Disney has created a new tradition for me around Christmas. It really is the perfect time for them to release their annual Star Wars movie what with families getting together and all that. Launching it weeks before Christmas also guarantees people are going to see it multiple times. At least once on the opening week and at least once with family during, or around actual Christmas. That’s what I’ve been doing literally every year since Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens launched in 2015. My point is the Star Wars effect is bleeding into the New Year and I have to drum up some content on the subject, or else my brain is going to explode from the steroid that is Star Wars.

The following twenty-five comics sample the entirety of the Star Wars mythology from video games, to all of the movies, and even to TV. They were a lot easier to find than my last comic article about Naruto let me tell you. I got so engrossed with my research that I ended with almost a hundred pictures before I realized I needed to stop in order to sort them all out. Suffice it to say I have many more sequels potentially at the ready for you fine folks if that call is ever needed. The selections I picked will ring in the New Year with laughter whether you find movie comparison hilarious, or if you dream about Yoda pitching cereal to you. Oh and be warned. There are potential spoilers ahead.

25 Yoda-Os

I scoured YouTube for what felt like hours looking for old cereal commercials of Star Wars products. While cereal has existed for the franchise for a while I couldn’t find anything to the effect of this comic’s tagline. It seems so perfect. The one that kept coming up was, of course, the Admiral Akbar parody commercial from Robot Chicken. That’s good too, but bringing balance to the force and breakfast? Come on that’s too perfect. Are ad agencies too afraid that of using that in fear of being sued by the author of this comic, or are they just afraid of being too cheesy with this? It can’t be the latter, because the merchandise that exists right now borderlines on treason. There are fidget spinners people!

24 Piggyback Training

The Last Jedi has been a pretty divisive movie. Some think it’s amazing while others lump it into the prequels aka bad. I land somewhere in the middle. Anyway, part of the controversy for those that don’t like it fall on Luke. They feel he’s misrepresented in the movie almost like he’s a whole other person. I get that. He basically became a grumpy old hermit and shirked his Jedi duties because he made one mistake. Wouldn’t it have been great if he went even crazy like Yoda was in The Empire Strikes Back? You know like laugh at random stuff, hit Rey with sticks, and jump on her back. That training montage would have been amazing. This comic is the next best thing though.

23 Force Quit

I often imagine what life would be like with Star Wars being a reality namely if we could all tap into the Force. It’s like imagining life with magic from Harry Potter as well. Life would be so much simpler. Even the most mundane things like opening doors, or bringing the remote over to you even though it’s only like a foot away. Now I’m sure we’ve all pretended to open an automatic door by using the Force right? I pretty much do it every time I see one. Now imagine if you could rage quit with the force, or Force quit if you will. If Kylo Ren existed when this comic was drawn, it would have made for a better joke, but it’s still funny as is.

22 Darth Snowman

Speaking of Kylo Ren and temper tantrums, I wonder how raising him when he was still Ben Solo. Like how young did Han and Leia start to notice his affinity for the dark side and or an interest in the force? I almost want to see a flashback of him as a pleasant person, but that may ruin him like the prequels ruined Darth Vader. They diminished how cool he was when you found out how much of a whiny brat Anakin was as a teenager and for that matter how bad of an actor he was. Han’s comment is somewhat right in this comic, but he is to blame too. He may get his rage from his grandfather, but Han wasn’t the nicest guy either in his younger days.

21 Hug Snub

If J.J. Abrams directed and or wrote The Last Jedi, I wonder if the cliffhangers left in The Force Awakens would have been answered. Like the end of the movie where Leia and Rey run toward each other, speechless. They hug, both knowing why: Han is dead. Here’s the thing though. Why would Leia brush past Chewbacca, a person she’s known for decades and Han’s best friend, to hug some noob? I assumed it was a hint that Leia was her mom and that Rey finally realized it in this scene. It didn’t need to be explicitly said though. That was my theory at least. Turns out she belongs to nobody important. Now that we know that this scene makes no sense. Thanks for siding with my confusion Dorkly.

20 Fear Of Ewoks

Hardcore fans of Star Wars seem to have a weird thing about cute stuff in the series. Like when the Porgs were shown off in the first official full-length trailer of The Last Jedi. People lost their minds comparing them to the Ewoks. I actually should say that was stated by two sides. One with the Ewoks being terrible and one with the Ewoks being cute. Personally, the Ewoks aren’t my favorite, but I still think Return of the Jedi is my favorite movie despite their overpowered nature. That’s right. I find it hard to believe that trained Stormtroopers could lose to a bunch of Home Alone like traps set by a bunch of Care Bear wannabes. That’s basically what happens except with no Macaulay Culkin.

