Lucan Industries (© misterkhan 1995)


Making friends etc.

Danny just wrote something about writing not getting any better, I haven’t really read it because Danny’s nearly illiterate but it did remind me it was about time I lashed out at something for no apparent reason and with seemingly no effect at all. Partly for my own amusement and partly so you can all keep thinking what you think of me in your own smug little way.

So, what the jesus fuck is it with Star Wars parody tees? Is the recession so bad that everyone has to sink that low in order to make a few bucks, or has everyone run out of ideas? Perhaps you all genuinely find them funny.

Discuss. (Irrationally)

I’ll admit I have always felt in a minority when it comes to even liking the films. I don’t, if I didn’t just make that clear, I think they are sub average b-movie sci-fi at best.

  • Simon Sherry

    Simon Sherry

    I think a large part of it is that it’s always easier to riff off of established material than come up with something new. From a purely mercenary perspective, taking a shot at the pop culture icons can be easy money – how many people google ‘star wars parody’ as opposed to the name of some artist/designer that they’ve never heard of?

    On the flip-side though, some of them are probably just brainfarts put together for shits and giggles – slapped on a tee for a laugh and nothing more.

    Buggered if I know…

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    I think so, easier to tap into a large pool fanbase that pre-exists. Makes sense. What is rubbish is it displays a desire to design purely for money, unless of course you happen to be a Star Wars obsessive personally and you made it with the same passion you’d make anything. Whether you intended to sell it or not.

    Perhaps I underestimate the fanbase.

  • Paul McClintock

    Paul McClintockZuul, the Gatekeeper

    “I think they are sub average b-movie sci-fi at best.” Well yeah, even fans would acknowledge that. I think that was the very deliberate intention of George Lucas. But I wouldn’t even call them sci-fi. More like cowboys in space.

    Anyway, I’m not culturally aware enough to make a parody shirt of any kind. I’m at least two meme generations behind the rest of the internet.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Yes, he must find it endlessly amusing that fat adults buy cheap Chinese made plastic toys of characters he drew on a napkin for absurd amounts of money and then put them on a shelf without even taking them out of the plastic.

    While some children are left with nothing to play with but their cocks.

    It’s unjust.

  • Jess Andrews
  • Danny

    Danny

    here here
    now about the donkey

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    I’m afraid the donkey has gone the way of Miss Sandra Rivett, can’t keep the same one around too long. People ask questions.

    Although not as many questions as they do when they find a dead nanny in a sack.

  • Scott Robinson

    Scott Robinson

    I don`t know much, but I do know I`m fresh out of inspiration/ideas.. so I`m reverting to drawing things I liked as a teenager.

    Stand by for wave of cock and balls T`s.

    Actually.. I`ve always liked Star Wars.. again something from my childhood that I just can`t escape. So seeing as the inspiration well is a little dry, I`m going to mix those 2 ideas together..

    Stand by for wave of Star Wars Paroddies with cocks and balls all over them.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Can you take heed from Chris White below and nick his idea and draw mad Wookie Fucker tee?

    He won’t mind I’m sure.

  • transmute

    transmute

    Wookie fuckers.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Now that, is, a tee shirt good sir.
    Excellent, excellent.

  • Danny

    Danny

    Hmph!
    This from the man who cornered the market in dry tasteless humour and total disrespect for people who just want to try.
    You my dead friend are a snob.
    (You are my friend aren’t you?)

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Not as far as I am aware.

    And yes I am, of course, it’s conceptual, for crying out loud, I don’t even exist, not really. People are so fucking stupid. Yammering at imaginaries. I suppose it must be like being religious.

    Is it like being religious?

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Hey hang on, I don’t ‘disrespect people who just want to try’ I just ‘disrespect people’.
    Including myself, my wife and children and most definitely my parents.

  • Lawford

    Lawford

    Films? I thought Star Wars was just a headline in Who Weekly.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    At least, some sense, who are you, where have you been, and do you take American Express?

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    I think I meant ‘last’ not ‘least’. But I can’t be sure.

