Chewbacca , Part II Chewbacca , Part II is the second of five issues of the Marvel comic book miniseries " " . It was published on October 28 , 2015 . Publisher ' s summary . Known as the skilled co - pilot of the infamous " Millennium Falcon " , the legendary Wookiee warrior CHEWBACCA will star in his very own limited comic series ! After the battle of Yavin , Chewbacca is on his own when he crash lands his ship on an Imperial occupied planet . Now stranded , Chewie finds himself caught in the middle of trying to return to the rebellion and helping a young and feisty girl in need . Writer Gerry Duggan ( DEADPOOL , 1872 , HULK ) and artist Phil Noto ( BLACK WIDOW , X - 23 , UNCANNY X - FORCE ) bring us a never - before - seen tale of the heroic Wookiee we all know and love . Plot summary . The following day , Zarro and Chewbacca approach the entrance to Jaum ' s mine . After Chewie scouts the perimeter with his macrobinoculars , Zarro shows him the air vents . She proposes sneaking down with the hoist line so that the indentured laborers can all climb out tonight without risking a fight . However , the Andelm beetle lava sometimes collapse the air shafts so they have to find a stable one . Chewie is wary of getting stuck but Zarro tells her that her plan is to allow herself to get captured . To keep in contact , Zarro has borrowed Chewbacca ' s transmitter , which is fitted with a homing beacon . As planned , Zarro is captured by Jaum ' s guards . As punishment , Jaum orders that her shifts be doubled and that her rations be halved . She finds her father Arrax and her friend Dek and tells them that she has a plan to escape . Zarro uses a shovel to begin digging through a hollowed - out section of the mine . Chewie is able to monitor her movements with another transmitter . While tunneling through an air vent , Chewie has flashbacks of his and his people ' s enslavement at the hands of Trandoshan slavers . Chewie ' s work is interrupted when he hears that Zarro has been captured by Jaum ' s men . Arrax pleads for his daughter ' s life but Jaum is unconcerned . Addressing the forced laborers , he tells them that their dealings are reaching an end . Jaum reveals that he has sold the entire Andelm beetle operation including his slaves to the Galactic Empire . The Empire is interested in the Andelm beetles , which contain an abundance of rare organics used in the manufacturing of blaster s . He intends to replace his indentured work force with droid s . When one of the slave labourers tries to attack Jaum with a shovel , Jaum shoots him dead with his blaster pistol . Sensing labor problems on the horizon , Jaum orders his guards to execute the laborers . Before the guards can execute their captives , Chewbacca appears behind them and overpowers them . He even kills one with his Bowcaster . After introducing her friend Chewbacca to her father and the other miners , Arrax tells the miners that they have to fight their way out . Using a broken - down GNK - series power droid , Chewie is able to fashion an improvised rod . He uses the rod to disabled a wheeled battle droid . Meanwhile , Jaum learns about the miners ' " hairy demon " from one of his guards , who is addicted to spice . Having other plans , Jaum executes the guard with his blaster pistol . While finishing off the battle droid , Chewie is confronted by another guard who challenges him to a blaster fighter . However , the Wookiee knocks him out with the dead GNK power droid . Arrax and Zarro pass Chewie ' s bowcaster back to the Wookiee and he searches for a way out . Upon entering the loading bay , the Wookiee discovers that Jaum has fled but left behind crates of Andelm beetle larvae . Outside , Jaum ' s Shistavanen bodyguard Tyvak fires a blaster bolt at the crates . They intend to blow up the volatile larve and kill the rebellious miners and the Wookiee . The Shistavanen quotes an old saying about Wookiees : " Never let a Wookiee live . Thy bring ill fortune . Kill them wheneverrr [ sic ] you can . "