#1187; It was A Long Time Ago

Comic Transcripts

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

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In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one, except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.