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You're listening to Star Wars splash page, episode number three hundred and fifty seven,
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and it's me just Matt. Jeff
can't be here tonight, and frankly
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that's his loss. But hey,
he's a lot a week off, aren't
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you. I know, I am, so why not him? You'll allow
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it, but we still miss your
Jeff. Me. Oh no, stay,
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it's been made. I'm gonna be
as before looks hard, gon I
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don't want to. It's running the
Galasnee because this computer rock Star Wars,
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and here's hoping that the you know, we are going to be back celebrating
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her one hundredth issue as well.
So and this one is quite a bang,
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quite a bang. A lot of
people are going to be very,
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very very over the moon with this
issue for some obvious reasons. It's a
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Dark Droids tie in, which,
of course is no surprise. It's everything
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when it comes to monthly Star Wars
comics except for the upcoming mini series and
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the High Republic are going to be
related to the Dark Droids massive crossover event.
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But first, the news, well, the big news is last week
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it was revealed that coming in November, there will be another Star Wars Visions
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one shot being written and illustrated by
Peach Momoco, who is one of the
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great, great, great contemporary artists
working in the medium today. But in
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the announcement that was on star Wars
dot com, it also said that this
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is the first of a series of
one shots that feature stories that will be
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untethered to, you know, the
Star Wars storytelling. So to my mind,
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it's almost like we're getting a new
run of Star Wars tales that Dark
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Horse Comics ran back in the nineties
in the in the early two thousands of
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Memory Serves, and those are always
some of my most favorite stories because I
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mean, you were just allowed,
you know, the sky was the limit
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you could export individual character. You
know, it didn't matter if it was
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canon or not, obviously, and
so there was just so much storytelling potential
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that you can definitely check out the
link of the show notes to this announcement.
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It's due to arrive November fifteen,
and it is going to be part
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of the solicits for November that are
going to be coming out this week.
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The manchould be coming out today on
Star Wars dot Com, or if not,
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then Thursday, when Marvel releases its
solicits. Of course, we'll have
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those on Twitter in the base fook
page as well, So get very excited
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about that. It's going to be
a whole lot of fun. As a
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matter of Factmoko told star wars dot
Com that she quote, I really enjoy
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thinking about how to tell my own
version of Star Wars while keeping in mind
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the concepts of the original universe.
So this initial story picks up centuries after
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the death of a major Sith Lord, with a cult called Ncock having grown
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around the notorious Dark Side servant Tata. The leader of the cult, believe
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she is the rightful successor to the
Sith Lord. Meanwhile, a girl named
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Keko at her loyal loyal droid gel
are faded to confront this new evil.
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So really really looking forward thisss and
it's gonna be a whole lot of fun,
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a whole lot of fun. And
other news. Of course, the
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Mandalorian Season two mini series is continuing
along. It will be eight issues,
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but we are starting to see another
raft of retailer exclusive variant covers. A
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matter of fact, on on this
past week, uh kale in kale Gou
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had a great one for issue number
five, featuring Asokatano, and then of
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course Trinity Comics is going to do
a black and white version uh for Doctor
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Afro number thirty six. It's it's
a it's the black and white version of
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the Clone Wars fifteenth Anniversary variant by
IM just so that'll be very much worth
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checking out as well as uh,
you know, more covers coming from UH
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from UH from Unknown Comics as well, including one by Peach Momoco. Last,
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but not least, Charles soul is
uh uh prepping readers of the upcoming
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Shadows of Starlight mini series on Twitter. He said he had just had a
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letter's pass on the first issue and
is just really really says there's a whole
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lot to digest from this mini series. Uh. You know, it's set,
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it's four issues, and it's covering
the missing year after the fall of
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Starlight Beacon, and there's little beats
and big picture reveals for Phase three and
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there's even a certain Jedi who pops
up that he showed Ibraean Robertson's artwork,
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and I think if you're a THHR
fan, you're going to really really really
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enjoy this one. So that's pretty
much it for the news. We will
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dive right in to Doctor Afra number
thirty five. Again, this is a
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Dark Droids tie in, so we
have the appropriate dress, if you will.
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On the cover of the issue.
First it comes for the metal and
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then it comes for her. This
of course is written by Alissa Wong,
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the art is by Minky Young,
colors are by Rachelle Rosenberg. Letters are
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by Virtual Calogrophies Joe Karamania. The
cover artist is Young Yung yun, and
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there are of course variants, including
a Salvador La Roca and Nolan Wordard homage
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to the Star Wars number one that
certainly when it was first revealed, caused
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a lot of us and oz and
having seen it in person, I can
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tell you they were all justified.
