Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

I'm normally into continuity, and the only times I really enjoy breaking continuity is when it's done knowingly, purposefully, and in a skilled manner.   This series of books breaks continuity - Vader knows about his family, and the Rebels are up and about while Luke and Leia are kids - and is probably one of the worst offenders I've ever seen.   However, it does so for the purpose of satire, and it's also so well done and so adorable, I can't help but love these books.  

Of course, I gave them a try because I knew the illustrator from Incredible Change-Bots, the send-off of Transformers that is just brilliant and funny, too.   I haven't read his autobiographical comics, because I'm way, way more into fiction than non-fiction, but I've loved everything I've read by him.   Change-Bots, and Star-Wars, really, but they make my geeky-heart go pitter-patter. 

It's mostly about Darth Vader trying to be a good father.   Which would be laughably bad fan fiction, except that Brown has pretty keen insights on kids, and how kids behave.   It's somehow so ridiculous seeing Vader as a parent, and the kids being kids, that all I can do is chuckle in the end. 

Leia throws Luke under the bus here.   I love her little smirk.  And this is just another part of the brilliance: Brown has this simple, elegant style that is efficient.   That line for the mouth can express anything with a single stroke, and does in this case.   Also, I laughed out loud when I saw this panel. 

But I laughed even harder when I saw this: 

Look, I'm not going to lie.   It's a fairly short book, and it takes maybe fifteen minutes to read.   But it also made me laugh out loud more than books five or six times this length, books that were supposed to be funny as well.   I was tempted to use more examples, but given the length, I didn't.   

It's also still only two dollars as a Kindle book at the moment, which is one of the reasons I picked this up in the first place.  I almost returned it because it wouldn't load on my Kindle app for the laptop (which says it needs an update, but there's no update in the apps section) and there's nothing else I wanted to read it on.   The phone is both too small and can trigger my migraines, and the Paperwhite doesn't have color.  I realized I could read it through the cloud reader, which is what I did in the end.   I'm glad I did, because it was well worth keeping.  It'll cheer me up when I need it later on, I'm sure.   

Now the only thing that could be better would be Incredible Change-Bots 3.