Two people, ARON and BEREN, are talking about Star Wars.
ARON: Way I figure it, the ORIGINAL trilogy "really happened." Maybe sensationalized by the media somewhat, but basically an account of actual events.
A: The PREQUEL trilogy is an entertainment product FROM that universe, bearing as much relation to the actual rise and fall of Vader and the Empire as does DISNEY'S POCAHONTAS to the events IT attempts to portray.
A: A WAGNERIAN MELODRAMA airing constantly on daytime cable on the Outer Rim worlds.
B: This explains the soap-opera lighting.
B: And what about the new movie? Where does EPISODE SEVEN fit into this cosmology?
A: Episode Seven is Braveheart. Titanic. Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor.
A: Episode Seven is a piece of in-universe media made by people who were born AFTER the fall of the Empire. It was intended to be a historical movie ABOUT the Rebellion, but SO MANY dramatic liberties were taken that they can't QUITE label it a TRUE STORY.
B: Ah! The famous "Inspired by actual events."
A: Right! Like, name a story that WASN'T, dude
Han and Chewie played themselves in THE FORCE AWAKENS like Jerry Lawler played himself in MAN ON THE MOON
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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