Star Wars: Rebel Heist #1 Preview: Matt Kindt Takes a Hard Look at Han Solo

Following on the heels of the news that his buddy Chewbacca will be back for Star Wars Episode VII, Han Solo's next comic book adventure gets a preview from Dark Horse Comics today as the first art pages have been released for Star Wars: Rebel Heist #1. The story, which will revolve around Han Solo, will kick off at the end of the month as a four-issue miniseries illustrated by Star Wars comic veteran Marco Castiello. The premise is that each issue will revolve around one of the central characters from the original Star Wars trilogy and will give fans a view into how the regular folk of the Star Wars universe view the characters that moviegoers and comic book fans have come to know and love over the decades. "So that was the springboard. It would be cool to have four core characters, and each issue would play with that idea," Kindt explained the story back when it was first announced. "Princess Leia and a spy character who she teams up with, but it's all from the point of view of the character Princess Leia teams up with. Viewing Princess Leia, viewing Han Solo, viewing Chewbacca, viewing Luke through the guise of a normal dude. Han Solo is like the coolest character ever, so it was fun to write that, where this guy's sort of starstruck by him — just like I would be. Then they've got this mission to do, and doing a real mission where everything's on the line, and your life is in danger — by the end of that issue, Han Solo's not so cool anymore. This guy's scared out of his mind. Han Solo's kind of reckless. That was my way in, almost viewing those characters in a childlike way, like I did when I was a kid, and you look up to Han Solo as the coolest. It was easy to write after that."

Check out the solicitation text and preview pages below.STAR WARS: REBEL HEIST #1

STORY BY: Matt Kindt ART BY: Marco Castiello, Dan Parsons COLORS BY: Gabe Eltaeb COVER BY: Adam Hughes, Matt Kindt PUBLISHER: Dark Horse Comics COVER PRICE: $3.50 RELEASE DATE: Wed, April 30th, 2014 A young Rebel meets one of the Alliance's best for his first mission. But the young man's hero worship is crushed by the reality of Han Solo. A botched escape, a ship that doesn't work—could it be that Solo is just a lucky bumbler whose luck has run out?