May The Panel Be With You

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.

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!

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?!

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...

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]

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.

It's time we wrap things up on Barsoom as we close out this two parter of reused art and backbreaking story concessions.

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?!