There's also a Jet Return of the Jedi
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fortieth anniversary variant by Chris Sprouse,
Carl Story and ni Ajmanon, and then
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there is a Clone Wars fifteenth anniversary
variant by Jesseppa, Kamcoley and Haysy.
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Supertoff book designer is Carlos Lao.
Michael J. Basso is our assistant editor,
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Danny Kasim is our editor, Mark
Benezia is our senior editor, and
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CB Sabolsky is our editor in chief
from Lucasfilm. We've got senior editor Robert
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Simpson, Creative director Michael Siglin,
Art director is Troy Alders. From the
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story group, it's Matt Martin,
Pablo Hidalgo, and Emichkokani. And our
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creative art manager is Phil Shostat.
Now again, this story is called Mad
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Methods, and we open up the
book and it's all about the Taga family.
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Domino Taga is the head of the
Taga Corporation and we're the largest companies
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in the galaxy, which has had
a hand and everything from food distribution to
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mining and even weapons development and droid
production. But something is going wrong with
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droids throughout the galaxy. First it
comes for the metal, then it comes
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for everything else. And we open
up and we are in Utah Town.
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A nar shut up and there is
a deal going down. I told you
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each show you owe me ten credits
uchuh money first and then you can touch.
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And of course we had a Rodian
saying I need to inspect the item.
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You won't see a single credit.
If this is counterfeit, oh trust
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me, it's real. And of
course all this is translated from the hauties
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and they crack it open and we
see a reflection of the rodian from what
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is clearly a droid is some kind. We lifted these from an old Tager
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Corporation warehouse on mil Vane, never
used, never sold, and now all
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yours if you can pay you want
how much for an old stolen droid?
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I know you're for it, so
it don't even tried it, And all
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of a sudden, the droid's eyes
turn on and their purple, and it
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pops out and it looks like an
old separatist battle droid in a set.
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It's like almost like a droid aga, but it's a clearly somewhat different,
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but the style is a little a
little similar. Joom joom, joom koom.
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What the hell that thinks power cells
should be inactive? By got a
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hell? Ten man m And the
droid is knocked out, but the droid
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has done its job. And that's
where we cut two. The acquisitor Tager
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Company's flagship Domino Tagger with Lappin Tiger, and they've got the droid in pieces
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on the table. It's almost like
it's a droid autopsy. And Lappin says,
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I've never seen this model of droid
before, Lady Domino. It looks
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similar to a clone War Arab battle
droid, but there aren't records of Tager
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Corporation manufacturing these. That's because we
didn't. You're too young to remember this,
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Labin. But the former heads of
the company, my parents, Sonia
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and Killigan, were separatists. They
made a bid for the battle droid contract
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but failed to secure it. This
was my very first design, and the
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way Domina is holding it, you
can it's it's obvious that she relishes the
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work that she put into it.
And we get a flashback house of Taga
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recreational Estate many years ago, and
we see a young Domino Tager at the
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drawing board as it were, although
it's young, it's much more of a
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digital board. And she's, you
know, a Dominant surrounded by her siblings,
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Old Rick Taga, Silas Tiger or
Muntaga Domino. Domino Domina, What
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are you drawing? Some kind of
ug little droid? Those like joints would
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never work with a spine. Shut
up, Silas, you're just jealous at
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our baby sister's a genius. She's
not a genius. I'm the genius.
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Welcome to you so thick headed?
Then, huh, they don't stop annoying
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me. I'll put my pen through
their eyes. A Dominus as to ulrich
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boys. The parents walk in.
That's of course, Killion and Sonya Taga,
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heads of Tiger Company. This behavior
hardly befits the future of Tager Corporation.
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Sorry, now walk us through this
battle droid, design Domino and keep
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cost in mass manufacturing in mind.
Yes, mother, father, this element
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is And we cut back to the
acquisitor now, and there's doctor Afra walking
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in on Lady Domina and lappin.
Oh, look at this. Who robbed
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the Clone wars and dumped its pieces
on a lab table? That's a good
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question, doctor Afra. In this
case, it was pirates. They broke
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into an old company warehouse and stole
the prototype Tagga battle droid. Something went
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awry on Narshada. The pirates and
their prospective buyer were all killed, apparently
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by this droid. But look at
this, Domina reaches in, and Afra
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clearly, astutely observes the power cells
are missing. Correct, We've removed them
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for storage. So you're telling me
that somehow this droid killed a bunch of
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people without a power source that shouldn't
be possible exactly, and that's why I
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need you to investigate how it happened. We've secured the first warehouse, but
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there's a second on novel Prime.
