idolatry

Betty Crocker doesn't go for baking. Instead, she picks up on another of Earth's great cultural exports - the pop idol group.

Twelve trolls, sent as an advance guard and scouting sect to lower the reservations and ferret out the details of Earth and it's resources, are the world's biggest hit.

Their frontman, Karkat Vantas, who is not a lead singer and stop calling him that, falls headfirst into a sparking rivalry with some chucklefuck named Strider who won't stop showing up. But he's the only human who's ever been able to match wits on the conversational battleground - and he's get a job to do. It can't become anything more...