For anyone who isn't aware, Steven Spielberg digitally edited the 20th Anniversary Special Edition of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. One of the changes made was to remove all of the guns from the police officers near the end of the film, and replace them with walkie-talkies. This change has been looked upon unfavourably by some fans.

I originally wrote this strip as follows:

As you can see, I finished it in this format. Then when I was looking at it, I realised that the entire last panel was redundant. I didn't need to explain what was happening with the final caption, because anyone who would appreciate the joke would already know about Spielberg's edit. I didn't need to show a stormtrooper in the scene; that was a bad idea really, since stormtroopers don't show up in the movie until after Han has gone, and wouldn't be likely to play police in a dispute between Han and Greedo anyway. And the stormtrooper's line is just silly, written as an evocation of the stereotypical British bobby; all it does is serve to dilute the main joke with a bit of extra, unrelated silliness. Finally, it's better not to show what happens next, after Han and Greedo make their desperate quickdraws of their walkie-talkies, but to leave it up to the readers' imaginations.

So the last panel had to go. And I had to start making the entire strip over from scratch. I couldn't even reuse the scaled images, because they were scaled too small for the new version. But the good part is that I had an entire rubbish version of the strip that I could use to base an annotation on. :-)

I'm also pleased that I managed to keep a widescreen aspect ratio.