  • Chris  Wahl

    Chris Wahl

    Lucan, for once I agree with you. As clever as some of these tshirts are, I just find them to be lazy and blatant attempts to cash in on copyrighted material under the thin veil of parody.

    You’ll never see any movie parody shirts from me. I’d feel too dirty afterwards.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    ‘for once I agree with you’, I am quite touched, not in the sort of way that will leave us both dirty though. I just rarely find anyone who agrees with me, I often don’t even agree with myself.

    Actually it’s a hard act to keep up.

    Yes anyway, it reeks of something unnatural, and it’s a shame. There was a blog recently that did a bunch of top tens and all the Star Wars ones were from redbubble. I thought that to be quite shit. They should try Zazzle, they love that sort of thing.

  • Danny

    Danny

    A really poinless, surreal and hilarious Naj comment would be good about now.

  • Danny

    Danny

    Hey hang on, I don’t ‘disrespect people who just want to try’ I just ‘disrespect people’.
    Including myself, my wife and children and most definitely my parents.

    Ahhh,,, I hit a nerve.
    Let’s see if I can help?
    How long have you wanted to sleep with your Mother and why do you think Daddy didn’t let you ride the pony?

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Daddy forced me to ride the pony. Probably part of the problem. Certainly for the pony.

    After I used up all my veins I moved onto the nerves, if you do hit one let me know, I’m gasping.

  • Scott Robinson

    Scott Robinson

    Damn.. I would if I had of read that.. Instead of just running off giggling like I did.

    But I did do this.. I can it the Trinity..
    Darth vader head, Yoda & luke testies (surprised by just how much like a testie yoda looks), and optional force lightning viens..

    I`ve outdone myself.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    This is unbelievably good.
    My rant was worth this genius alone.

    Were Danny’s balls your muse?

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Fucking buy this I would yes.

  • Danny

    Danny

    I always thought Yoda looked like my left testicle

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    I always thought your left testicle looked like Yoda.

  • nofrillsart

    nofrillsart

    More sunsets and kittens!
    btw..i do agree.

  • Scott Robinson

    Scott Robinson

    I was going to add wookie style pubic hair, but that would have pushed the boundries of good taste.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    George Lucas face raped good taste in the ‘70s. Everything’s a go now.

  • Lawford

    Lawford

    who are you, I’m a figment of my imagination.

    _ where have you been,_ On checking my passport – no where.

    and do you take American Express? I prefer Diners Card as I like to eat.

  • transmute

    transmute

    Change your name to ‘Lucas Industries’.

    ‘A left testicle I am, yes’

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Oh I wish I had thought of that before I published this.
    You’re just full of good ideas today aren’t you.

  • theyellowfury

    theyellowfury

    I love all half-decent sci-fi and beyond but I’m not obsessed and I can say that while Jar Jar Binks is a despicable cunt they did a very nice job of that last movie. I recognize is for what it is, well worth a watch. (To me anyway) Coolest fucking robot I ever saw that General Grievous.

    I would happily double the amount of Star Wars stuff on sale to get rid of the billions of photos of flowers and stupid landscapes (the mediocre ones anyway) which I feel is a much more widespread problem.
    Still, you’re wondering why are we seeing so much of it now particularly? Maybe there was a trigger in the media telling people to think about Star Wars.
    Michael Jackson looked a bit like Darth Vader, moreso with his helmet off, maybe that was it.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    I think decent designers using extreme talent to make uninspired Star Wars shirts is more of a problem than super rubbish untalented housewives taking bad photos of sunsets. They have no skill to abuse. And I think every photographer starts with a sunset, ooh they are pretty after all etc.

    It’s not something I like either, but easier to ignore, less a waste of talent so much as no talent, and they can’t think it to be a money spinner, as they don’t really sell, whereas SW parodies can’t be much else.

  • Frank Stillitano

    Frank Stillitano

    I always ask the question: How new is the idea?
    If the Star Wars parody presents us with a new way of thinking about the world, then perhaps it has social value. If not, then perhaps it is no more social benefit than a big mac in the hands of an obese child. Unfortunately I am just as guilty of sucking up to the Man as anyone, and hence a lack of true inspiration, ideas and sales is the result!

