Han Solo’s new Marvel comic answers one of Star Wars’ great mysteries

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I find myself appreciating Solo: A Star Wars more with each passing year. Despite a turbulent production, which saw Ron Howard (Willow) stepping in for Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (21 Jump Street) partway through filming, the Star Wars adventure movie made it theaters with a lot of the “right stuff.” The casting of Alden Ehrenreich as Solo, Emilia Clarke as his lost-love-turned-adversary Qi’ra, and Donald Glover as pansexual Lando was top-notch, the set pieces were light on their feet, and the way the movie expanded on mythology felt like a Star Wars prequel done right (minus the whole Solo name origin part). Overly shadowy cinematography makes the movie look muddy, and the script doesn’t indulge in the amount of charisma the cast has to offer, but I am now in the “Solo is totally rewatchable” camp.

And when Marvel’s Star Wars comics brush against the events of Solo, I tend to perk up. I dug Charles Soule’s recent War of the Bounty Hunters crossover saga, which found a way to bring Qi’ra back into the fold. Soule’s current book, Crimson Reign, continues to fill in details on the vivid antihero; she’s currently plotting to take down the Empire, though we know how that inevitably goes. Lucasfilm’s pro-Solo stance had me excited to check out Marc Guggenheim and David Messina’s new bookHan Solo & Chewbacca, which kicks off on Wednesday with the duo running a heist and acting in rogue mode. Just based on the first issue, Guggenheim and Messina’s series might be the Solo sequel we’ll never get — complete with prequel details we may not actually need.

The opening pages of Han Solo & Chewbacca do what every Star Wars story really should do: Drop fans into a Star Wars action sequence and introduce a few new characters. With