This week on View from the Gutters our topic work is:
Star Wars
Story by . . . . Jason Aaron
Art by . . . . . . John Cassaday, Stuart Immonen
Additional Art by . . . . Laura Martin, Simone Bianchi, Justin Ponsor, Wade Von Grawbadger
From Amazon:
The greatest space adventure of all returns to Marvel! Luke Skywalker and the ragtag rebel band opposing the Galactic Empire are fresh off their biggest victory yet – the destruction of the massive Death Star. But the Empire’s not toppled yet! Join Luke, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2 and the rest of the Rebel Alliance as they fi ght for freedom against the evil of Darth Vader and his master, the Emperor!
Tobiah Says:
We’re back after a short (unofficial) break. Things got crazy the last month or so, but hopefully we’ll be back on track until that ancient beast, Father Christmas, rears his mighty horns and belches forth destruction upon us all. On this episode we wax lyrical about Star Wars in all its myriad forms, and kind of discuss the comic a bit around the edges.
Our hosts for this episode are Brant Gillihan-Eddy, Joe Preti, and Tobiah Panshin. On our next episode we will be reading Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt.
A special thank you to our Patreon sponsors for this month: Chris Bianculli, Bryan May, Kar Fedosh, and Addison Appleby.
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Easy-peasy. Define a straight line as the shortest distance between two points. On a flat surface, given a straight line and a point outside that line, it is possible to construct one and only one straight line through that point that will never intersect with the original line. That’s Euclid. (Think train tracks.) On a sphere, where every straight line is an arc of a great circle, all straight lines must eventually converge. (Think lines of longitude meeting at the poles.) And if space is saddle-shaped, straight lines are more like parabolas that follow the curve of the saddle, so it’s possible to construct an infinite number of those through a point, none of which will ever meet the original line because they all curve away from it with differing degrees of steepness. Three types, just like Joe said.