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Can you show me a Star Wars parody tee that makes me think about the world in a new wholesome way?

  • Craig 'has a nice' Dick

    Craig 'has a n...

    Totally agree with the movies being abit shoddy.

  • Paul McClintock

    Paul McClintockZuul, the Gatekeeper

    I think the ultimate goal of doing a parody is to get sued and thereby become well known. The product itself might merely be the bait to get the giant goitre of Lucas to pulsate in your direction.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Yes perhaps the ultimate goal for any fan is to be strangled to death by Beardy Lucas Fuckchest.

  • Cathie Tranent

    Cathie Tranentcommunity host

    Well the only parody shirt I ever got a C&D for was one line of Arial which read “I am the Stig”.

    Piss poor really.

    I delight in the parody, given that I have never claimed to have any talent, nor ideas of my own, I’m only here to play with the popular kids.

    Like this:

  • Chanel2

    Chanel2

    Each to their own I think.
    I enjoyed the first Star Wars, but that was back in the day, didn’t care much for the follow ups.

  • MarysBoyChild

    MarysBoyChild

    I heard you were flogging Star War Parody Tees
    here is mine

  • najeroux

    najeroux

    Upon my summoning to the journal, I had planned on making a “A really poin(t)less, surreal and hilarious Naj comment” (Danny, your spelling is still like a billy cart derby with Arnie weights and no hay to crash into). But after that assumption, I will say, I have never to this day, in my 25 years of fucking around on this fucked up piece of dirt, ever, nor will I ever, have seen a star wars film, nor do I give a shit about star wars or associated memorabilia (I’m so mad, I haven’t even capitalised “star wars” as a proper noun, because I believe it to all be shite) and as much as I love you cunts to bits and pieces, you can all go get fucked.

    Snog Snog

    najeroux

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    You just went up a notch in my appreciation notch-o-meter.
    And bearing in mind the notch-o-meter has only ever seen downward action, that is quite a feat.

  • najeroux

    najeroux

    Oooh, I just covered the entirety of the tags in one comment. Suck on that you pregnant grandmas with noodles for dresses! Your ink is nothing to my tissues of doom from Venezuela.

    najeroux

  • Ange

    Ange

    i too have never watched a single star wars film. yep, not even one.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Keep it that way.
    For the sake of Luca.

  • Danny

    Danny

    I’ve seen them all 17 times and it hasn’t even hurt me a bit.
    I can even tell the difference when people put the first 3 last and the last 3 first.
    I didn’t want to be a Wookie when I grew up.
    I am a Wookie.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    You see kids, you see what has happened to Daniel here?

    After 17 ill advised viewings of said celluloid nonsense, he is no longer able to write meaningful sentences. What does any of the above mean?
    Any of it? That’s right, nothing, it’s the insane brain dribbling of an insane brain, rotting and abused and raped by jabbas and ewoks and r2 fucking d2.

    Look on children, let this be a warning to you.

  • Danny

    Danny

    beeep, beeeep
    I’m actually quite certain I saw R2D2 used as a sex toy in a weird Northern European Porn movie once.
    And I lied, I was never a Star Wars fan (sorry Scott) I loved Tron and don’t get me started on Lord of the Rings.
    How good is Peter Jackson?

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Peter Jackson was excellent at derivative alien/zombie flicks. Braindead was an excellent rework of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead, after that it all went downhill.
    By the time he started Lord of the Fucking Bastard Shitting Idiotic Ring someone had bought him a shovel and he continued to dig.

    Don’t get me started either. 9 hours of my life I will NEVER GET BACK.

  • Danny

    Danny

    Oh and by the way, I have decided that spelling is just a state of mind. That goes for punctuation and grammar. Thanks to busted wrists , this shitting keyboard and how it’s placed on my desk I may even start writing in text.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Cnut.

  • Danny

    Danny

    It will never take away the fact that Fight Club had Brad Pitt in it.

