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Luke Skywalker Still Loving His Blue Milk in Star Wars Comics

Luke Skywalker likes his milk. This is almost canon, as Aunt Beru gave him blue Bantha milk in the first Star Wars movie (albeit it in a deleted scene), and it has turned up in a few places since.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ysHxlpywUY

But in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, he preferred to milk his own. And drink it with more of a greener. And fandom flipped, rather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC4A7y7ONoI

But in yesterday's Star Wars #45 from Marvel Comics, it was all he could think about, visiting a bar with Chewbacca and Han Solo. In Star Wars #44, the issue concluded with Han making this joke.

Luke Skywalker Still Loving His Blue Milk in Star Wars Comics

Which Luke seemed to take to heart in yesterday's new comic, part of the new Star Wars canon, and set after the first movie.

Luke Skywalker Still Loving His Blue Milk in Star Wars Comics

Get the man a milk, Han…

Luke Skywalker Still Loving His Blue Milk in Star Wars Comics

And yes, this is starting to be an obsession for the boy. It's like he's in a Japanese anime bath house, the amount he suddenly seems to be getting through. But milk drinking is a trope synonym for innocence, youth, and androgyny.

Luke Skywalker Still Loving His Blue Milk in Star Wars Comics

Even when drinking a toast to fallen comrades. And yes, the milk is blue. And you know what? It runs in the family…

Luke Skywalker Still Loving His Blue Milk in Star Wars Comics

In his newsletter yesterday, Star Wars comic writer Kieron Gillen addresses the Thala-Siren in the room. "I wrote all the milk jokes before I'd saw The Last Jedi, btw. You can imagine my face."

Is it this face, Kieron? Is it?

Luke Skywalker Still Loving His Blue Milk in Star Wars Comics

STAR WARS #45
(W) Kieron Gillen (A) Salvador Larroca (CA) David Marquez
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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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