I want you to see if that batch
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of droids is having similar issues.
Sorry, wait, are you asking me
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to walk into a warehouse of faulty
killer droids to check out there murderous by
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flaw or murderous by design? Yes? No, no way, I don't
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know how crazy you think I am. You'll be getting danger paid. I'm
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in some great lettering here, so
as after turns round, of course you
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are now come with me, says
Lady Domino. Now there are some other
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matters I'd like to discuss with you, doctor Afra, a mutual arrangement that
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you may be interested in. Wait, this isn't the way to your office.
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No, it's not leave us that
the yes, Lady Domina, Well,
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then, Afra, and clearly we
have walked into Lady Domina's bed chamber.
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And what a bedchamber it is?
To which, after replies, far
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be it for me to keep a
lady waiting? Some ground rules before we
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start. Rules one more to improvisation, and of course At this point,
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Afre is starting to undress. Domino
Tagger. I don't leave anything to chance.
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Afra defined terms, hard boundaries.
If we're going to move forward,
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I need your agreement. Oh I
agree, danger and authority or two of
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my favorite things. Maybe we can
continue agreeing over there. Mis Afra nods
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her head toward the bed. Optimization
is everything, replies Domina. Ooof,
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and she pushes Afra onto the bed. Although iteration is an important part of
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the process, and that's where Lady
Domina delivers, as Watts would say,
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a kiss that kills upon the lips
of doctor Afro, which replies, I
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boom. Can work with that until
the next morning. Of course, Lady
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Domina is up and working and after
stairs, Domina, you're up already.
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My first meeting was three hours ago. I've just secured the rights to Keptic
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and its moons. Listen, Domino
about last night. I believe I made
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the nature of our arrangement very clear. If you want romance or a relationship,
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seek it elsewhere. You have your
assignment dismissed. And this page is
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almost worth it just for the look
on after space, because it's usually Afro
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who's doing the dismissing, not being
the dismissed, so sort of the tables
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have turned on her. So she
stormed, well, I don't say she
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storms up, but she strides out
with purpose. And there's just Lucky,
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Hey, Doc, I don't want
to hear it. Lucky. Sleeping with
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a tagger is always a bad idea. Sleeping with your boss even worse,
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speaking from experience, after replies,
just trying to watch out for you talk,
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don't it's nothing. Domino is not
looking for anything, and neither am
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I. And you know they're approaching
the Archangel four, right, I'm guessing
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you still haven't heard from Sanna then, which is a nice, nice little
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way to sort of stick the knife
into the back and twist it just a
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smidge there. You always call me
when you're right out of allies or people
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to blackmail. I've got a fun
new game. Let's see how long you
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can go without saying anything until they
reach Havel Prime, and after just you
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know, rockets out of the out
of the Acquisitor and aboard the Archangel four
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and they fly to Zoul's house.
Galator three. This is not Hovel Prime,
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No, it's better. Welcome to
Zoul's House. The best nightclub on
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Galator three. The prettiest girls or
boys, if you're into that. The
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prettiest people really come here to party
on their daddy's credits. You can get
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anything you want here, no limits. Everyone's a mark and they love it.
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And there's some great color work here
inside the club because they're you know,
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shades of lavender and purple and just
you know, blends really nicely.
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So you get the really energetic vibe
of this of this nightclub, you know,
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as people are dancing to and Fro, Hey you you're just my friend's
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tight get into dance? Yeah,
sorry, So it's just Lucky, I'm
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off the market. What was that
doc? You know? Ariel and I
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are serious. Now what did you
get so uptight? Shut the hell up
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and let's have some fun. These
things never last anyway. You might as
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well start the rebound. Now I'm
leaving, just Lucky says, before either
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of us does something we'll regret.
And Afro does you know? Two double
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shots almost you're lost. Everyone's beautiful
on Gallator three, and this is you
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know, Africa's dancing and dancing and
if they're not, they can be.
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Hey you here with anyone, you
know as you know someone's approaching Afro not
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anymore, Afro says, Stroving lights
and little extra to take the edge off
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will make anyone look like a hollow
star. And that's good enough for me.
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I guess you've got glitter on your
face? Sauna, whose Sanna?
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Nobody important? And we get another
killer kiss from Afro the stud The next
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morning, Afra in bed, Oh
my head, your reservation's up. What
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was that? I said, your
reservation's up? You want to stay longer?
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You buy more time? Buy?
Oh? Sure, the reservation is
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under the name Tevy. No.
