The gags fall into two broad, sometimes overlapping, categories. Vader is lovingly drawn by Brown wearing his usual menacing visage, but this only enhances the character’s awkwardness when dealing with domestic situations. With their button eyes and broad grins, Luke and Leia make for especially sweet-looking tykes. Brown’s simple colors, thick hatching, and the pared-down characters make him rather suitable as a children’s book illustrator. Brown’s rough hand-drawn style is at its most detailed here when recreating its fictional backdrops. Each book contains a collection of mostly single-panel gag strips with no overarching narrative connecting them. Both are initially portrayed as very young, though they later age into teenagers. That might place these two books as among his cutest and geekiest efforts to date.ĭarth Vader and Son concentrates on Vader’s relationship with Luke while Vader’s Little Princess turns its attention on Leia. His awkward, often befuddled Vader is an avatar for Brown himself, except he’s raising a pair of superpowered kids within the house that George Lucas built. This apparently stems from Brown becoming a father in real life. Had young Anakin been a more attentive father, would he have turned out a better person than in the movies? Probably not, but he might have learned to play a decent game of catch.īrown has made his fair share of pop culture parodies, but this pair hews closer to the more heartfelt expressiveness of his autobiographical comics. But later on, the two are seen playing a game of catch in which Buzz excitedly proclaims “Oh, you're a great dad!” Jeffrey Brown milks that joke for all its worth in a pair of books Darth Vader and Son and its sequel Vader’s Little Princess.
One recent example that comes to mind is when Evil Emperor Zurg pulls off the reveal on Buzz Lightyear in the movie Toy Story 2, resulting in the same pained reaction. “ I am your father” has become a ubiquitous meme since Darth Vader had his little talk with Luke Skywalker back in 1980 in what is now one of the most parodied scenes in pop culture.
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