We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar

Join Saffraun and Cardemaum as they tear into Kevin J Anderson's first Star Wars novel, Jedi Search , kicking off his Jedi Apprentice Trilogy. This book is… Not good. Leia's a bad mother, spice is just getting more baffling, and everyone's okay with slavery. Also like. The misogyny and racism are pretty bad, though there's worse to come. Kyp Durron's here at least. And Qwi Xux!...

Join Fomo and Kyyl Ray'Nore to discuss the delightfully mid Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi – Knights of the Old Republic (Formerly titled The Collection ), which collects the 1993-1994 5-issue mini-series Tales of the Jedi . These comics are pretty fine! Other than the racism. So. The first chunk is Not that fine. There is, however, a Jedi dragon with a hookah, so who's to say whether it&#39...

Oh! Oh it's good! It's a good book! Dykeriel Hattison and Ovid Woims discuss the wonderful novel The Truce At Bakura by Kathy Tyers. The plot is compelling and there's a lot of feet! Well really just two feet, but a lot of them. There's also a tooth pervert, a sad man, meditations on what the soul is and whether it's stored on a floppy disk – this book really had it all! We jus...

Join Wing Commanders Hotlegs and Garth Mater as they finish off the Thrawn Trilogy with The Last Command by Timothy Zahn. you will not be surprised to learn that we hated this one! Has the Star Wars fandom been gaslighting everyone about these books? If only Zahn cared about art at all, maybe Thrawn would work! But alas, it was not done artfully. We had so much to complain about that we had to cir...

Join Fubar and Faendal as they discuss Star Wars: Book Two , which collects Mission From Mount Yoda , Queen of the Empire , and Prophets of the Dark Side , by Paul & Hollace Davids. They're just as bad and not as good as the ones from Star Wars: Book One . The prose is garbage and the absolute bonkers quality has been ratcheted down. This shit is so ass. (Don't worry listeners, Fubar d...

Oh blessed day, We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar returns with an actually GOOD piece! Zev & Zev read Dark Empire I , a 6 issue mini-series written by Tom Veitch, drawn by Cam Kennedy, and published by Dark Horse Comics. The art is gorgeous and the writing is pretty good, and the vibes, as we say several times in this episode, are immaculate . Please read this comic book! It's top 5 things...

Bad morning to you, our evil listeners! In this episode of We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar , hosts Cammy and Baja Blast read Star Wars: Book One , which collects The Glove Of Darth Vader , The Lost City of the Jedi , and Zorba The Hutt's Revenge . They're even dumber than those titles suggest. There's a whale vacuum! We had a lot of fun. These books sucked very bad. A real "sure...

Well gang, this may be the last episode of We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar you ever listen to. Not because we're ending, we're not gonna stop for at least 11 years. No, it's because Vhrischtka and Jakhe Ph’eyke kind of hated Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn. We'll respect you if you don't want to follow us any longer. But the characters are uncompelling and don't believe...

Season Two of We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar is here, as Ecumenical Datte and Liturgical Moruss begin our campaign to make enemies of the entire Star Wars fandom by not liking Heir To The Empire by Timothy Zahn very much! Reading an actual novel was truly a balm after the absolute slog that was the Ewoks, but, well, unfortunately it's racist and the character writing is mostly flat. We do a...

Sweet release has come for us. Season One is over, and we're done with the Ewoks era of Star Wars – or at least, we will be after this episode. Hosts Nerdley and Fungo discuss the Ewoks Comics, including the three short stories published in the UK exclusive Ewoks Annual . Well, technically. We spend more time discussing the overall problem with the Ewoks era than we spend discussing the specif...

Welcome back to the penultimate episode of the Ewoks era of We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar ! Afit & Tifa are here for the Droids comic (1986) and it's. well. Better than the tv show. There's some mild fun to be had here. The low point is a retelling of A New Hope starring the droids that completely sidesteps the obvious premise of Artoo and Threepio Are Dead to instead feature moles...

Can you believe we've been doing We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar for a full year? Join your hosts for a brief conversation on how the project is going, a recap of our rankings so far, and a little bit on the future of the podcast! Here's to the next ten and a half years. One of your hosts can be found online at sophia-goodnight-poetry.tumblr.com and her other podcast Swords Against Cereb...

Oh god. no. Join Lezchee Lordyke and Wheytlae for. Christ. Ewoks Season 2. This one was rough, gang. A show that really typifies the problems with Saturday morning cartoons. What a struggle. I can't wait to stop thinking about this. Wheytlae alleges someone is a psychopomp, as is their wont. We disavow the Pugs. Why was this show so racist. Nothing mattered. There was a robot which was almost...

