Beaver, PA (AP) - Lords of light! Thousands of voters were stunned in November when Ookla the Mok, longtime companion of Thundarr the Barbarian, won a landslide victory to claim the seat of Beaver County Judge over longstanding incumbent J. Robert Colavincenzo. The feat seemed all the more outstanding considering Ookla’s difficult and somewhat painful origins.

A hideous mutant created by a massive natural disaster when the Earth was destroyed by an interplanetary collision in 1994, Ookla has been plagued by lifelong comparisons to another famous foul-tempered and speech-impaired creature, Chewbacca the Wookie.

“It really has been a difficult transition for him,” states Campaign Manager Ariel the Sorceress. “Getting your message across with sub-humanoid vocal cords has been a real challenge.”

Running on a campaign message of “Arrrrrghhha Grrrrowwlll Gaaaa!”, the feisty Mok demonstrated his tough approach on crime by pulling the arms from the sockets of a local purse-snatcher, thus sealing his eleventh-hour victory.