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Franchise Thinking Transcript

This is a transcript of the December 11, 2024, RGBots comic.

Panel One

Green leans forward, talking about the latest episode of a hot new show.

Green: Did you see the new episode of Priests of Starros last night?

Red: No, I haven’t even heard of that.

Green: For real?!

Panel Two

Green is shocked!

Green: Surely you’ve at least seen Dominion: Empire of the Stars before?

Red (off-screen): Doesn’t ring a bell.

Green: The trilogy was one of the biggest hits of the 1990s.

Red (off-screen): Maybe I’ll check it out.

Panel Three

Green can’t believe how much Red has to catch up on. It requires deep concentration.

Green: Well, you can’t watch Priests of Starros first, it is technically a prequel but sets up key points in the third film of the trilogy, and you want those revelations to come naturally.

Red: Alright, well… I’ll start with-

Panel Four

Red is obscured by all of the dialogue from Green.

Green (off-screen): Oh, but don’t watch the trilogy in release order. Instead, you should download the fan edit that combines the three films into a four-hour film.

Red: Okay.

Green (off-screen): It cuts out the Princess Laser subplot, but it turns out there is a really good fanfic that repurposes that narrative in a way that better aligns with the canon written in K.R.R. Keeper’s original notes, compiled by his son, Trapper. Also, the manga spinoff does a lot of really interesting stuff…

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