1 Imperial Officer: Lord Vader, the rebels have fled the ice world of Hoth. After going to the swamp planet of Dagobah, Skywalker has rejoined... 2 Imperial Officer: ... his friends on the desert world of Tatooine. And now the rebel fleet is massing for an attack on the forest moon of Endor. 3 Vader: I sense a great disturbance in the Force. 3 Imperial Officer: My lord? 4 Vader: How else can so many worlds be totally covered with only one terrain type without regard to latitudinal variations?

2012-02-08 Rerun commentary: If TV Tropes had existed when I wrote this comic, I almost certainly would have linked to this page. Now I can rectify that temporally mandated omission!

And in a strange piece of stable-time-loopery, this comic provides the introduction quote to that TV Tropes page. Now that would have been quite a feat if I'd managed it at the original publication of this strip.