Bail Antilles Wait a minute, so *WEDGE* is Luke's sibling too in this canon. Man, he really piles up the unknown siblings, doesn't he?

Linkara's darth Vader mask is everything. 😎

Cover Vader looks like the hypno toad

49:35 - That's one of my pet peeves with A New Hope too, we see Luke training with the lightsaber and obviously set up a duel between Luke and Vader, but it never happens. But on the flipside, there's not really any way you could organically fit a duel into the plot. It's weird.

43:33 Did Vader just used his lightsaber to lift the cloak? How does that work? I'm pretty sure the cloak would be cut rather than lifted XD

41:23 - "Why does a stormtrooper who works on a space station need a grappling hook as part of their everyday equipment?" Stormtrooper: "Because ... I'm BATMAN!"

Fun fact about the comic calling Darth Vader the "Dark Lord of the Sith" even though the term is never spoken in the trilogy. As we saw from looking at The Star Wars, there were a ton of rewrites about what a Sith is. In official statements, Darth Vader was referred to as a Sith Lord, but there was next to nothing about what that meant. Similar deal, it was explained in supplemental materials what the name of Luke's father was (we even saw some pre-Empire Strikes Back comics featuring flashbacks with him and Darth Vader depicted as two different people). Since the term Sith didn't get much use before the prequels, evil users of the Force were frequently called "Dark Jedi," including Vader and the Emperor.

It’s so odd how the theme song and the cantina song go so well together.

I had a trading card of R5 back in the day. According to it, he blew his own motivator as a means of keeping R2 and 3PO together.

9:53 "Despite 3PO's whiny objections" is something you could say of any time 3PO has to do something involving danger and/or shenanigans.

Missed a opportunity to have linkvader go "noooooooo" after being told he's not cool anymore at 16:18

Oh boy Linkara at 3:30 am!

Happy 2023 everybody!

I could have sworn Linkara already reviewed these comics. One of them had something about a spacer graveyard and creating Wookie porn? Guess I am imagining things.

Vader enjoys a good cup of coffee nice 🙂. The best part of waking up, is darkside in your cup ☕

The thing that bugs me about the explanation of luke calling R5 an R2 unit is that it's entirely in character for Luke to make that mistake. He's a moister farmer on a dead end rock of a planet. I doubt he knows or cares about droid classification

Is it really that unbelievable that the space equivalent of a redneck teenager with a hero complex would carry around a grappling hook just cuz he thought it was cool? I knew plenty of kids who did stuff like that.

I'd like to address this issue of Luke's burial, specifically the charge that it seems disrespectful or ruins the moment/message/whatever you call it. It is clear in A New Hope that Luke hates his life on Tatooine. But it isn't that straightforward. We must ask why he hates his life there to assess whether burial there would ruin it. We know that Owen is keeping him from the Academy, partly because he needs help on the farm, but also to shield him from the true identity of his father. It is really the restriction of Luke to a nowhere planet that Luke hates. Give him one or two semesters at the Academy, and his tune about Tatooine could change. I myself hated where I lived when I went to college, but once I had a couple years of schooling, I was ready to return "home." And yes, I stayed at my school over the summers and holidays. Luke's attitude also shifts a bit once he sees the massacre at the farm. He doesn't say "fine. I've had it with this place. I always wanted to be gone." It's simply "there's nothing left for me here. I want to follow the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father." These are not the words of a young man harboring animosity for a world or home. There was something about being kept on Tatooine that he disliked. This attitude continues in Return when he and Han are on the skiff. He says "there's nothing to see. I used to live here, you know." It's not "There's nothing to see. This place is just a sand dump. Totally worthless." Luke's attitude has grown a bit from the first time we see him. Simply put, there's nothing in his demeanor to suggest he has an absolute hatred of Tatooine anymore. The other issue is simple. Even if he did, would Rey have known that? Would it be reasonable for her to understand this? Would her action therefore be disrespectful? Maybe. Maybe not. I do believe that last scene of Rise is the most misunderstood scene in the entire sequels. And it is partly earned. There are themes at work that are supposed to be fulfilled there. It just isn't always clear. But to say Luke's burial on Tatooine is somehow disrespectful or harmful is much like the criticisms of Luke's behavior in Last Jedi. It really only works if you adhere to a certain belief about Luke, in this case, the idea that he hated Tatooine completely. It doesn't hold up too much when you step back and really look at the big picture.

