Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club

In a world that's all city, in a society who shines a bright light of civilization and sophistication that all lesser subjects should follow, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of The Oppo Rancisis Show, a traditional talk show about truth, where we go against the grain, we do our own research, and Alex, Davis and Jesse answer all of YOUR Star Wars Old Canon Book Club Q&A questions!

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And so...at the end of the journey...was not even just Droids and Ewoks again but also ANOTHER re-telling of the first Star Wars movie?!?! At least it's gorgeous! Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse, as on this week's episode, they finish the reading portion of season 1 with the surprisingly enjoyable The Original Marvel Years, Droids & Ewoks!

And hey! Now 3 of the 5 episodes of our special Patreon finale mini-series, Tracking Bantha Tracks, where the boys spend SUPERSIZED episodes, tracking the fan newsletter from BEFORE there was a magazine, from 1978-1987 are available early for Legacy of the...

Everyone's back for season 2 of the Ewoks cartoon...but something's...just a little...different? Whether by corporate edict or for creative purposes, each episode is now split into two shorter episodes, which is not exactly better, and not exactly worse, and Wicket's hood changing color is the LEAST of Alex, Davis, and Jesse's problems on this week's SWOCBC!

And if you like what you hear, consider supporting us on Patreon, where you can check out the first two episodes of our MEGA-SIZED finale bonus Tracking Bantha Tracks, where the boys spend hours speeding through the fan club...

From the villains of Indiana Jones to a forgotten THREE-SEASON USA/Canadian sitcom adaptation of Maniac Mansion by the legendary Eugene Levy and Joe Flaherty, Inside the Insider Collection 4 covers episodes 10, 11, and 12 of our Patreon Bonus show all about chronologically reading the official fan magazine of the franchise!

For the first episode of our EXTREMELY CHUNKY bonus miniseries, Tracking Bantha Tracks, which covers the fan club when the magazine was just a newsletter, head over to Patreon.com/SWOCBC!

With another inexplicably excellent and unexpected theme song to welcome them in, Alex, Davis, and Jesse are buckling down and housing an entire season of the Ewoks children's cartoon all in one go! But will Paul Dini and Taj Mahal be enough to save them from five hours of drudgery? Find out on this week's episode!

And good news! SWNCBC Legends Collection Volume 3 is here, including our reviews of The Last Jedi, Phasma, and Inferno Company, COMPLETELY FREE FOR EVERYONE at Patreon.com/SWOCBC! We could use your support!

The Original Marvel Comics run ends here! Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse as all threads come together into one giant final confrontation! But is it good or goofy and bizarre like usual??? AND jump all the way forward to 2019 for one last ride! All that's left after this is a bunch of Ewoks!

To support the show, access the SWNCBC Legends Collection Volume 3 for free, and to access exclusive early episodes of our show extension Inside the Insider, visit us now at Patreon.com/SWOCBC!

The beginning of the end of the protoverse is here! Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse as they read through the FIRST HALF of the FINAL VOLUME of the original Marvel Comics Star Wars comic! But will it be followed by a reboot, or are they leading us straight to the Zahniverse???

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This one's not just for Nobot, but for ALL the low-res background characters out there that end up on the wiki and randomly get rabid followings for no discernable reason. Sort of. Actually, Alex, Davis and Jesse are here to answer YOUR burning questions, engage with what YOU thought of what we watched, and...go off on several long but ultimately interesting tangents! It's time for another SWOCBC Q&A!

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Everyone has a breaking point, and this week on the second half of Alex, Davis, and Jesse's look at Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3P0, them bois may or may not have found theirs. But not all is lost! There IS an all astro-mech 1980's Vegas-style harem lounge, so please, join us for another week of SWOCBC: the road to the 90's!

To support the show and listen to the Remastered SWNCBC Legends Archive completely for free, which is like 40 hours of content now including the brand-new Collection 2, head to Patreon.com/SWOCBC!

Is it weird to say that Stuart Copeland may be one of the best Star Wars composers of all time? Why is C-3P0 so caked up? How come so many things from the sequel trilogy seem to look to the Star Wars: Droids animated series for inspiration? Do Alex, Davis, and Jesse like this or hate this or both? What is anything anymore these days anyway, right? It's just this brain designed by man that's got me...in trouble again...trouble again! 