Join Spoom and Ladel again for the back half of Omnibus A Long Time Ago… Volume 5 as we close out the Star Wars Marvel Comics with issues 97-107! After a brief stopoff to discuss Droids… again… and roast James Hurley, we get to how much we enjoyed these issues! We've got some problems of course, but we do love Marvel Horseshit. Do you think Mary Jo Duffy likes Go Nagai? Spoom (who also did our cov...

Join Spoom and Ladel as we discuss the first half of Omnibus A Long Time Ago… Volume 5 , Issues 86 - 96 of the original Marvel Star Wars run. This was mostly fun! The parts that weren't really pissed us off though. There's even an echo of Splinter of the Mind's Eye Leia… But also a full refusal of her? Truly the Marvel comics are a land of contrasts.  Spoom (who also did our cover art) can be foun...

Join Mallow and Busto as they discuss The Great Heep , the TV "movie" of  Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO . Well it's better than the TV series! It's bad, though. The best part is the Droid Snuff. In both senses.  Mallow can be found online at sophia-goodnight-poetry.tumblr.com and her other podcast Swords Against Cerebus can be found on gruppeshrike.net Busto (who also did ou...

Join G0-053 and MV3-R1K as they descend into one of the worst Saturday morning cartoons ever,  Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO . This show was like stepping softly in a danger zone with no weapon in our hands. We hated this so much. There was neither a clown nor a Paul Lind impersonator.  G0-053 (who also did our cover art) can be found online at chalkpastelmancer.tumblr.com  ...

After watching the first season of the Ewoks cartoon, we got so excited about it that we jumped ahead to season 2! Join hosts Teyr-Melohn Purin Nehyn-Ban Purin as we start our painstaking journey through the second season of Ewoks episode by episode, starting with episode 1, A New Beginning . Happy April, everyone! Nehyn-Ban Purin can be found online at sophia-goodnight-poetry.tumblr.com and her o...

The Star Wars Critic and the Angry Star Wars Nerd watched season one of the Ewoks Saturday Morning Cartoon – and guess what listener, you're one of today's lucky 10,000! Was the theme song sung by Indrid Cold? (No it was Taj Mahal). This is the most you've heard the Critic sing yet. Esoteric bits aside, this show was actually like. Passable. We didn't like, like it or anything, and...

Gastri and Pythia watched Ewoks: The Battle For Endor and gang it's so bad. Last time we made some positive comparisons to Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and this time we make some negative comparisons. This movie was not even fun to watch. Don't watch this movie. There's not a sincere bone in this movie's blood. Wilford Brimley is awful. There's just orcs. At least there's...

Join hosts Peppermitt (she/her) and Perrault (they/them) as we discuss Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (formerly titled The Ewok Adventure ), which is legitimately a very fun movie. If you like made for tv family films from the 80s, you'll like this! We had such a good time that even our "Things We Didn't Like" section is mostly about what we liked, and we don't even me...

Join hosts Dano (they/them) and Dana (she/her) as they discuss Star Wars Omnibus A Long Time Ago Volume 4 , which collects issues 68-85 and Annual 3 of the original Marvel run of Star Wars comics. For the first time, Dano and Dana substantively disagree! Join us for some great segues and some spirited debate about caked up robots. One thing we can agree on is that we hate Slam Hardbody Wedge Antil...

Join Po'od Cassa (she/her) and Wratte Kynnnge (they/them) to discuss Star Wars Epic Legends Collection: The Newspaper Strips Vol. 2 , which collects the second half of the 70s to 80s Star Wars comic strip. We admit to a Buggles Boner and complain about The Thinker from TV's The Flash . And that's before we get to the comics! These were better than the first volume. We visit DNAngel for...

Join hosts Bateleur, a Sorcerer of Tunt (They/Them) and Étoile (She/Her) as we close out L. Neil Smith's Lando Calrissian Trilogy with Lando Calrissian And The Starcave of ThonBoka . The short version is that Smith crushed our spirits. Unlike our podcast, this book didn't have a point. Consider the many kinds of space whales and hear Bateleur (Sorcerer of Tunt) complain about Stephen Moffa...

Join hosts Yellow Bird (she/her) and Waltzing Mouse (they/them) as we discuss Lando Calrissian And The Flamewind of Oseon by L. Neil Smith. Once again, we quite enjoyed this! It was less racist than the last one.  We advocate for consensual torture and discuss memories of being Lost In The Mall. Yellow Bird does another unimpressive impression and Waltzing Mouse alludes to the AU where they're...