"Darth" is a pseudonymous Twitter user with a terrific sense of humor, a loyal and highly interactive following, and a special gift for fast, funny, topical, reference-heavy, and often bespoke Photoshop work.
Here are five of @darth's photos just from the last week.
Reactions to John Lewis at the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom:
*poster* RT @MikeIntaglietta: CC @darth RT @HayesBrown: John Lewis: National Treasure. http://t.co/ZTg86i2iEE
— darth NSA Red Panda™ (@darth) August 28, 2013
When the hashtag "#NSAromcom" started floating around, @darth made many many posters to match Twitter users' proposed titles:
*poster* RT @ryanbeckwith: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Data Mining #NSAromcom pic.twitter.com/CQccHpqchz
— darth NSA Red Panda™ (@darth) August 24, 2013
This poster, featuring a relatively rare appearance by @darth him/her/itself, was just a response to Reuters' Margarita Noriega tweeting that summer was ending:
@margafret wait is that sci-fi pic.twitter.com/Uf2kZlC17V
— darth NSA Red Panda™ (@darth) August 25, 2013
I don't even know what happened here, but it's beautiful and funny for reasons I can't explain or understand:
"wait...what just happened.." RT @LisaMcIntire: CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING CALLED "A GREAT MORAL FORCE" BY JOAN DIDION??? http://t.co/8EnPip9sHa
— darth NSA Red Panda™ (@darth) August 23, 2013
But this one is pretty easy for just about anyone to get:
@burritojustice @NortonI @stevesilberman @mat pic.twitter.com/OWM5gpoxpm
— darth NSA Red Panda™ (@darth) August 25, 2013
Update: I challenged @darth to make a poster for the movie "The World According to @Darth," using The World According to Garp as a reference. In less than thirty minutes, the poster was born, complete with tiny, perfect textual details that you have to see at full size to fully appreciate.
ok tim RT @tcarmody: I wish @darth would make a poster for "The World According to @Darth" http://t.co/KhKiPbwxbg pic.twitter.com/MPlMEXsua3
— steak and dartatoes™ (@darth) August 30, 2013