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Okay guys...something weird is going on...Alex, Davis, and Jesse...had fun? They saw this film for what it was and...enjoyed it? ...Davis has never seen Pitch Black? All this and more on yet another incredible episode of SWOCBC, where the boys discuss Ewoks: The Battle for Endor by Ken and Jim Wheat!

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Yub-NUB, you feeching beechas, it's time for the gauntlet of cuteness, a crucible of cartoonishness and camp built of bears, bots, and babies! Will Alex, Davis, and Jesse survive Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure? Will Heir to the Empire ever come? What's Joe Johnston doing in the credits? Listen and find out! (And pardon our Ewokese...)

Change is the path to the dark side. Changing the puppet leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering. Therefore, we must #RESTORETHEPUPPET...just kidding. That's very dumb. It's time for another GIANT SIZE SWOCBC Q&A, with questions and answers from viewers like YOU at Patreon.com/SWOCBC!

Adventure has a name...and it's name is Inside the Insider! Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse for more Last Crusade, including interviews with Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, and Steven Spielberg...from 1989! It's Inside the Insider Collection #3!

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The Original Marvel Years Vol. 5 comes to a close on today's SWOCBC with a CHUNKY BOY EPISODE! Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse and get your Star Wars goggles set, there's Ewoks on the horizon!

I swear you'll never have to read Return of the Jedi ever again, just come support us at Patreon.com/SWOCBC!

After a busy summer, the SWOCBC is BACK with the PENULTIMATE MARVEL SAGA, including the comic book version of Return of the Jedi! Join your star bois, Alex, Davis, and Jesse for The Original Marvel Years Vol. 5 Part 1!

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Twice the Stars! Twice the Wars! Twice the Newspaper Strips! Alex, Davis, and Jesse are back with the second half of Star Wars: The Newspaper Strips Vol. 2! Come see off this wonderful and largely forgotten sequential narrative art form!

For access to episode extensions for every single upload, "Inside the Insider", where the boys tackle the Star Wars Insider issue by issue, check out www.patreon.com/SWOCBC

Once again the SWOC-boys tackle the seemingly endless gap between Star Wars and Return of the Jedi, as they wade into the world of daily newspaper comics for a second time. Come see how Alex, Davis, and Jesse fare against this lost medium, and spare a thought for all the dead aliens!

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If you thought there was no way there could be more than one issue centered mainly around Willow and Tucker...you're wrong, baby! Come talk Star Wars, Willow, Tucker, and even some Last Crusade with Alex, Davis, and Jesse on our early-access Patreon bonus show, Inside the Insider Collection 2!

Includes SWOCBC: Inside the Insider, Issues #4-6

Catch up on all the ITI episodes you're missing by supporting us at www.patreon.com/SWOCBC!

Video games are here! Alex, Davis, and Jesse take SWOCBC to a whole new dimension of sight sound and mind with their first foray into the early Star Wars home console and arcade games from Atari and Parker Brothers! Come find out where Star Wars fits in the tapestry of video game history, and how close video games have been to the Star Wars media empire from almost the very beginning!

To watch us play the games, check out our official YouTube channel here:
www.youtube.com/@starwarsoldcanonbookclub

Or, get the unedited version that's double...

Hey, you-sa! Stop-pa dere! You-sa goin' to da Bosses! Alex, Davis, and Jesse go BIIIIIIIIG doo-doo dis time as they answer questions from listeners and weigh in on Patreon discussions you submitted at Patreon.com/SWOCBC!

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All's well that ends well as Alex, Davis, and Jesse, the SWOCBC gang, find out whether the Lando trilogy is an actual trilogy or not, and whether your opinion of something can change when the context does. Like, for example, did you know ThonBoka MEANS Starcave? More like this inside.

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The Flamewind burns brightly through the Oseon as your SWOCBC boys, Alex, Davis, and Jesse return to that old free spirit, just 27 years young, Lando Calrissian and his enlightened droid Vuffi Raa, back for another fantastic, unlikely, and hilariously unwhelming 1980's L Neil Smith space lounge hang sesh.

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Life, love, and a bizarrely specific adherence to 1980's libertarian idealism converge in a trilogy of episodes over the next five weeks, as Alex, Davis, and Jesse tackle the grooviest Star Wars ever written in L Neil Smith's Lando trilogy, and in the case of the Mindharp of Sharu, it is literally all about the vibes.

