
Star Wars: Chewbacca
Reviews

The premise of this comic is that R2 and 3PO are going around interviewing everyone who had been close to/knew Chewie and putting together a memorial for him. So each story is reflecting on who Chewie was, the values that were important to him, how he interacted with the people around him, etc. Which is a great concept. But it was executed so very poorly. First off, the choice of who's telling these stories? Leaves something to be desired. None of the Solo kids contribute, but some random slaver named Ssoh does? Mala Mala has a story but neither Chewie's son nor his nephew do? I would have wanted to see more from characters who knew and loved Chewie, rather than random guys off the street. And even when there are characters close to Chewie, like Luke and Leia, their story SUCKS. The idea that Leia would be so jealous of Chewie as to secretly wish he was dead/gone at some points is so ludicrous as to make my head explode. I was kind of okay with the series up to that point, not least because there was still time to include the characters I wanted to see, but that story just tanked everything else for me. I wanted to like this so much but it was just so very very awful.