And so the memoirs of a monster come to a dramatic close.

Over the past months, Matthew F. D. Hemming has brought us endless amusement through his fascinating interpretation of Darth Vader's twisted mind. Hemming's blog, The Darth Side, "was an online journal detailing the imagined day to day life of Darth Vader."

It's Darth Vader's blog, his diary if you will. His first entry begins like this:

It is a period of civil war. Guerrilla spaceships striking from a hidden base have won a narrow victory against our loyal Imperial forces, inflicting heavy losses in terms of casualties and, worse, the galactic peace. During the battle insurgent spies managed to steal secret plans to our ultimate weapon and the brainchild of Tarkin's dream, the DEATH STAR, an armoured space station with enough firepower to destroy an entire planet.

The whole thing has given me a massive headache.

On the 18th - just before ROTS was released - it all came to a close. Darth Vader's last written words before fighting Luke above Endor? "I go now to meet my destiny."

Since then, Hemming's creation has been Slashdotted, and has attracted thousands upon thousands of regular readers and a good bit of media attention, too. Not entirely serious, it is "best enjoyed if read with James Earl Jones' inimitable delivery in mind," says Hemming. "If you put just about anything mundune in that voice, it's already halfway funny."

If you haven't checked it out, you need to:

http://mfdh.ca/starwars/darth-vader/