The bill is addressed to doctor Shelley Lona
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Afra. What wait, what Domino's
data stick? It's gone that little I
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love Gallator three. Everyone's a mark
and the two who had gotten together last
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night after got played set a course
for Hobble Prime. Lads, you could
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thank sad little Shelly Lona Afra for
our next paycheck. And of course after
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runs to the Archangel four, there's
just lucky. You look terrible. That's
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some extra extra strength calf lucky it
after that ship. The girl from last
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night stole our data stick and stuck
me with a hotel built told you Gallator
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three was a bad idea boom,
and we find ourselves on a hobble prime
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and of course it's an ice planet
and it is gorgeous. We see Lucky
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and Afra peering over a chasm into
what looks like almost like an ice castle.
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Light. This place is bleak.
Do you think the warehouse facility would
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stand out in this waist land?
But everything looks the same here. It's
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good camouflage, it's just Lucky.
But that's not enough to hide from a
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sniper. And just Lucky fires off
a tether gun right into one of the
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columns, striking it. Chok.
Yes, says Afra. That's why I
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keep you around. Everyone's responsible older
sibling. That's me. I'll lead,
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grab onto my waist. Why don't
you grab onto my waist because you'll drop
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me into the ravine spoil sport,
says Afro. And they slide down and
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there are footprints. They are footprints, more than one person's by the look
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of it. And there's an insurance, you know, a sort of a
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big garage bay door. And the
door is very locked, as that tagger
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data stick held all the access codes. Like that's ever stopped me, says
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Afro. I used to pick up
our clone war era tech for fun,
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and so Afro puts hand to the
panel. The lights are off. That's
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weird. If I were stealing something, i'd want to be able to see
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it, says Afra is just lucky
walks on. Well, the lights don't
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work at all. Industrial power cells
are built the last for fifty years.
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Sometimes they burn out, but all
of them. I don't like this at
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all. A dog. And then
they're going through we see battle droids,
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lots of battle droids. That's a
lot of battle droids. Well, I
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guess if you're testing a mass manufacturing
process, you're end up with a surplus.
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This is a decade's worth of dust. No one's touched the used to
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froids in a long time. And
you know in this panel we see Jess
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Luckey an Afra in the background.
In the foreground is a little mouse droid
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going. But the whoosh is a
specific color of violet. Should put two
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and two together after says I'm gonna
take apart, take one apart to check
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the power sells. Well, if
you're sure it, says Jess Lucky.
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I found footprints on the dust,
so I'll follow their Oh, void just
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Lucky has found the others and they're
surrounded by more of those droids. Doc,
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we have a problem, and app
as just Lucky says that after realizes
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it's the same because the droid she
was about to take apart comes to life
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and its eyes are purple. Ah, and then all the droids come to
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life with purple eyes. Carc says
Afro, and we get a to be
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continued in Doctor Afra number thirty six. So yeah, an issue really worthy
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of being a seventy five seventy fifth
issue. I liked the clinical aspect of
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Domino Taga and how she treats Afra, because Afra is an employee and a
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means to an end and nothing more. And I think that's really sort of
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chafing on Afra, who of course
clearly is still very much stuck on Sana,
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as she rightfully should be, I
believe. So, so we'll see
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what happens in the next issue.
The next offing is going to be Bounty
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hundred thirty seven, so for our
Dark Droids tail. But yeah, again,
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this issue is gonna cause a lot
a lot of joy, a lot
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a lot of joy, and maybe
a little heartbreak. We'll see. But
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I like the I like I like
the fact that Just Lucky is getting very
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serious about Ariel, and Ariel is
getting very serious about Just Lucky because we
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just want everybody to be happy.
You know, we really did. I
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mean, it makes perfect sense.
So that said, what have we got
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coming out next week? Well,
you are in Luck. On Tuesday the
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twenty nine, we get the Doctor
Afro Omnibus, Volume two, which collects
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the entire or you know, issues
one through twenty five of the second Doctor
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Afro un We are also getting the
High Republic Adventures the Complete Phase one from
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dark Horse, and that's going to
collect the IDW published the High Republic Adventures
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one through thirteen, the Galactic Bakeoff
one shot, as well as the twenty
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twenty one and twenty twenty three Free
Comic Book Day issues. Now on Wednesday,
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August thirtieth, we get the aforementioned
Bounty Hunters number thirty seven, We
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get the Mandalorian Season two number three, and we get Hyperspace Stories Number eight
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of twelve from dark Horse Comics.
So it's gonna be about full week.
