I feel like I really dropped the ball when I didn’t know about CollegeHumor’s original web series, ‘Troopers’ until last night. Troopers follows the tale of two “Stormtrooper-like” soldiers and their life on a “Death Star-like” space station in a “Star Wars-like” universe. Get it? Unfortunately, you don’t have to be too bright to work to be a Trooper. The job of holding and interrogating a Princess who is leading the rebellion is left to the same hands that deliver the coffee and pastries in the morning. Troopers almost reminds me of the hilarious back and forth banter that we came to enjoy from ‘Red Vs Blue’ from Rooster Teeth. What makes this series even better is that the loveable and witty Aubrey Plaza (Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World, Parks and Recreations) stars in the series as the Princess. So far, there has been four episode released by CollegeHumor titled, “Forcefield”, “Mind Trick”, “Coffee Run”, and “Interrogation”. If you are a die-hard ‘Star Wars’ fan, you will definitely find some enjoyment from this series.
Hit the jump to check out the first four episodes of ‘Troopers’!
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Like many ‘Star Wars’ fans, we just can’t get the image of Luke getting tucked away neatly inside the stomach of a TaunTaun by Han Solo in ‘The Empire Strikes Back’. It looked pretty gross and kind of made you think that you can smell it as well. Well, thanks to Erin AKA CruxisAurion, we kind of get a “unofficial” glimpse into what it may look like inside.
It’s a Tauntaun skeleton!
I used an image of a Tauntaun, that I found online, to get the the proportions correct. Then I began designing the creature’s skeleton based on actual animals, and using educated guesses, I imagined what the skeleton of this creature would look like if it were real. After the design was approved by my teacher, I drew the skeleton in pencil VERY TEDIOUSLY, and then went about colouring it.
Yeah, sure… the illustration doesn’t show the guts and the intestines like we want, but this is pretty cool anyhow. I can just imagine Luke stuffed inside that TaunTaun like a chicken in a turducken. Also, wouldn’t be awesome to go to a museum and see a skeleton of a TaunTaun or even a Rancor? It sure beats looking at stuffed elephants and antelopes.
Hit the jump and check out Erin’s cool “TaunTaun” skeleton illustration!
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