A fine review, nice start to the year and I'm always glad to see older comics on this show honestly. So really, great job Linkara. It's important to see how Star Wars evolved over the decades in all forms of media, I think it does us well to recognize how strange and wonderful this weird little kid's story about space wizards really is.

OMG, I have binged your atop the fourth wall from episode one till this episode, I love your content! You're amazing and I hope to see far more in the future. Keep up the amazing work!

14:25 The "Encounter at Farpoint" clip made my day.

"Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time... it's got to have been at least three days..."

The design for Jabba the Hutt was never actually finalized until Return of the Jedi, before that he was alternatively the alien we see here and a guy who looked like an extra from Conan

As a Star Wars fan from childhood in walking distance from a library, I read this book so many times growing up and it is wild seeing it get a review. Also love the shout-out to Tarkin and TK-421

I don't think I've ever been this early to a vid before, a neat experience, can't wait to see the rest of the video later

29:01 Funny thing is he HAS been cutting people's arms off in bars since before Luke was born given what he did to Zam in Episode 2.

Yeah, both this comic and the original novelization are interesting looks at what would come with the film. The novel actually spelling out the Droids names instead of just the letters and numbers. Small edit mistake in the credits: you said Leia was too tall, not too short, for the medal on Chewbacca. And this makes me think of a Rancor-sized Leia.

I enjoyed the Vader cutaways they crack me up 😂

Ok, now I wanna see a cut of ANH that just adds all of Anakin's TPM space battle lines, but in Vader's voice. *heavy beathing* "I'll try spinning!" *breath* "That's a neat trick!"

It's good to know you en joyed the Obi Wan series too. Makes me really hope somebody patrons you to review it at some point.

On that note about Star Wars' need to just not let mistakes be mistakes? What's weird about that explanation you mentioned is that they actually had a much better one that was way simpler which was that R2s were so common in the galaxy that the term "R2 unit" just became a genericized term to refer to an astromech kind of like how we refer to any tissue as a kleenex or how we use the word "Google". It's simpler, works for the universe and also doesn't feel like the universe is just breaking its back trying to rectify a simple mistake.

37:08 "One of the stormtroopers was having a secret love affair with Tarkin." 😳Wait, no foolin'? I seriously thought that was just a goofy side-story to ANI, the Star Wars parody musical. 😂The extended universe really IS wild!

I know why Jabba didn't look like a slug in this comic- no one really knew what he was supposed to look like when the movie was made. The scene where Han Solo talks to Jabba outside the Millennium Falcon originally had a tall chubby guy dressed in a barbarian getup act as Jabba. The actor was just a stand-in for what Lucas originally planned to replace with whatever design they were going to go with, and the comic artists, after being told that the barbarian guy was supposed to look more like an alien, took a creative liberty and made Jabba an alien Chester Arthur. The slug form as we know him was designed in preproduction of "Return of the Jedi," but by that point the Marvel comic was around for years so Alien Chester Arthur is the Legends Jabba.

So, for those of you who don't know, all of the Tuskens in A New Hope were named (Because it's Star Wars, nobody is ever "just some guy" in Star Wars), and in particular, the one who attacks Luke was named URoRRuR'R'R, until 2017, where he was renamed A'Koba.

This is right up there as one of my favorite of your reviews. Just pure joy here joking about the comic and the continuity (Luke x Leia romance is so gross in hindsight). Also, what you said in the end credits about Luke observing the battle over Tatooine contrasting with him watching the Battle of Endor would've been so *chef's kiss* Fantastic job! 🤩