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  • I've Read His Dark Books (Dark Empire I)
    2026/08/24

    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

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    1 時間 43 分
  • The Regional Manager Of The JDTs (Star Wars Book One)
    2026/08/10

    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

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    1 時間 47 分
  • You Were Brief And Rather Incoherent (Dark Force Rising)
    2026/07/27

    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

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    1 時間 32 分
  • Arcing Like A Gray Rainbow (Heir To The Empire)
    2026/07/13

    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 absolutely love Mara Jade though! Where'd this noir femme fatale come from anyway?! Return in two weeks to be even further alienated by our thoughts on the second entry in the trilogy, Dark Force Rising.


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

    Ecumenical Datte 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

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    1 時間 42 分
  • We Will Speak No More Of This Now (Ewoks Comic)
    2026/06/29

    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 specific problems with this comic. Which are plentiful, by the way. To sum it up, we're angry about children's media being so disrespectful of children. You need to write to the top of the audience's intelligence!

    Topics of the day include: Complementarianism, Georgism, Franchisification, Dooni the Baby Foonar, Animism, Bifrost, Amphibia, Half-Life Full-Life Consequences, Ace of the Royal Flush Gang, The Lack Of Clowns


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

    Nerdley (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

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    1 時間 31 分
  • Will Our Trials Never End (Droids (1986))
    2026/06/15

    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. Then, Afit & Tifa completely sidestep talking about it to discuss how cute Dodogama is. We have to get our yaoi somewhere! That's. Not related to Dodogama. sorry.


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

    Tifa 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

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    1 時間 36 分
  • First Anniversary Mini-Ep
    2026/06/08

    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 Cerebus can be found on gruppeshrike.net

    Your other host (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

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    55 分
  • Eat Worms And Die, Stranger (Ewoks Season 2)
    2026/06/01

    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 nice? Help. Join us in 2 weeks for the Droids comic. Doug Doug & The Ploob


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

    Wheytlae (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

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    1 時間 36 分