Marvel Releasing Chewbacca Comic Beginning in October!
First there was Darth Vader. Then came Princess Leia, Kanan, and Lando as Marvel’s single character focused comic series in their new deal to create all Star Wars comics. And now we know that the next in this line will be none other than our lovable laughing fuzzball and co-pilot of the Millenium Falcon, Chewbacca…
MTV News got the exclusive that a new limited series will launch in October from writer Gerry Duggan (“Deadpool”) and artist Phil Noto (“Black Widow”). The series will focus on Chewie’s adventures while stranded on a yet to be named planet after a crash landing.
Some plot specifics from Duggan:
Chewie is on an important mission when we first meet him. He would not use the term crash-landed, but Han would disagree. He’s obviously been marooned on this planet at least temporarily, with a loaner ship that he got from the rebellion. And their roadside service is not great, so he’s got a little bit of work to do there to get the ship back up and running.
This planet is at a crossroads. There are forces there that want — like the Empire — to strip it of its resources. And obviously [there] would be some people that would be very opposed to that, and Chewie throws in with, with the good guys. He’s gonna set aside his mission for the greater good of this planet, and this new friend.
Duggan also discussed just exactly how they plan to deal with Chewie’s dialogue. And rest assured, they will not be translating any “argghhhghghhghs” to English.
It’s one of the first things we talked about. That we were going to let Chewie be Chewie and not try and change anything that’s on the internal [dialogue], the caption boxes or anything like that.
But you know, a little bit of good news here is that Phil Noto is my collaborator on this book, and he’s gonna be able to tell the story whether or not there are any balloons or boxes at all.
Chewie is on a very important mission when we first meet him, and you’ll be able to tell that right away without hearing him speak. But script wise, what’s been very fun for me, I’ve been writing each roar and yell twice. Once for the letterer, to be printed exactly as it is on the page and then once in parentheses for the team that basically is Chewie’s whine in English.
And that’s just for internal use. That’s just so that everyone can be on the same page and know that, hey, we’re telling this story visually and anything that we do need to know… He’s got a friend on this planet, a young woman and she speaks the basic language — so we won’t be in the dark.
Duggan goes on to answer some questions about Chewie’s character as well some other items. For the full interview and some additional cover art check out the article on MTVNews HERE.
I’m looking forward to this, but I hope it isn’t set in between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back because that era is starting to feel a bit crowded to me.
I don’t think this story could fit in anywhere else, unless this is set after ROTJ.
In general, I think there could be some great stories in between V and VI. But, unlike many other gaps between films, there’s not time for any throwaway missions in that gap. There’s a specific story to be told that they would have to commit to.
It could be before IV.
Aaaargh arrgh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.
=<3 Roooooarrhhhggwahh wahh wahh =<3 wagh!!!
In “Basic” that means “great news” xD
and May the Force be with you… always
= P
How much you want to be bet that Luke and Han get their own comics now that literally everyone else does?
I think they will release a Han Solo comic series for 100%
And a LOBOT comic.
In the first issue of “Lando” Lobot had a great appearance, I can see that coming. 😀
I’m waiting for Marvel’s Nerf Herder.
And Jar Jar! Looking forward to that one!
I’d love a Jar Jar comic.
How about a watto comic LOL
Man, Disney are really milking this thing. How long until we reach over saturation point? Pure over kill.
I fear that we never get to the 9th star wars episode. 1 star wars movie pr year is way to much. I have a feeling that people will lose interest-
Yeah the biggest fanbase in the world is just gonna move on.. lol
Converting to Star Trek.
I think Hollywood’s reaching the point where big franchises are more like epic TV series than anything else. SW has lasted this long (and survived the less-than-perfect PT), it’ll keep thriving for a long time.
Boy they’re really squeezing it aren’t they.
“Buy this, buy that, and we’ll make another one of that and more of this if it sells”
Yeah I miss when Star Wars didn’t do merchandise! Oh wait..
It’s not bad to do merchandise, it’s just the amount of it. You can tell Disney is in it for the money, and the money only. They got rid of the EU just so they could make up their own to profit more money from.
I gave you a pity like.
Last time they attempted this it resulted in the infamous Star Wars Christmas Special. As much as I love everything coming out of the SW universe right now, this is one I’m gonna have to pass on.
What a wookiee!
That girl’s shirt says “trouble”…
Doesnt surprise me at all. Reminds me of Sabine in Rebels… Disney really wants to shove in alot of new female teen characters who dress like they’re from Earth. Doing grafitti, wearing t-shirts that says “TROUBLE”, etc etc. The Disneyfication has begun…
I hope they’re gonna publish this here in Italy together with the star wars issues on a single booklet as they’re doing with Star wars / princess leia and Darth Vader / Kanan ….
Hopefully Salacious Crumb will get his own comic too.
And YOU get a comic! And YOU get a comic! EVERYBODY GETS A COMIC!
That would be the best. The adventures of salacious crumb!! Ooohshahahahaha
Yes, they do seem to have thrown away the EU for their own interest.
It would have been better for them to at least maintain the characters from the EU instead of doing away with the whole canon. Many would like to see Lowbacca for instance. I mean there is even talk of doing away with the ‘Darth’ ascription. In which case, the new JJ and KK take on Star Wars may fail and end up being an opportunity missed. They could still have used characters such as Thrawn, Darth Krayt, the new Jedi students of Luke as per the EU – for it to be done away with totally in favour of anything that JJ, KK and others do is somewhat of a waste of material. This is with the realisation that about half of the EU is rubbish.
I hate how everything coming out are these little one-off adventures that seem pretty insignificant to anything else going on. Sure, this book or that one give you little bits of information or backstory we didn’t know, like Lords of the Sith did with Vader and Palpatine’s relationship, as well as the stuff with Cham, BUT it’s all small little things. Nothing major. I feel the novels and comics in the old EU often were greater in scope and did more to, well, expand the universe than anything so far in the new canon.
Also, I agree that they are cramming way too many stories into that window between IV and V. I know it was supposedly about 2 or 3 years, but with all these side stories, plus some ongoing comics all taking place in that time, they’re going to fill that window very quickly. I’m really looking forward to the stuff that will take place post-Jedi, which is now a totally unexplored landscape until Episode VII comes out.
And while I don’t think there is any danger, really, of turning off Star Wars’ hardcore fans, like us, with oversaturation, I do think that more casual fans may soon be saying, “enough Star Wars!”
I’ve always been curious as to what Chewie did with his time while Luke and Leia worked out the escape plan, I expect Luke kind of just awkwardly asked Chewie to “hang tight until it was escape-time”,
This story would make sense in Chewie’s inter-Han Solo biding of time.
Well Chewbacca got a moon upon his head during his spare time…..poor choice because he ended up DEAD DEAD DEAD
DEAD DEAD DEAD……STAY DEAD UNLESS YOU CAN LIFT THE MOON OFF YOUR HEAD CHEWBACCA….BY THE WAY THIS IS A GOOD IDEA THROW A MOON TO EVIL MOUSES HEAD …HE WILL REMAIN SURELY DEAD.