  • Danny

    Danny

    or twelve monkeys or se7en
    Admit it, some of your favourite movies have a bona fide girly loving superstar in them.
    That must kill you, you movie snob.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    It used to, but I like Fight Club, not Fight Club the Hollywood CGI movie.
    Tyler’s purity and purpose is far more evident in the book.

    Anyway, to be quite frank and to give you a headline for tomorrow’s tabloids ‘Lucan doesn’t actually think Mr Pitt is so bad these days, shock’.

    Mind you 12 monkeys was toss, and he was rubbish in Se7en.

  • transmute

    transmute

    I though Cnut was a clothing label? Man, you’ve sold out.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Fuck me, actually I didn’t know that, alright, pretend I called him a ‘Ccok Lobster’ or some other misspelt sweary term of abuse.

  • nofrillsart
  • Lucan Industri... replied

    It’ll sell like hot jabbas.

  • MarysBoyChild

    MarysBoyChild

    Yippee

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Fook! I should never have left Australia and spoiled the rest of the world with my racist unskilled self.

  • Joseph Osborne

    Joseph Osborne

    Sunsets are ok in my opinion, same for flowers, cashing in on shite initial ideas is irritating, but really fractals piss me off more. Oh, and crap that people use MS paint to make or edit.

  • Sandra Rivett

    Sandra Rivett

    “I’m afraid the donkey has gone the way of Miss Sandra Rivett, can’t keep the same one around too long. People ask questions.
    Although not as many questions as they do when they find a dead nanny in a sack.”

    Mr Lucan, I think it has been discussed in previous forums that you are an utter bastard and should you ever wish to refer to me as disposable as a donkey or try place my person in a sack again, I will have you tied up and forced to view the movies under discussion here, until your eyeballs bleed. You forget that whilst the police can’t find you, I’m dead and therefore omnipresent. Dead Nannies in sacks can present a rather terrible little pickle when their corpses reanimate and walk the earth. Tsk Tsk. I have nothing further to contribute to the matter.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    I still have some of your heart.
    It wouldn’t wash out of my suit.
    Very fucking frustrating.

  • Lucan's Biographer

    Lucan's Biogra...

    The authorised biography of R.J Bingham 7th Earl of Lucan Part Two

    Lucan having a had a taste for gambling that developed into an addiction took to the night clubs and fell foul of the gangster types that were dominating Britain at the time such as the Cray brothers. 1
    His gambling debt and the discovery that his wife was as crazy as his colleagues in the House led Lucan to revaluated his life. 2
    Strikingly handsome in a way most men weren’t in 60s Britain, Lucan took a turn down a path that would change his life forever.
    Sandra Rivett, the Lucan’s children’s nanny was the instigator of this and introduced Lucan into the dark arts and witchcraft that were also extremely popular in England at the time. 3
    She had convinced Lucan to conspire with her to kill his wife and claim her life insurance policy. 4
    Their biggest mistake was to make it look like the already certifiable Lady Lucan had beat herself to death by repeatedly bludgeoning her own skull.
    Things took a more dramatic turn when Sandra Rivett arrived in her street clothes rather than her nanny uniform for the couples escape. Lucan mistaking the nanny for his wife beat her across the head, realising his mistake but seeing the blood Lucan fell into a blood lust frenzy that took over his very soul and he continued until the Rivett was unrecognisable. Lucan’s wife then came in saw the remains of Rivett and ran out of the house screaming to the Police via the local pub. 5
    Lucan fled the scene and was never seen by the general public again.
    But what happened next?

    1. Guess which one of us enjoyed prison more? – Reggie Cray (blowjob Press 1980)
    2. Sheer speculation (Sun any day of the week 2009)
    3. I was a English warlock HRH Prince Charles( Palace Press 1985)
    4. Local records (;look it up yourself if you don’t believe me)
    5. I am the Barkeep and other tales Various (bullshit books 1200)

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Cray Brothers?
    Do you mean Kray?

    You’re fired.