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I hope everybody pre ordered their omnibuses. I don't before that. It's a
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Star Wars plash page matts. The
Star Wars flash page theme song is mark
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him can handle on chris Cape.
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You're listening to Star Wars splash page, episode number three hundred and fifty seven,
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and it's me just Matt. Jeff
can't be here tonight, and frankly
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that's his loss. But hey,
he's a lot a week off, aren't
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you. I know, I am, so why not him? You'll allow
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it, but we still miss your
Jeff. Me. Oh no, stay,
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it's been made. I'm gonna be
as before looks hard, gon I
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don't want to. It's running the
Galasnee because this computer rock Star Wars,
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and here's hoping that the you know, we are going to be back celebrating
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her one hundredth issue as well.
So and this one is quite a bang,
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quite a bang. A lot of
people are going to be very,
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very very over the moon with this
issue for some obvious reasons. It's a
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Dark Droids tie in, which,
of course is no surprise. It's everything
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when it comes to monthly Star Wars
comics except for the upcoming mini series and
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the High Republic are going to be
related to the Dark Droids massive crossover event.
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But first, the news, well, the big news is last week
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it was revealed that coming in November, there will be another Star Wars Visions
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one shot being written and illustrated by
Peach Momoco, who is one of the
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great, great, great contemporary artists
working in the medium today. But in
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the announcement that was on star Wars
dot com, it also said that this
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is the first of a series of
one shots that feature stories that will be
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untethered to, you know, the
Star Wars storytelling. So to my mind,
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it's almost like we're getting a new
run of Star Wars tales that Dark
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Horse Comics ran back in the nineties
in the in the early two thousands of
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Memory Serves, and those are always
some of my most favorite stories because I
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mean, you were just allowed,
you know, the sky was the limit
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you could export individual character. You
know, it didn't matter if it was
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canon or not, obviously, and
so there was just so much storytelling potential
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that you can definitely check out the
link of the show notes to this announcement.
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It's due to arrive November fifteen,
and it is going to be part
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of the solicits for November that are
going to be coming out this week.
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The manchould be coming out today on
Star Wars dot Com, or if not,
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then Thursday, when Marvel releases its
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those on Twitter in the base fook
page as well, So get very excited
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about that. It's going to be
a whole lot of fun. As a
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matter of Factmoko told star wars dot
Com that she quote, I really enjoy
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thinking about how to tell my own
version of Star Wars while keeping in mind
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the concepts of the original universe.
So this initial story picks up centuries after
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the death of a major Sith Lord, with a cult called Ncock having grown
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around the notorious Dark Side servant Tata. The leader of the cult, believe
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she is the rightful successor to the
Sith Lord. Meanwhile, a girl named
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Keko at her loyal loyal droid gel
are faded to confront this new evil.
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So really really looking forward thisss and
it's gonna be a whole lot of fun,
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a whole lot of fun. And
other news. Of course, the
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Mandalorian Season two mini series is continuing
along. It will be eight issues,
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but we are starting to see another
raft of retailer exclusive variant covers. A
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matter of fact, on on this
past week, uh kale in kale Gou
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had a great one for issue number
five, featuring Asokatano, and then of
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course Trinity Comics is going to do
a black and white version uh for Doctor
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Afro number thirty six. It's it's
a it's the black and white version of
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the Clone Wars fifteenth Anniversary variant by
IM just so that'll be very much worth
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checking out as well as uh,
you know, more covers coming from UH
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from UH from Unknown Comics as well, including one by Peach Momoco. Last,
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but not least, Charles soul is
uh uh prepping readers of the upcoming
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Shadows of Starlight mini series on Twitter. He said he had just had a
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letter's pass on the first issue and
is just really really says there's a whole
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lot to digest from this mini series. Uh. You know, it's set,
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it's four issues, and it's covering
the missing year after the fall of
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Starlight Beacon, and there's little beats
and big picture reveals for Phase three and
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there's even a certain Jedi who pops
up that he showed Ibraean Robertson's artwork,
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and I think if you're a THHR
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enjoy this one. So that's pretty
much it for the news. We will
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dive right in to Doctor Afra number
thirty five. Again, this is a
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Dark Droids tie in, so we
have the appropriate dress, if you will.
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On the cover of the issue.
First it comes for the metal and
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then it comes for her. This
of course is written by Alissa Wong,
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the art is by Minky Young,
colors are by Rachelle Rosenberg. Letters are
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by Virtual Calogrophies Joe Karamania. The
cover artist is Young Yung yun, and
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there are of course variants, including
a Salvador La Roca and Nolan Wordard homage
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to the Star Wars number one that
certainly when it was first revealed, caused
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a lot of us and oz and
having seen it in person, I can
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tell you they were all justified.
