Happy Life Day, Everywookiee! Today is November 17! On this day in 1978, the much maligned Star Wars Holiday Special was released for its first and only broadcast! It featured a Wookiee celebration of the solstice holiday, Life Day! It also featured the first appearance of Chewbacca’s home planet, Kashyyyk! Marvel and Starwars.com released a preview of next week’s Life Day #1 from Marvel. Ignoring my pet peeve that this issue is releasing on November 24 and not November 17, I still enjoyed the preview!
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Life Day #1 will be an oversized anthology of stories from different eras including the Sequel Era, Original Trilogy, and High Republic! The preview below is a little disjointed as it jumps around those eras. However, in it, we get our first glimpse at Burryaga Agaburry’s first full comics appearance!
The Wookiee Jedi from the High Republic eta, Burryaga, made his first comic book cameo, unnamed, without dialogue, in High Republic #1. He made a second unnamed cameo without dialogue in High Republic #9.
The preview also features Chewbacca’s father, Attichitcuk. Attichitcuk made his first cameo in Star Wars #91 (1977), and made his first full appearance in Chewbacca #1 (Dark Horse 2000).
Finally there are mentions of Chewbacca’s mate Mallatobuck and his son Lumpawaroo. Both first appeared in in Star Wars #91 (1977). Chewie’s romantic courtship to Mallatobuck is told in Chewbacca #1 (Dark Horse 2000).
This is the first canon comic mention of Mallatobuck and Lumpawaroo and first canon comic appearance of Mallatobuck.
