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The Last X-Vector Fighter [Super-Fun-Pak Comix] (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Super-Fun-Pak Comix by Ruben Bolling for November 11, 2024 | GoComics.com

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[+] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Oh really? I’ve always heard about that movie but never seen it or looked up the plot.

It is also similar to Ender’s Game, in a way.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Also mostly the plot of Ernest Cline's Armada, with a megaton of unsufferable 'tude and pointless 80's references sprinkled on it. Those references include "the last Starfighter", of course. It's terrible.

The podcast "372 pages we'll never get back" with Mike and Connor from MST3K/rifftrax did its second season on it. Kind of a book club with books they assume they're going to hate (mostly). First season was Ready Player One, from Cline too, so they chose this one next because they were astonished that Armada could be considered the bad one compared to RP1.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Still enjoyable to watch. I mean you can't judge it by today's standards but it is fun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Indeed! I fell in love with that move back in the day. Luckily, Alex at least got to directly pilot the Starfighter -- but our alien freedom-fighters in the comic strip are sadly only looking for remote controlled drone pilots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It was also the opening of Stargate Universe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Loved that movie as a kid! I have an anniversary edition DVD of it somewhere, because my VHS copy broke in the mid 90's from rewinding too much

[–] FreshLight 2 points 3 months ago

Also FutureMan

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

As long as we're throwing out media with similar plots

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The story of one of my favourite books growing up, only you can save mankind

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Isnt that also the plot of Ender's Game?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This is what I first thought of lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but the gov't was in on it. Here, it's literally just some alien dudes fishing for easy brainwashable recruits. Sort of like the Three Body Problem, but more realistic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The book or this post?