We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar

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...

This fortnight, hosts Wheel (they/them) and Endurance (she/her) read Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu , the first entry in L. Neil Smith's Lando Calrissian Trilogy. We pretty much enjoyed it a lot! We're going to be with Smith for three episodes total, so keep tuning in to see how much that stays true. Hear Wheel beef with Iron Man 3 and Stephen King, and Endurance beef with the...

Welcome back for part 2 of our Return of the Jedi episode; make sure you listened to part 1 first! This one contains all our "segments" – Timeline, Prurient's Implications Corner, Droids Rights Watch, Firsts and EU corner, and a bit more. You'll also hear Pinafore's David Lynch impression, and Prurient's Pinafore impression! Pinafore Tyche can be found online at sophia-go...

Join hosts Pinafore Tyche (she/her) and Prurient A Scintilla (they/them) as they discuss Return of the Jedi , both the movie and the novelization by James Kahn. It was certainly better than the novelization of Empire Strikes Back ! After a brief diversion about another James's Peacemaker , Pinafore and Prurient get down to brass tacks and discuss the Robocop and Men in Black cartoons. Ewoks ar...

Back in the warm embrace of Brian Daley, hosts and eggmates Naught Bos (they/them) and Tumoeis Bos (She/Her) discuss Rebel Mission to Ord Mantell , an audio play about that business with the bounty hunter back on Ord Mantell. It's really fun! Problem is, it's pretty short. This is why we discuss Tapirs as mounts, the Fastball Special, K-Pop Bounty Hunters (not like that), the giant rat tha...

Another episode of We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar about Comics? You know it! Scumbag Cassiopeia Weasel (she/her) and her henchperson K'lok (they/them) read Star Wars Omnibus A Long Time Ago… Volume 3 and had a pretty good time! Learn about Legally Distinct Barsoom, the psychic rabbits of Arbra, and Luke's first redheaded Imperial-trained girlfriend, who has never been shipped with Tanith Shire....

Join hosts Gabbiani (they/them) and Veruca (she/her) as we discuss the exceedingly lackluster The Newspaper Strips Volume 1 . We didn't like this one, but at least it's no Splinter Of The Mind's Eye . Suffer through a discussion of Funky Winkerbean with a lot more ease than we suffered through these absolute nothing comics, and always remember, ARCAB (All Robot Cops Are Bastards). I'd rather be pl...

In this episode of We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar , join hosts Chaos-Take-You Windshear (they/them) and Prim Incaendo (she/her) at the Darklighter Estate as they discuss Star Wars Omnibus A Long Time Ago… Vol 2 , which collects issues 28-49 and Annual 1 of the original Marvel run of Star Wars . It's significantly better than Volume 1! We mostly enjoyed it. We touch on the Apostle Paul again whe...

For the latest episode of We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar , your hosts Rosenguild and Sterncrantz read Han Solo and the Lost Legacy, the last Star Wars novel by Brian Daley. Don't let the shortness of the "things we liked" section fool you, we LOVED this book! Actually I'm not sure why this episode is so short, there was a lot to talk about and I think we talked about it? Inclu...

This week join Rogue 4 Miff and Rogue 13 Nak as they discuss The Empire Strikes Back , both the novelization by Donald Glut and the film. The book was…. not great. It wasn't bad, it was no Splinter of the Mind's Eye ! But it wasn't good. We discuss Land of the Lost and learn some very personal details about Miff, as well as the fact that neither Miff nor Nak can do a Harrison Ford impr...