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Once more we bolt into the wild blue yonder of "What If...?" but in Star Wars! Now it's time to dive into The Empire Strikes Back, which asks the bold question, "What if we killed our main character?" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month we're covering Daredevil: Born Again on Disney Plus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Luke Skywalker vs Darth Vader! ...sort of... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You kill one ace pilot due to friendly fire on a mission where you couldn't tell friend from foe and suddenly everyone forgets that you blew up the Death Star! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A daring mission. A bold strategy. A horrible tragedy. Holy crap y'all, this book actually had an arc that went somewhere. We'll see if we like where we end up though... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month we're discussing two new Marvel projects, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man and Captain America: Brave New World. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Luke Skywalker may not be the best at asking questions about a given circumstance but... No, actually, that's it. Farmboy is a very trusting fellow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lando vs Garbage Worm. What more could you ask for? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We all love Droid stories, right? Especially ones exclusively starring C-3PO and R2-D2? Okay, but what if they were both hurled into the sun? So that is not exactly what happens in this issue, but it's not not what happens in this issue. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jetpacks and Ugnaughts and Talking Bombs, oh my! It's part 2 of the Battle for Cloud City and we get off to an explosive start and finish! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Lobot Talk, we're talking Lobot. You know? Lobot? Lando's best pal and bald robot guy that lives on Cloud City? Yeah, that Lobot! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We take some time to look back on 2024 and all the things there that we liked! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After a sojourn into some 90s cross-promotional nonsense, we're hitting the ground running in the early 80s again as we kill more time before Return of the Jedi! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we are Paneling Up to talk about a couple of nasty folks gracing a small screen near you. Specifically Agatha All Along and The Penguin, to be clear. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We wrap up our time with Shadows of the Empire with a long hard look at ill-considered tie-in properties, the value of Dash Rendar and a strange love for going back to the early 80s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We continue our baffling coverage of this comic book adaptation(?) of Shadows of the Empire, the multimedia experiment with a couple of weak links. In this issue Luke inexplicably escapes captivity (unless you've read the novel), Prince Xizor gets gross and Boba Fett continues to be a monologuing nutcase! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're in the belly of the beast now as we cross the halfway mark of our coverage of Shadows of the Empire. Boba Fett is a maniac. Jabba needs to find better help. And Luke Skywalker, remember him? Well, we skip all the cool stuff he does to see him get captured. And we get an explanation for that disguise Leia wears in Return of the Jedi! Isn't that neat?! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Side characters? Oh boy do we have side characters! From Darth Vader's best pal to a swoop gang full of weirdos, we've got enough people who aren't really involved in the main plot to shake a stick at! And I guess Luke Skywalker is there too... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who is your Han Solo when you don't have Han Solo? It's Dash "Totally More Awesome than Han Solo" Rendar, baby! [Insert sick guitar licks here] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We start our coverage of Shadows of the Empire, the Star Wars media project without a movie at its center! Time to live in that sweet, sweet 90s nostalgia for a while. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's time we wrap things up on Barsoom as we close out this two parter of reused art and backbreaking story concessions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if Marvel made a John Carter of Mars comic? What? They did? Wait, why the heck are we talking about John Carter of Mars on a Star Wars comic book podcast?! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're digging into some good stuff here! Leia kicking butt, an Imperial Officer coup attempt and more Vader than you can shake a lightsaber at!

We're entering a bold new era of the original Marvel Star Wars comic, one full of rad Vader moments and plots that make sense! We won't get too attached but it's fun while it lasts.

They said we couldn't do it. Cover 50 issues of the original Marvel Star Wars book. They said, "Those Punch Up boys could never get it done!" Well we showed them, didn't we?

Let us continue our run of "Guys who think they are Jedi but probably aren't" in this book as Luke & Leia go undercover to do... something. There's a prince involved. That much we know.

On this month's Panel Up we discuss the newest Batman animated series. Spoiler alert, we liked it!

The debate is on about whether this is the worst issue of Marvel's original Star Wars series we have read thus far! It certainly ain't good. Unless you really wanted Darth Vader depicted like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon villain, in which case it will never get better than this.