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fortieth anniversary variant by Chris Sprouse,
Carl Story and ni Ajmanon, and then
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there is a Clone Wars fifteenth anniversary
variant by Jesseppa, Kamcoley and Haysy.
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Supertoff book designer is Carlos Lao.
Michael J. Basso is our assistant editor,
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Danny Kasim is our editor, Mark
Benezia is our senior editor, and
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CB Sabolsky is our editor in chief
from Lucasfilm. We've got senior editor Robert
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Simpson, Creative director Michael Siglin,
Art director is Troy Alders. From the
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story group, it's Matt Martin,
Pablo Hidalgo, and Emichkokani. And our
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creative art manager is Phil Shostat.
Now again, this story is called Mad
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Methods, and we open up the
book and it's all about the Taga family.
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Domino Taga is the head of the
Taga Corporation and we're the largest companies
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in the galaxy, which has had
a hand and everything from food distribution to
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mining and even weapons development and droid
production. But something is going wrong with
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droids throughout the galaxy. First it
comes for the metal, then it comes
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for everything else. And we open
up and we are in Utah Town.
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A nar shut up and there is
a deal going down. I told you
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each show you owe me ten credits
uchuh money first and then you can touch.
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And of course we had a Rodian
saying I need to inspect the item.
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You won't see a single credit.
If this is counterfeit, oh trust
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me, it's real. And of
course all this is translated from the hauties
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and they crack it open and we
see a reflection of the rodian from what
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is clearly a droid is some kind. We lifted these from an old Tager
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Corporation warehouse on mil Vane, never
used, never sold, and now all
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yours if you can pay you want
how much for an old stolen droid?
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I know you're for it, so
it don't even tried it, And all
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of a sudden, the droid's eyes
turn on and their purple, and it
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pops out and it looks like an
old separatist battle droid in a set.
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It's like almost like a droid aga, but it's a clearly somewhat different,
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but the style is a little a
little similar. Joom joom, joom koom.
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What the hell that thinks power cells
should be inactive? By got a
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hell? Ten man m And the
droid is knocked out, but the droid
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has done its job. And that's
where we cut two. The acquisitor Tager
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Company's flagship Domino Tagger with Lappin Tiger, and they've got the droid in pieces
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on the table. It's almost like
it's a droid autopsy. And Lappin says,
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I've never seen this model of droid
before, Lady Domino. It looks
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similar to a clone War Arab battle
droid, but there aren't records of Tager
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Corporation manufacturing these. That's because we
didn't. You're too young to remember this,
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Labin. But the former heads of
the company, my parents, Sonia
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and Killigan, were separatists. They
made a bid for the battle droid contract
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but failed to secure it. This
was my very first design, and the
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way Domina is holding it, you
can it's it's obvious that she relishes the
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work that she put into it.
And we get a flashback house of Taga
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recreational Estate many years ago, and
we see a young Domino Tager at the
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drawing board as it were, although
it's young, it's much more of a
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digital board. And she's, you
know, a Dominant surrounded by her siblings,
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Old Rick Taga, Silas Tiger or
Muntaga Domino. Domino Domina, What
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are you drawing? Some kind of
ug little droid? Those like joints would
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never work with a spine. Shut
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our baby sister's a genius. She's
not a genius. I'm the genius.
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Welcome to you so thick headed?
Then, huh, they don't stop annoying
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me. I'll put my pen through
their eyes. A Dominus as to ulrich
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boys. The parents walk in.
That's of course, Killion and Sonya Taga,
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heads of Tiger Company. This behavior
hardly befits the future of Tager Corporation.
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Sorry, now walk us through this
battle droid, design Domino and keep
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cost in mass manufacturing in mind.
Yes, mother, father, this element
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is And we cut back to the
acquisitor now, and there's doctor Afra walking
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in on Lady Domina and lappin.
Oh, look at this. Who robbed
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the Clone wars and dumped its pieces
on a lab table? That's a good
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question, doctor Afra. In this
case, it was pirates. They broke
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into an old company warehouse and stole
the prototype Tagga battle droid. Something went
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awry on Narshada. The pirates and
their prospective buyer were all killed, apparently
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by this droid. But look at
this, Domina reaches in, and Afra
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clearly, astutely observes the power cells
are missing. Correct, We've removed them
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for storage. So you're telling me
that somehow this droid killed a bunch of
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people without a power source that shouldn't
be possible exactly, and that's why I
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need you to investigate how it happened. We've secured the first warehouse, but
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there's a second on novel Prime.