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You've read the book and now it's time for the movie! Return of the Jedi! What's a holiday without a tentpole? Alex, Davis, and Jesse, aka a time lapse of Scott Calving turning into Santa, are here to discuss the big trilogy ender and to look forward to the future! Happy Holidays!

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Have...we already hit peak Star Wars? James Kahn's novelization of Return of the Jedi was so good, Davis and Alex started yelling at each other because of how different they loved it! It's just like Thanksgiving Dinner! Will Jesse save the Macy's Day Parade? Come listen and find out!

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You heard us tackle the in-universe world of the Old Canon, but what about the fandom? Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse in this first public collection of Patreon bonus episodes of Inside the Insider, which releases an episode every time the main show does, and covers the official Star Wars fan magazine, the Star Wars Insider, one issue at a time!

Includes SWOCBC: Inside the Insider, Issues #1-3

Catch up on all the Inside the Insider we've recorded by supporting us at www.patreon.com/SWOCBC!

This is getting out of hand! There are three of them? Why, YES, Nute! Alex, Davis, and Jesse are here to answer and respond to all your deepest musings, which you sent to us so perfectly legally at Patreon.com/SWOCBC!

Star Wars for slightly more mature readers continues this week as we finish off a big chunk of comics, and we start to meet some expanded universe characters who might stick around a little longer than Alex, Davis, and Jesse expect on the second part of this week's SWOCBC!

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The boys are back with a new installment of the SWOCBC where maybe Star Wars has finally started growing up with its audience? And maybe this new creative team means a fresh new vibe? Maybe? Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse as they find out!

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How far away is too far away for it to cease being part of the galaxy far far away? Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse as they find the answer from an unexpected source: comic book legend ALAN MOORE himself, who apparently had a grand old time adding an extremely creepy metaphysical texture to the proto-legends metacanon! (official term pending) Yay! SWOCBC!

Hi there! This fun surprise is just a sample of the type of stuff we do on our Patreon, watch this along with the 4K77 cut of the original Star Wars film, or any cut, really! Grab some popcorn!

And if you want to see what we thought of The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Empire Strikes Back, and every other film we watch on the show, head over to Patreon.com/SWOCBC for more, as well as to check out our show Inside the Insider, read discussion questions, and participate in our listener Q&A's!

It finally happened! An episode so chock full of Star Wars-y goodness, we split it in two! Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse as they read the comic book version of The Empire Strikes Back, and a bunch more comic book storylines that MAYYYYBE aren't quite as big-budget as the movie?

And what do we think about the idea of a Pre-Legends Proto-Canon? Exciting, right? Come have a look!

Restructured, relaid, and recolored, join Alex, Davis, and Jesse as they tackle some of the wildest and most interesting Star Wars storytelling we've seen so far! But is this the dawn of a new era, or just another evolutionary dead end? Found out in this very episode!

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Another episode already? Is it your birthday? Yes, it is, because today, on Gasgano's Pod-Chat (a chill podcast about podracing), Alex, Davis, and Jesse answer and respond to all your burning thoughts, which you delivered to us so kindly at Patreon.com/SWOCBC!

What goes around comes around as Alex, Davis, and Jesse hitch up for one last ride around the ranch as Brian Daley gives us the last in his iconic trilogy starring everyone's favorite youngish supermarket pulp smuggler and his big space ape pal! It's Han Solo and the Lost Legacy on SWOCBC!

We're back with a big chunky boy filled with some of the most recognizable names in the Marvel stable, a cyborg bounty hunter with more self hate than Darth Vader, and, you know, three hours of good meaty book club discussion with Alex, Davis, and Jesse as they dig into Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years Vol. 2!

You've read the book, now watch the film! It's the second half of a double dose of Empire-y goodness, now with Irvin Kershner in the mix, and a movie that looks like it was made by someone with some years under their belt! But is this REALLY one of the greatest films of ALL TIME? And what does it have to say about Star Wars as a whole? Join Alex, Davis, and Jesse to find out!

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Finally, a SWOCBC first! Fan interaction! Join, Alex, Davis, and Jesse as they answer questions from our listeners and engage with some of the deeper discussions going on around some of our latest reading selections at Patreon.com/SWOCBC! And don't worry, we'll use a different joke name for these every time.

 Before the movie...there was the official novelization! Come read a Star Wars book by someone who only did it once, and find out along with the SWOCBC whether there's anything new for Alex, Davis, and Jesse to mine from the story of one of the most discussed films of all time!