19 Lucas’ Master Plan

Ah ha, I knew it! This had to be George Lucas’ thoughts before he made the prequels. This was a man who was basically against his own company. Success can do a lot of things to a person especially when that thing sort of becomes so ingrained in the culture that it’s impossible to escape from it. I understand him wanting to be done with Star Wars after Return of the Jedi, but he finally caved when technology became what he wanted it to be for his vision. At least that’s what he wanted you to think. In actuality, he aimed to create garbage so bad no one would ask Lucas to make a Star Wars trilogy ever again. I'll give you a slow clap for that one George.

18 Fell For It Again

George Lucas’ constant tinkering with re-releases of Star Wars is a mystery to me though. It’s like okay George you had your fun. You destroyed fans ever hoping to see you write and direct anything ever again. You win. Why then would he screw with every new release of the original trilogy? The prequel trilogy I get. You can do whatever you want to that, but stop mucking up the originals. The CG just looks out of place. Sure there are flaws with every one of the first three movies, but that’s fine. You don’t need to course correct them on a constant level. Now I say that, but like every fan, as depicted above, we’re also curious to see how it turns out. Like a train wreck, we can’t look away.

17 Chink In The Armor

You know what forget what I said about the Ewoks. It turns out that Stormtroopers just suck in general. I mean what do you expect? They’re basically cannon fodder for the good guys to look good. You know, except for key Stormtroopers like Finn jokes in the comic. Only his armor is impervious to the most basic of attacks. Also, how did that Stormtrooper smear blood on Finn in the beginning of The Force Awakens anyway? I mean lasers are supposed to cauterize the wound right making blood impossible. Eh, but what do I know. Either way it stands to reason that their armor is as plastic as it looks aka it’s worthless in combat. Finn got out of his outfit just in the nick of time.

16 The Name Game

What’s in a name really? As a culture, I think we’ve become obsessed with them especially when it comes to media. Since we’ve become connected via the Internet and with our phones, the days seem longer. Before you could go days without hearing from someone and that would be normal. Now if you text someone and they don’t respond within minutes something has to be wrong. The same can be said for the aforementioned media. We’ve become so hungry for news that even the smallest thing can feel like a full course meal. Take this Han Solo movie business. People waited forever to hear a name and unsurprisingly it disappointing a lot of people. Again though, what’s really in a name? Star Wars is iconic now, but a pretty dumb name when you think about it.

15 A Slave Of Passion

Speaking of being connected on a constant basis, what kind of networking does the Star Wars universe have? Sure they can communicate with holograms, but what’s their Internet like? As far as I’ve seen there is nothing of the sort, which is strange. Actually, that’s really not that weird at all. The original trilogy was made before the Internet and the prequel trilogy was made when the Internet was just getting good. That is to say, how could they incorporate the Internet into those stories without sounding weird? Anyway this comic poses the question of what if Star Wars characters had the Internet. If Luke wanted to see his sister, or girls like her in a slave outfit, well it’d be easy. Criminally easy you could say.

14 I’m Han Solo

Please, a moment of silence for Microsoft’s Kinect… Okay, thank you. Phew, now it’s time to rag on it. Oh, but that would take up too much time in this one article so I’ll save that blast for another time. I will say this though. The device was ambitious as were some of the games, but most of them fell into the mini game category. A Star Wars Kinect game sounded amazing at the time until people finally played it and found out that it’s pretty much just a mini-game collection. One of those games is a dance competition wherein your favorite heroes teach you how to boogie while singing parody songs about themselves. Ah, so that’s why Kylo really left his family. I’d be embarrassed too Kylo.

13 Who Needs Lightsabers?

Lightsabers have become a thing of the past in the new trilogy. Sure they’re still incredibly powerful on like a God tier level, but it looks like the technicians in the Star Wars universe have finally found a way to mimic their nature. There’s whatever that thing the Stormtrooper used on Finn in The Force Awakens on the planet Takodana. Snoke’s red guards had all kinds of lightsaber like heated weapons. Basically what I’m saying is the other three pieces of gear pictured in this comic don’t look that far off from what we could see in Star Wars Episode IX. Give me that lightsaber mace and shield right now! Maybe then the Stormtroopers wouldn’t die all the time. I guess they’d need a bigger shield though.

