Read this comic and tell me if you agree. I sure do. Right on, Gabe.

Disclaimer: The following rant is of the cheeky and sarcastic variety, not the angry or serious variety. No one needs to think I have my mynocks in a sarlacc over this.

Seriously, has anyone else found it annoying? They do it all the time in Star Wars books. Take a common Earth idiom and crowbar Star Wars words into it.

Normal word replacements I can tolerate. I'll just check the time on my chrono will drinking a cup of caf, then I'll text message my friend on my comlink. Sure. Very clever. Lightsabers are just space-swords, so why not have space-coffee? Well done, collective EU creators.

And to be fair, creatively invented Star Wars idioms aren't completely unheard of.

But I don't need to hear obvious, flimsy translations like "Knee high to a Jawa."

The movies did just fine. What's that Captain Panaka? Ducks that are sitting are considered to be helpless in your galaxy, too? But that's absurd! I thought you were supposed to be in SPACE!?

Ducks were fine! You maybe notice the line, then move on with the movie. But only one movie later, Obi-Wan delivers this fantastic little number: (wait for it) "Wild bantha chase!" *groan*

Good thinking, George, I'm sure no one will notice that obvious shoehorning of Star Wars wildlife into an Earth phrase. It does make sense after all. Banthas are widely known for their speed and excitable nature, and their tendency to run away from pursuers. They surely are difficult to catch, leading to chaotic and often futile misadventures when pursuing them. And why wouldn't idioms about mundane Outer Rim wildlife be ubiquitous even as far as Coruscant? Surely Jedi Masters use obscure local phrases from the galaxy's most desolate planets all the time!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to clean my keyboard, because that last paragraph dripped sarcasm all over it.