I want you to see if that batch
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of droids is having similar issues.
Sorry, wait, are you asking me
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to walk into a warehouse of faulty
killer droids to check out there murderous by
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flaw or murderous by design? Yes? No, no way, I don't
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know how crazy you think I am. You'll be getting danger paid. I'm
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in some great lettering here, so
as after turns round, of course you
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are now come with me, says
Lady Domino. Now there are some other
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matters I'd like to discuss with you, doctor Afra, a mutual arrangement that
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you may be interested in. Wait, this isn't the way to your office.
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No, it's not leave us that
the yes, Lady Domina, Well,
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then, Afra, and clearly we
have walked into Lady Domina's bed chamber.
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And what a bedchamber it is?
To which, after replies, far
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be it for me to keep a
lady waiting? Some ground rules before we
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start. Rules one more to improvisation, and of course At this point,
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Afre is starting to undress. Domino
Tagger. I don't leave anything to chance.
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Afra defined terms, hard boundaries.
If we're going to move forward,
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I need your agreement. Oh I
agree, danger and authority or two of
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my favorite things. Maybe we can
continue agreeing over there. Mis Afra nods
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her head toward the bed. Optimization
is everything, replies Domina. Ooof,
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and she pushes Afra onto the bed. Although iteration is an important part of
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the process, and that's where Lady
Domina delivers, as Watts would say,
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a kiss that kills upon the lips
of doctor Afro, which replies, I
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boom. Can work with that until
the next morning. Of course, Lady
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Domina is up and working and after
stairs, Domina, you're up already.
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My first meeting was three hours ago. I've just secured the rights to Keptic
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and its moons. Listen, Domino
about last night. I believe I made
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the nature of our arrangement very clear. If you want romance or a relationship,
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seek it elsewhere. You have your
assignment dismissed. And this page is
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almost worth it just for the look
on after space, because it's usually Afro
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who's doing the dismissing, not being
the dismissed, so sort of the tables
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have turned on her. So she
stormed, well, I don't say she
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storms up, but she strides out
with purpose. And there's just Lucky,
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Hey, Doc, I don't want
to hear it. Lucky. Sleeping with
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a tagger is always a bad idea. Sleeping with your boss even worse,
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speaking from experience, after replies,
just trying to watch out for you talk,
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don't it's nothing. Domino is not
looking for anything, and neither am
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I. And you know they're approaching
the Archangel four, right, I'm guessing
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you still haven't heard from Sanna then, which is a nice, nice little
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way to sort of stick the knife
into the back and twist it just a
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smidge there. You always call me
when you're right out of allies or people
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to blackmail. I've got a fun
new game. Let's see how long you
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can go without saying anything until they
reach Havel Prime, and after just you
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know, rockets out of the out
of the Acquisitor and aboard the Archangel four
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and they fly to Zoul's house.
Galator three. This is not Hovel Prime,
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No, it's better. Welcome to
Zoul's House. The best nightclub on
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Galator three. The prettiest girls or
boys, if you're into that. The
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prettiest people really come here to party
on their daddy's credits. You can get
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anything you want here, no limits. Everyone's a mark and they love it.
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And there's some great color work here
inside the club because they're you know,
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shades of lavender and purple and just
you know, blends really nicely.
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So you get the really energetic vibe
of this of this nightclub, you know,
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as people are dancing to and Fro, Hey you you're just my friend's
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tight get into dance? Yeah,
sorry, So it's just Lucky, I'm
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off the market. What was that
doc? You know? Ariel and I
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are serious. Now what did you
get so uptight? Shut the hell up
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and let's have some fun. These
things never last anyway. You might as
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well start the rebound. Now I'm
leaving, just Lucky says, before either
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of us does something we'll regret.
And Afro does you know? Two double
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shots almost you're lost. Everyone's beautiful
on Gallator three, and this is you
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know, Africa's dancing and dancing and
if they're not, they can be.
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Hey you here with anyone, you
know as you know someone's approaching Afro not
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anymore, Afro says, Stroving lights
and little extra to take the edge off
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will make anyone look like a hollow
star. And that's good enough for me.
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I guess you've got glitter on your
face? Sauna, whose Sanna?
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Nobody important? And we get another
killer kiss from Afro the stud The next
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morning, Afra in bed, Oh
my head, your reservation's up. What
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was that? I said, your
reservation's up? You want to stay longer?
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You buy more time? Buy?