  • Frank Stillitano

    Frank Stillitano

    Can you show me a Star Wars parody tee that makes me think about the world in a new wholesome way?

    No. My point exactly.

  • Frank Stillitano

    Frank Stillitano

    As for Sci-Fi, the génre began and ended with 2001 A space odyssey: what else can be found in space beyond infinity?

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Oh now there’s a statement I 100% agree with.

  • Gregoryno6

    Gregoryno6

    Still waiting to see the T shirt that has Yoda slammin’ it to Jar Jar Binks…

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    I’m not waiting for that at all.

  • theyellowfury

    theyellowfury

    I see, can you show me an example of what you’re talking about?

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    What?
    I have no idea what I am talking about, that’s hardly the point. When?

  • theyellowfury

    theyellowfury

    Doing that again eh?

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Now you have really got me.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Do you mean an example of a parody shirt?

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    OH, you mean to my reply to your comment way up there don’t you?
    Sorry, I had no idea we had spoken before, I just sort of reply to words.

    So you need an example of a sunset by an amateur or something?

  • theyellowfury

    theyellowfury

    Show me the worst infraction you’ve seen of the star wars thing

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    They are all bad.
    But this has nothing to do with the skill of the parody, or the skill of the artist, it’s about a sudden and overwhelming influx of said matter, all of which reeks of a cash in desire.

  • mister khan

    mister khan

    writing is not getting any better because a; i’m not doing any, and b; they haven’t added another letter to the alphabet for years.

    personally i much prefered flash gordon to starwars as a child.

  • mister khan

    mister khan

    but unfortunately, flash gordon is so good, it’s simply not possible to parody.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Someone did though eh, and there was way more nudity.

  • Cathie Tranent

    Cathie Tranentcommunity host

    Flesh Gordon … oh shit – how did I know that????

  • theyellowfury

    theyellowfury

    Its not all bad, and it does so not all reek of a cash-in desire. I don’t know anybody who’s on RB for the money.
    This frexample is cool.

    It is to me and as a man and outsider sometime star wars fan I reckon my opinion’s as good as any. Surely someone who’s against star wars will always dislike anything to do with it.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    I’m not ‘against’ Star Wars, I happen to not like the films, but I did mention that as a caveat, however this was still a focus on the sudden rise in their popularity and the suspicions that that draws.

    Also it’s fair to say that money drives most things. I don’t personally hawk after cash, however I have bills to pay, mouths to feed and gin to buy, so I attempt to design things that I think will sell, however I also place them firmly around beliefs and attempting something new.

    But this is no attack at specific designs or artists, it’s a broad sweep that suddenly RB seems to be the place to go for Star Wars tees, or (as Chris says below) other cliched parodies. I don’t remember it being like that here. Scroll through recent, or popular all time. It’s endless, in fact there used to be loads of Joker ones but they all disappeared. No idea where.

    I suppose this is no different to the journal about the Jacko tees after his death really. What is the true motive?

    It’s probably impossible to ever know. But it’s fun talking about it eh.

  • Chris  Wahl

    Chris Wahl

    ‘Surely someone who’s against star wars will always dislike anything to do with it.’

    I’m fond of Star Wars, but don’t like the parody shirts. Two separate things really. And my disdain isn’t restricted to just the Star Wars shirts. The Joker ‘Want to see a magic trick’ pencil shirts, the endless Obama ‘Change’ mutations. If it isn’t being done for financial gain or popularity, what’s their intention?

  • theyellowfury

    theyellowfury

    It is fun,
    I’d still love to know what caused it. Maybe we should tell LucasArts, little George wouldn’t be long putting a stop to it.

  • Danny

    Danny

    I’m just happy Scott’s penis made a return (that doesn’t sound right?)

  • Scott Robinson

    Scott Robinson

    Apparently..A pink Darth Vader is against the terms and conditions of Photobucket.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Oh, really?
    Aha, that is quite amusing.

  • Lucan Industri... replied

    Oh so where is it now?
    Bring it back here please…

  • Lawford

    Lawford

    Did Scott’s penis make a return or a U turn?

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