An Ode to Summoning Bigger Fish
I’ve mentioned my love of Darths & Droids — the webcomic that reimagines the prequels as an elaborate but odd table-top roleplaying game — before. But you don’t need to have read the comic to enjoy the song “Summon Bigger Fish,” based on the spell cast by Qui-Gon when they were attacked by a merely big fish in Naboo’s underwater caves. Here’s a sample of the lyrics:
To make the Gungans food to eat,
Summon bigger fish!
To save you from the laundry fleet,
Summon bigger fish!
To send your foes into retreat,
Without this spell you’re incomplete:
Summon bigger fish…
Summon bigger, summon bigger fish!
If you’ve even Summoned Anything Bigger Than Something Else, this song is for you.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.