Oh? Sure, the reservation is
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under the name Tevy. No.
The bill is addressed to doctor Shelley Lona
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Afra. What wait, what Domino's
data stick? It's gone that little I
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love Gallator three. Everyone's a mark
and the two who had gotten together last
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night after got played set a course
for Hobble Prime. Lads, you could
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thank sad little Shelly Lona Afra for
our next paycheck. And of course after
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runs to the Archangel four, there's
just lucky. You look terrible. That's
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some extra extra strength calf lucky it
after that ship. The girl from last
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night stole our data stick and stuck
me with a hotel built told you Gallator
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three was a bad idea boom,
and we find ourselves on a hobble prime
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and of course it's an ice planet
and it is gorgeous. We see Lucky
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and Afra peering over a chasm into
what looks like almost like an ice castle.
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Light. This place is bleak.
Do you think the warehouse facility would
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stand out in this waist land?
But everything looks the same here. It's
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good camouflage, it's just Lucky.
But that's not enough to hide from a
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sniper. And just Lucky fires off
a tether gun right into one of the
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columns, striking it. Chok.
Yes, says Afra. That's why I
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keep you around. Everyone's responsible older
sibling. That's me. I'll lead,
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grab onto my waist. Why don't
you grab onto my waist because you'll drop
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me into the ravine spoil sport,
says Afro. And they slide down and
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there are footprints. They are footprints, more than one person's by the look
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of it. And there's an insurance, you know, a sort of a
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big garage bay door. And the
door is very locked, as that tagger
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data stick held all the access codes. Like that's ever stopped me, says
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Afro. I used to pick up
our clone war era tech for fun,
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and so Afro puts hand to the
panel. The lights are off. That's
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weird. If I were stealing something, i'd want to be able to see
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it, says Afra is just lucky
walks on. Well, the lights don't
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work at all. Industrial power cells
are built the last for fifty years.
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Sometimes they burn out, but all
of them. I don't like this at
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all. A dog. And then
they're going through we see battle droids,
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lots of battle droids. That's a
lot of battle droids. Well, I
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guess if you're testing a mass manufacturing
process, you're end up with a surplus.
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This is a decade's worth of dust. No one's touched the used to
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froids in a long time. And
you know in this panel we see Jess
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Luckey an Afra in the background.
In the foreground is a little mouse droid
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going. But the whoosh is a
specific color of violet. Should put two
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and two together after says I'm gonna
take apart, take one apart to check
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the power sells. Well, if
you're sure it, says Jess Lucky.
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I found footprints on the dust,
so I'll follow their Oh, void just
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Lucky has found the others and they're
surrounded by more of those droids. Doc,
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we have a problem, and app
as just Lucky says that after realizes
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it's the same because the droid she
was about to take apart comes to life
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and its eyes are purple. Ah, and then all the droids come to
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life with purple eyes. Carc says
Afro, and we get a to be
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continued in Doctor Afra number thirty six. So yeah, an issue really worthy
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of being a seventy five seventy fifth
issue. I liked the clinical aspect of
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Domino Taga and how she treats Afra, because Afra is an employee and a
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means to an end and nothing more. And I think that's really sort of
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chafing on Afra, who of course
clearly is still very much stuck on Sana,
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as she rightfully should be, I
believe. So, so we'll see
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what happens in the next issue.
The next offing is going to be Bounty
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hundred thirty seven, so for our
Dark Droids tail. But yeah, again,
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this issue is gonna cause a lot
a lot of joy, a lot
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a lot of joy, and maybe
a little heartbreak. We'll see. But
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I like the I like I like
the fact that Just Lucky is getting very
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serious about Ariel, and Ariel is
getting very serious about Just Lucky because we
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just want everybody to be happy.
You know, we really did. I
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mean, it makes perfect sense.
So that said, what have we got
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coming out next week? Well,
you are in Luck. On Tuesday the
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twenty nine, we get the Doctor
Afro Omnibus, Volume two, which collects
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the entire or you know, issues
one through twenty five of the second Doctor
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Afro un We are also getting the
High Republic Adventures the Complete Phase one from
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dark Horse, and that's going to
collect the IDW published the High Republic Adventures
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one through thirteen, the Galactic Bakeoff
one shot, as well as the twenty
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twenty one and twenty twenty three Free
Comic Book Day issues. Now on Wednesday,
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August thirtieth, we get the aforementioned
Bounty Hunters number thirty seven, We
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get the Mandalorian Season two number three, and we get Hyperspace Stories Number eight
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of twelve from dark Horse Comics.
So it's gonna be about full week.
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