You know what sort of stories are always the BEST in Star Wars? Droid-centric stories. You know, the ones that make us question things like the morality of artificial sentient beings and Luke Skywalker owning them. Yep. So cool.

We're through the looking glass on this one folks, in a Star Wars story so transgressive that the author took his own name off it. Just kidding, it's a weird jumble of mixed messages and space genies, though the writer did still take his name off of it...

But what if there was a Death Probe? We're moving beyond The Empire Strikes Back and into a bold new era that is really determined not to move too quickly. So let's start things off with a big scary space robot!

This week we discuss the newest entry in the Star Wars franchise, The Acolyte. We talk some High Republic, the usual rigmarole about hyperbolic "fans" and how the there is so much room for different stories in a Galaxy Far, Far Away.

We finally wrap up our coverage of the Star Wars sequel that could have been and it feels like the longest four issues we've ever covered. A lot of things happen all at once and we are left wondering... why?

We've reached the penultimate issue of Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the Star Wars sequel that wasn't. This week we've got worms and oozes and somewhat worrying indigenous people tropes, oh my! Only one issue left... okay, we can do this.

We're halfway through our trip down memory lane in the alternate reality where this was the sequel to the original Star Wars film. This week we talk about efficient Imperials and learn all about the Yuzzem. Don't worry kids, we've got Wookies at home!

This week we start our coverage of the sequel that never was as we discuss the comic book adaptation of the 1978 novel of the same name. The first piece of the Expanded Universe may not necessarily be the best, let's just put it that way...

Time to finish up our coverage of The Empire Strikes Back (at least this adaptation of it). Prepare for some harsh Comics Code editing and some weird art choices as we enter a bold new era in which the Star Wars franchise now consists of two whole movies!

It's the penultimate issue of our Empire Strikes Back coverage! That Lando character might be up to some shady business...

Time to throw on our yellow spandex and work out our emotional issues while facing a world that hates and fears us, because this month we're talking X-Men '97!

Prepare for the madness of tiny Yoda and his constant size-shifting shenanigans as we continue our coverage of The Empire Strikes Back as adapted by Marvel Comics.

We're halfway through our coverage of Marvel Comics' adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back and as we're reading a digital scan of what is clearly a reprint, we actually get some interesting info about how all of this got made!

The battle for Hoth is well under way as we continue our coverage of The Empire Strikes Back comic book adaptation from Marvel Comics. We ask the important questions like, where did all those Wumpas go?

It's the Empire's turn to Strike Back as we start our coverage of Marvel's adaptation of Episode V of the Star Wars Saga. New artists abound but the same old Shooter-era shenanigans crop up as we talk context, sequels and how one might follow up on the biggest movie in Hollywood history.

This month's Panel Up covers the Prime's new show Fallout. We discuss the nature of video game adaptations and just how good this one is!

We wrap up our coverage of the first Star Wars Infinites stories by discussing the moral relativism of Yoda's actions. That little green swamp goblin done did some baaaaad things...

For a New Hope remix, there sure is a lot of Empire Strikes Back in this book... As we cover the third installment of the first Star Wars Infinities book, we question Han's motivations and Leia's commitment to evil.

Things take some wild turns as we continue our coverage of the first Star Wars Infinities book. Not content to just be a "What If...?" of Episode 4, this comic dares to ask questions about a lot of things!

From one sandy planet to another, we head into the twisted reality that is Star Wars Infinites to ask ourselves, "What If..." but not really, because that's a Marvel thing and we're covering a Dark Horse book this week!

We're leaving one sandy planet for another and Frank Herbert is graciously not suing us as we take a break from our usual coverage for our monthly Panel Up! Time to head to the theaters for Dune Part 2 as we talk sequels, the larger Dune franchise and our thoughts on what the future might bring to the planet Arrakis.

Strap in for this one folks because Star Wars fill-in issues are always a doozy! As we wait (again) for the adaptation of Empire Strikes Back to begin, prepare for a journey out of Heavy Metal or 2000 AD. Oh, and also Luke Skywalker is there.

In which Mortal Kombat is declared but we must settle for a fight with some weird crystals around as a stage hazard. We are on the precipice of The Empire Strikes Back, but we must maintain our vigil of things that will be immediately ret-conned by the movie to come!