Star Wars: Han Solo - Hunt For The Falcon

by Rodney Barnes, Ramon Rosanas (Illustrator)

In the time before The Force Awakens, where is the Millennium Falcon?!

Less than satisfied with a settled life, Han Solo lands on the idea of reclaiming the Falcon and returning to a life of adventure. The problem is, he can’t find it! After enlisting a less than enthusiastic Chewbacca, the duo embarks upon a quest to reclaim the greatest ship in the galaxy. Standing in their way are a laundry list of rogues who have staked a claim to the Millennium Falcon as well — like Ducain, the villainous scoundrel who stole it!

COLLECTING: Star Wars: Hunt for the Falcon (2025) #1-5

Genres: Star Wars, Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Fiction, Marvel

120 pages, Paperback

Published April 28, 2026

About the author

Rodney L Barnes has had the privilege to accomplish so much in a short time on Earth. At the age of forty-two and surviving a major traumatic brain injury, writing and publishing the book, My Miracle outlines and talks about experiences he had undergone that might contribute to the events in your life. From past to present, he had learned how to accept what life has to offer, not struggle with life. He was raised on the principles of ordinary life, take nothing for granted! Rodney now clearly understands those principles of living because of his development. Through events of his life, the accident, coma, and relearning life at twenty-one years of age, he has to give all these accomplishments to the Lord Jesus Christ. Rodney is praying for his book to get into the hands of people who need a source of comfort, strength, or knowledge to learn more how strong and powerful Jesus Christ is and can be. Visit him at Facebook.com/mymiraclethemovie and together, we all can help each other understand the meaning of life.

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still partial to Legends New Republic over canon, but this is not as bad as the Goodreads rating makes it look.

[Teresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

31-34 ABY

This graphic novel collects issues1-5 of "Hunt for the Falcon". The story follows an older Han Solo in the Age of Resistance as he aims to recover the stolen Millennium Falcon. If you have seen The Force Awakens, then you know how the story will ultimately end, though this is an adventure before that sequence of events begins. Within, there are some flashbacks to Han and his experience as a father and husband, filling in some of the gaps fans would like to see. It otherwise has Han reaching out to old allies and working through the various thugs that have sent the Falcon through their fingers.

I Like the art in this one and find that it flows well and sets a nice dynamic for the given action. The flashbacks offer some nice insight into a younger Ben and his relationship with Han before things deviate for the worst. We need more when it comes to that transition between the New Republic and the Age of the Resistance. I know there is more coming, but this scratches that between itch for now.

[Erick M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

¡Una crisis de mediana edad nunca había abarcado tanto de la galaxia!

Tenía cierta curiosidad de ver a Han antes de Ep 7 y realmente me gustó los aspectos que establecen. Me agrada que Han no se alejara de Leia para volver a "la mala vida" (como inicialmente creí al ver la película) y que se muestre que vivía relativamente "tranquilo", antes de comenzar la caza del Halcón. Hace sentir todo menos trágico y más natural.

Hablando de Han, me gusta el acercamiento que se hace a su personaje. Ahora inundado de nostalgia y remordimiento, no puede evitar regresar sobre sus pasos al pasado, desesperado por recuperar aquello que perdió. En algunos sentidos, su viaje me recordó al de su hijo: justificar malas decisiones buscando algo intangible en lo tangible. Dicho eso, me gusta como el comic también acentúa que el Halcón fue alguna vez lo único que llamó hogar, una constante dentro de un mar de cambios, haciéndo empatizar con su deseo de volver a verla.

También me gustó ver a Chewie a su lado. Sirve como recordatorio constante del presente que pone en riesgo y que necesita apreciar más. Y hablando del presente, los aspectos del bajo mundo en la galaxia fueron divertidos de ver; Ducain me pareció un villano bastante decente, junto a Unkar, cumpliendo al darle emoción a esta "busqueda del tesoro".

