Chewbacca is also regarded by the other characters as the more trustworty of the two, with Han being thought of as much less reliable. But at least in this version of events, he was duly recognized for his contribution to the rebel victory. He regards it as little more than an oddity. WEEKLY story in which Leia stands on a table to put the medal around his neck.Ĭhewbacca isn't too concerned with getting a medal in Smuggler’s Run. Shows Chewie without a medal and inset is an image from a color reprint of the STAR WARS
Later in "The Day After the Death Star", a story Archie Goodwin wrote for Marvel's STAR WARS WEEKLY comic, Goodwin stated that Leia did put a medal on Chewie, but had to stand on a table to put in on him.Ībove shown are Marvel's answers to the medal controversy: In the background the adaptation Roy Thomas' adaptation of the film is visually consistent with the movie, showing Chewie looking annoyed while Han and Luke are honored with medals, but the text explains that Chewie will also get a medal that he will have to put on himself. The original Marvel Comics were torn on the issue of Chewie's medal. They just don't consider them to be fashionable. You see, it's not that Wookiees find medals ethically distasteful. This answers the question once and for all, validating earlier sources like Alan Dean Foster’s novelization and the associated comics adaptation while dispelling the retcon offered up by the Bantha Tracks newsletter, which explained that Chewbacca declined to receive a medal because Wookiees find such things distasteful. I feel the urge to make a joke about the Oscars just now.īut Chewie gets a medal, and we will learn in the Chewbacca comic that he gives it away to a young girl after having his own solo adventure shortly following this one. And you can’t argue that they just put the ceremony together really quick before hastily packing up and getting out of there, because someone had time to design and create Olympic gold medals to give the honorees (two of them, at least). What the hell were they doing forging gold medals and having a massive formal ceremony in the secret rebel base that had just been exposed to the Empire? Did they think the Death Star was the only weapon the Empire had? If the Imperial fleet (which should have been in communication with Darth Vader) had attacked the Massasi temple while they were all patting themselves on the back for blowing up the Death Star, the entire Rebel Alliance would have been destroyed. Which makes sense when you think about it. Chewie has a medal, so apparently the rebels only had time to make two medals before the ceremony at the end of EPISODE IV and shipped Chewbacca’s medal to him sometime later. Right away, Smuggler’s Run answers questions in the new canon that were never satisfactorily addressed before. Rucka’s book does not follow that convention, crediting both characters in the title and, more importantly, featuring both of them with equal prominence in the story.
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Daley said in an interview that he preferred to think of his books as the Solo and Company series rather than the Han Solo series, but for marketing purposes, Han’s name just looks better on a book cover. The second Han Solo trilogy of novels, written by A.C. Brian Daley’s Han Solo trilogy, most notably, did not credit Chewbacca in the titles, even though the stories involve Chewie as much as Han.
Previous Solo stories were not solo stories per se, but always exclusively billed Han. It is credited both to Han Solo and Chewbacca. There a couple of bits I love about this book right from the start, beginning with the subtitle. Smuggler’s Run runs mostly parallel to the timeline of The Weapon of a Jedi, following the adventures of Han Solo and Chewbacca immediately after the destruction of the first Death Star. They’re short, which gives you even less of an excuse not to check them out. The main difference between these and a book not written for young readers is length. That said, they don’t feel exclusive to that audience. Several other books have been produced as part of that campaign, but unlike Chuck Wendig’s Aftermath, Smuggler's Run and its companion works were all written specifically to target younger readers.
Along with a similar adventure starring Princess Leia, these books were all produced as part of Disney’s JOURNEY TO STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS marketing campaign. This book is in the same series as The Weapon of a Jedi by Jason Fry and Before the Awakening, which was also written by Greg Rucka.