The third Star Wars title was announced at Comic-Con (AAAAHHH!): Revenge of the Sith. Yep, and the movie comes out May 2005, the month after Firefly. Next year is going to be big for SF movie fans.

A fan quoted in the article expressed satisfaction with the title, noting the similarity of the title and logo to “Return of the Jedi,” the concluding film in the original trilogy. From what I recall, that film was originally titled “Revenge of the Jedi,” but Lucas toned it down, since he was then in the throes of being a namby-pamby parental wimp, who wished to make a movie his young children could watch without having to explain to them the concept of revenge.

They’re grown now… hope he doesn’t cut back on the good stuff just so his grandkids won’t question why the good guy turns bad after getting horribly, horribly mutilated.

And as for the stormtrooper in the photo, I can just imagine him saying:

“I conquer the galaxy for the Emperor and all I get is this lousy T-shirt? Bite my shiny plastic ass!”