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 we've covered!

topics of discussion include: Dark Horse Comics, Across The Spider-Verse, digital coloring, starting the book and being the writer, As You Know, The greatest husband and wife gunner team in the galaxy, Dr. Claw, Salla Zend, the baby bench, Terra Kingdom Hearts, screaming cowboy cat, Supernatural power creep, amphibions, Ewoks, Hobie being with his mother, does Star Wars have cravats, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, Maric Theirin and cheese, temporary Benedictine monks, the Eisner Hall Of Fame, Timothy Chalomet for some reason?

Zev can be found online at sophia-goodnight-poetry.tumblr.com and her other podcast Swords Against Cerebus can be found on gruppeshrike.net

Zev (who also did our cover art) can be found online at chalkpastelmancer.tumblr.com

We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's meager web presence is at talk-about-dash-rendar.tumblr.com

We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's theme music was composed by Avery Crimes

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 whatever who gives a shit, let Peggle 2 make calls" of a series.

Topics of discussion include: Batman Black, The Social Network, names for babies with three eyes, Tom Bombadil singing Oompa Loompa songs, Archie Goodwin's naming conventions, Corky Baxter, Porgie Tirebiter, laser pistol earrings, Grand Admiral Grunger, Monzaemon, Doonium the baby Phobium, Snoke Loroan, Timothy Leary, A Canticle for Leibowitz

Baja Blast (who also did our cover art) can be found online at chalkpastelmancer.tumblr.com

Cammy can be found online at sophia-goodnight-poetry.tumblr.com and her other podcast Swords Against Cerebus can be found on gruppeshrike.net

We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's meager web presence is at talk-about-dash-rendar.tumblr.com

We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's theme music was composed by Avery Crimes

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 in anything, the story is grounded in racism and sexism, and Timothy Zahn is no Steven Erikson.

Topics of discussion include WOE.BEGONE, Malazan Book of the Fallen, Radiata Stories, taxation on exotic biomolecules, Joruus Peterson, Kerobos Lord Satan, Skyewalkers: A Clone Wars Story, Dengar (again), hardcore crinbid fanatics, cool birds, novels about the military draft.

Editors note in case it's unclear: The reason that the treatment of aliens by a text can be racist is because aliens are a racialized Other and it reflects the author and society's consideration of racialized Others, not because it's specifically racist against, say, the Noghri.

Jakhe Ph’eyke (who also did our cover art) can be found online at chalkpastelmancer.tumblr.com

Vhrischtka can be found online at sophia-goodnight-poetry.tumblr.com and her other podcast Swords Against Cerebus can be found on gruppeshrike.net

We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's meager web presence is at talk-about-dash-rendar.tumblr.com

We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's theme music was composed by Avery Crimes