Star Wars: Delusions Of Granular

And just like that, a new Star Wars Legends story is published. In honor of Marvel's 80th anniversary, Star Wars #108 continues where the story left off decades ago when Marvel lost the Star Wars license to Dark Horse. Now we can get a conclusion to a story that we never knew we needed!

Inspired by the reinterpretation of the duel between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader in A New Hope, "Scene 38," Ron talks about head canon, the idea that anything can be canon in the Star Wars saga if it is just too darn good for it not to be.

Ron gets back into it with a new episode of SWDOG. This episode is all about Force ghosts or Jedi spirits or whatever they are called. Maybe they are something else? Maybe the different ways that Jedi have passed on has been intentional right for the start when Obi-Wan died in A New Hope? Join Ron as he kicks around his theory about what these "luminous beings" actually are.

Petitions, boycotts, and harassment on social media. On this new episode of SWDOG, we try to figure out how to heal Star Wars fandom from the state it is in.

Steve reviews the newly released Guardians of the Whills! Though this junior novel is a quick read that takes place on one planet, there are little things here and there that make the Galaxy feel big. Take a listen to his awesome mix...of comments!

In a surprise even to himself, Ron records a new episode of SWDOG just in time for the 40th anniversary of the initial release of Star Wars. To mark the occasion, he talks about what Star Wars has meant to him, reassesses the the movies, books, comics, fandom and the future of everything. Join us as we continue to stay granular!

Steve talks about Thrawn again, this time in the canonical novel Thrawn by Timothy Zahn. Here he goes over some references to Legends, what he thought the story did well, and some minor things that he found irritating. His thoughts also wander to topics related to the recent Star Wars Celebration Orlando. All this in a granular episode!

Steve reviews Outbound Flight, a novel by Timothy Zahn that includes the characters Jorus C'baoth and Mitth'raw'nuruodo. Wait, why do those names sound familiar? That's right! This prequel era book ties into the Thrawn trilogy as well as other novels from Legends. Hear what connections Steve thinks were done well and what things he thought were redundant.

Steve reviews Poe Dameron: Lockdown. After the first arc showcased some "world-building," this second arc has some good world-building and connections to other stories. Give this granular episode a listen!

Steve goes all over the place in his review of Aftermath: Empire's End. As he evaluates it as a conclusion to a trilogy, he thinks about how it fits with everything else in canon and talks about Legends connections here and there. Did we get enough answers? What speculation was sparked? And how well were the characters handled? Take a listen to this granular review!

Season three of Star Wars Rebels gets serious as they show us the backstory of everyone's favorite Mandalore, Sabine Wren. As one of the more interesting characters of the show, she finally gets the story and conclusion she deserves. But where does that leave the rest of the characters and what will happen in the rest of this season and in the newly announced fourth season of the show. Ron can only speculate but he feels that things are finally getting "real" for the once thought of kids show. Find out what else has been going on in this episode of SWDOG.

Steve reviews 2005's Star Wars: Visionaries, a collection of comic stories written by Revenge of the Sith concept artists. Despite a few criticisms here and there, Steve thinks that there are some neat stories and great artistic experimentation. Hear his granular take on this book!

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the official title of Episode VIII. Ron give you his thoughts about that and some other Star Wars news that's been happening.

The recent Star Wars: Rebels trailer shows that there may be a Maul vs Kenobi rematch on Tatooine. We've seen this before in Aaron McBride's non-canon comic "Old Wounds" from 2005's Star Wars: Visionaries (in which Kenobi somehow already has gray hair three years after Revenge of the Sith). Steve questions the logic of this story and whether or not we really need to see Maul have the same fate. He also wonders how the cancelled Darth Maul video game (concept art of which has recently been released) would have played out.

In 2013, Dark Horse released In the Shadow of Yavin, the first arc of Brian Woods' comic series simply titled Star Wars. Envisioned as an easily accessible arc that would act as if it's 1977 and nothing other than the first movie is out, that concept is actually played loose, with this arc including stuff from post-1977 installments (Boba Fett, Death Star II, Coruscant, Chalactans, etc.). Hear Steve scratch his head over this sort of reboot (but not really) that came out not too long before the canon reboot!

Last November Carrie Fisher released what would end up being her final memoir, The Princess Diarist. In it she talks about her time during the filming of the original Star Wars movie. The hype around this book was that she finally reveals the love affair she had with Harrison Ford but Ron finds that the other details about what it was like to be an unknown actor, making a small sci-fi movie, in the UK, in the 1970's even more fascinating. Sadly, Carrie Fisher suffered a fatal heart attack while promoting this book. Find out if this memoir is just as entertaining as her previous two.

Steve reviews The Last Flight of the Harbinger, the latest completed arc of Jason Aaron's Star Wars comics. Though this story was expected to delve deep into the lives of stormtroopers, it instead ended up being another adventure focused mostly on the OT characters, this time stealing a Star Destroyer and having a juvenile race to see who becomes captain of it. (And it's canon! GASP!) All this and more in this granular review!

Rogue One surprised us all when we saw a resurrected Peter Cushing and a young Carrie Fisher on screen again. Computer generated actors are something that Hollywood has been flirting with for a while but what are the ethics involved in using an actors likeness without having their actual permission. Is this something that we are going to see a lot of in future movies or is the technique going to be used sparingly? Join us as we give our thoughts on this movie magic. 

Steve "Sheev" Shinder has caught up on some comics and talks about Kelly Thompson's Star Wars Annual 2. In this one-shot, an injured Leia finds herself with a new character named Pash "Bash" Davane, whose neutral stance on the Galactic Civil War is intriguing. Find out how this issue resonates with Steve in light of Rogue One and the passing of the wonderful Carrie Fisher.

Ron talks about Carrie Fisher's life and death.