12 The Hero

When you really think about it Luke Skywalker was kind of a brat in the original Star Wars. His aunt and uncle wanted him to stay on the farm to help them out, but all he wants to do is join the Empire for training. He doesn’t kick and scream like in the comic, but again he does get whiney. Not that hard to imagine now that we know how Darth Vader acted as a teenager when he was still Anakin. Rey, on the other hand, is ready for action. She wants to see her family and will do anything to make that happen, which then turns into helping Finn and protecting him no matter what. Point is Rey is the better hero from the start, or at least more likeable.

11 The Villain

On the other side of the coin let’s look at the main villains of Star Wars and The Force Awakens. Leaving Vader’s past out of the equation, aka the aforementioned whiny brat that was Anakin, Vader is a total BAMF. Everyone is afraid of him and his power. As far as they know he’s the last Jedi, or Sith, or whatever in the galaxy. He’s a legend through and through. Who is Kylo Ren? He’s just some twerp who wants to be Vader so bad. Sure he’s his grandson, but the kid is about as whiny as Anakin was. Maybe eventually he’ll become a BAMF like Vader, but for now, I can totally see him being a fan of My Chemical Romance and Tim Burton. It’s so fitting.

10 Same Old Star Wars

Before Rogue One came out this comic made a lot of sense. I mean we knew what the general plot of the movie was going to be even before we saw a trailer. A group of rebels will infiltrate the Empire in order to get their hands on the Death Star plans. There’s going to be a lot of shooting lasers in space and in other areas. Oh right, and of course Darth Vader is going to be in it. This is the perfect summary of the film without any spoilers. Even though it was only a prediction it nailed it right on. Star Wars pretty much is just a recurring series of lightsaber battles and lasers flying around while people occasionally talk. They even knew there wasn’t going to a text crawl. How amazing is that?

9 Darn Those Wookies

I’m pretty sure this comic is making fun of The Force Unleashed. You know, the game set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope about Vader’s secret apprentice. Part of the marketing of that game showcased your character, Starkiller, using the force to fling Stormtroopers around like they were made out of marshmallows. Not only that, but you can throw ships around as well. It’s a flawed game, but I enjoyed it for what it was. Anyway that debate aside, I often wonder how awkward it must be for the Stormtrooper that has to break bad news to the families of the soldiers that die. They must make hundreds if not thousands of calls a day. It must make for a busy, awkward life.

8 Porgs For Life

When the first official trailer came out for The Last Jedi I watched it on repeat probably like seven times in a row and that was just the first day. It was so good! There’s a lot one could dissect from it, but like I mentioned earlier the one thing that stood out was the Porg. Of course this wasn’t our first introduction to the little weird owl things. The merchandise dropped months before the film debuted as it has since The Force Awakens. There was a bunch of Porg stuff, which looked cute, but we really didn’t have anything to go off of until this trailer came out. Sure they may be there as useless creatures to tug at your heartstrings, but gosh darn it I love them and anyone who doesn’t has a cold, dark, cynical heart.

7 Tentacles on the Helmet

We know very little about Boba Fett. Eh, I guess that’s not entirely true. He grew up with his clone brothers and with his father Jango. He watched said father die by being beheaded by a Jedi so yeah, he must have lead a pretty screwed up life What I mean to say is we have no idea what’s really going on under that helmet. You know, in terms of what turns that blaster on if you know what I mean. Maybe he threw himself into the Sarlacc on purpose. After all it does look like a women’s, uh, you know. Except with 100% more tentacles and teeth. Maybe he isn’t dead after all and is instead just enjoying the pleasures of the Sarlacc for all eternity.

6 Swiss Army Saber

Just what the heck is up with Kylo Ren’s lightsaber? I feel it was created for the sheer purpose of making something new for the franchise, which it is, but the functionality isn’t there. Maybe Kylo had to hack together a lightsaber since those Kyber crystals are rare. It looks unstable so in a way the cross guard is used to sort of bypass any excess pressure on the main blade. Not sure if that’s the official reason from the lore masters of Star Wars, or not, but it sounds plausible. Another great theory is formed here. What if the blade is actually like a Swiss Army Knife in that it can transform? Wouldn’t that be a cool reveal for Episode IX? Behold, my scissor and fork combo of doom!