Marvel Star Wars Explorers

Brian Rudloff and Sam Stovold
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Your two best friends, Sam and Brian, previously explored every issue of the original run of Marvel's Star Wars comics and newspaper strips, and are now exploring a variety of other Star Wars comics from the seventies, eighties, and beyond!

  1. The Dark Crystal 1: Creation Myths (with Jake Beal)

    12/18/2025

    The Dark Crystal 1: Creation Myths (with Jake Beal)

    As a mysterious hooded traveler sits us down to explain the origins of Thra, we find ourselves joined by Jake Beal, who helps us usher in Phase 8 of the podcast! We catch up on Star Visions season 3 and some recent Star Wars comics and chat about our personal histories with The Dark Crystal, before diving into our new adventure and the strange, wonderful, and terrible world of Gelflings, Skeksis, Aughra, Raunip, and Gyr!

    2h 2m
  2. The Rise of Skywalker Marvel Adaptation (with Barm and Sean Davis)

    10/01/2025

    The Rise of Skywalker Marvel Adaptation (with Barm and Sean Davis)

    As Palpatine somehow returns, so too do the Marvel Star Wars Explorers, to cover the 2025 comic adaptation of the 2019 film, The Rise of Skywalker! And they've reunited the gang from the Last Jedi comic adaptation episode to weigh in! But before they get into the First Order Captain's Medallions, Sith daggers, and Han Solo ghosts of it all, they're catching up on some hot new Star News, including the latest LEGO Star Wars adventure, some other recent Star Wars comic reads, and the hot new trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu. Will Marvel find ways to improve upon this famously maligned film, or will it leave us cold as the waters of Kef Bir? Tune in!

    3h 23m
  3. Thrawn: Alliances (with Kregg Castillo)

    08/07/2025

    Thrawn: Alliances (with Kregg Castillo)

    Indiana Jones' further adventures may have stopped (for now), but Brian and Sam are still at it! And they've brought along a Star Friend from A Long Time Ago, Kregg Castillo, to dive into a Thrawn storyline published over a year and a half ago! In addition to our bafflement regarding the insane way Marvel has chosen to present this storyline, Sam is also having his R5-D4 dreams crushed, Brian is reminiscing on his recent travels abroad, and the whole gang is finally taking a trip to the Underworld.

    1h 50m
  4. Indy 22 - The Further Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (with Jack Stovold)

    07/04/2025

    Indy 22 - The Further Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (with Jack Stovold)

    As Sam and Brian mop up the last scraps of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Jack returns to the podcast to offer some final thoughts on our Bud-Arc adventure. We're also getting stumped by Star Wars Dad Jokes, talking about some Indy adventures that could've been, and handing out our Indy Awards!

    2h 58m
  5. Indy 21 - Double Play! (with Eric Ambler)

    06/05/2025

    Indy 21 - Double Play! (with Eric Ambler)

    As Indy does battle with a sorcerer in the Scottish isles, Eric Ambler returns to the podcast for a triple play of an episode! That means discussion about the finales of Andor, Young Indy, AND The Further Adventures! Plus, Sam shares some recent Sky News, we get some more Ditko talk in, and the gang marvels at the Final Reckoning of it all.

    2h 56m
  6. Indy 20 - Big Game (with Jake Beal)

    05/13/2025

    Indy 20 - Big Game (with Jake Beal)

    As Indy finds himself dragged into a hunt for none other than Bigfoot himself, we find ourselves once again joined by Jake Beal, to discuss the unsettling parallels between the world depicted in Andor and our own, to enjoy the simple pleasures of corny German accents and aerial dogfights with Young Indy, and to ponder what exactly a "Baron of the Northwest" is.

    2h 7m
  7. Indy 19 - Shot by Both Sides (with David Robertson)

    05/05/2025

    Indy 19 - Shot by Both Sides (with David Robertson)

    As Indy finds himself on the trail of a misplaced Chinese mummy, we finds ourselves once again joined by David Robertson, who is more than happy to offer up some fresh takes on Andor, plus Sam describes novel additions to his recent rewatch experience, we discuss the inherent humor in water-proof pouches of dynamite, and we all marvel at some surprisingly Indiana Jones-like Chronicles in the South Pacific.

    2h 20m
  8. Indy 18 - Tower of Tears (with Richard Dunham)

    04/30/2025

    Indy 18 - Tower of Tears (with Richard Dunham)

    As Indy travels to Iran to investigate a tower or something, Sam's life falls apart as he struggles to pull together a broken episode. Plus, oh my god, Andor! Celebration! Richard Dunham!

    2h 31m
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Your two best friends, Sam and Brian, previously explored every issue of the original run of Marvel's Star Wars comics and newspaper strips, and are now exploring a variety of other Star Wars comics from the seventies, eighties, and beyond!

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