Habiendo dicho eso, sí puedo ver un problema con la conclusión de la historia. No sé acerca tanto a Episodio 7 como lo parecía, decidiendo dejar un espacio que, aunque narrativamente satisfactorio, al mostrar que Han se da cuenta que está lastimando a sus seres queridos, eligiendo desistir de su cacería, vuelve toda la búsqueda ligeramente redundante (y ni hablar de la preguntas que genera que él ya supiera dónde estaba el Halcón y, a la vez, no lo sepa en la película). Tal vez una manera de acabar la historia con una nota más positiva.

En conclusión, una lectura entretenida de Han y Chewie. En mi headcanon, los corellianos desarrollan más rápido demencia senil y por eso Han no se acuerda de algunas cosas.

[John Parungao · Rating 3 out of 5]

Anyone who watched The Force Awakens saw the older Han Solo and his trusty right hand Chewbacca finally reclaim the Millennium Falcon. That's the end of the story.
What is featured in this comic book tale is the beginning of Han's quest to get the Falcon back. Occurring sometime before the events of The Force Awakens we find the older, but not necessarily wiser Han Solo. A man who is restless and unhappy with the peaceful life. Han still takes risks and wants to have excitement and risks in his life. The prime example of this is the race that Han participates in at the start of the story. Han wins the race and makes everyone else in the race look bad. His friend Lando Calrissian tries to get Han to enjoy the easy life, but Han knows something is missing and so goes on his quest to locate the missing Falcon and get in touch with the man he used to be, eventually getting Chewbacca involved.

What follows is a series of misadventures, gunfights and chases that eventually lead to the current location of the Falcon: Jakku. Things don't go as planned and Han and Chewie are forced to return home without the Falcon, but Han promises that his quest is not over.
Along the way through various flashbacks we see Han Solo in his prime at the helm of the Falcon beating impossible odds and saving the day. We also see Han and his failings as a father to his son Ben.
Originally released as a five issue mini series, this collected paperback edition gives readers an exciting story full of adventure and drama; along with a few double crosses. This was definitely something that I enjoyed reading.

[Connor Stompanato · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've been buying this series as single issues as they came out but since it was only a five issue limited series, I decided to wait until I had them all to read. Sadly, 'Hunt for the Falcon' ended up not being the most exciting 'Star Wars' series that I have read. Every scene felt rushed and we never got any time to truly sit in a moment, whether it was full of action or emotional reflection. It was always on to the next one as soon as possible.

The comics excel when they focus on why Han is away from his family, how he doesn't feel like himself when he isn't in space going on adventures and how he has isolated himself from Leia and Ben. The flashbacks were wonderful, I'm always looking for anything to fill in gaps in Ben Solo's early life, and were definitely a highlight for me. However, the actual adventure with Han and Chewie looking for the Falcon just wasn't that interesting. We know they aren't going to find it because of the events of 'The Force Awakens' and we know there are no real stakes.

You can find all of my 'Star Wars' book and comic reviews here.

[Jordan Anderson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Am I surprised that this wasn’t great? No. Not at all. For the last 7 or 8 years (barring one or 2 rare examples), Star Wars comics have set the bar extremely low in terms of story and quality both. “Hunt for the Falcon” is no different. It’s an incredibly pedestrian plot that involves old Han trying to find his beloved ship, dragging Chewie along, and discovering somewhere along the way that he’s been neglectful as a spouse and a father. Somehow none of that feels emotional and Rodney Barnes is basically phoning it in…which is pretty much par the course these days with Disney’s Star Wars comics. And like many of these comics, there’s no connection to any previously established lore because Barnes somehow manages to retcon events of the Force Awakens which proves that either there’s no quality control in the comics division or that nobody at Disney even cares anymore. I’d there’s any saving grace here it’s that at least they got the same artist to illustrate all 5 issues. In this day and age of lack of consistency, that’s a shock. But really, you can totally skip this one. You won’t miss a single thing.

[Filippo · Rating 1 out of 5]

When this was first announced, I was somewhat interested to see a question raised by The Force Awakens almost 11 years ago finally get answered (though this is something they should've done in like 2018 when Solo came out). The comic does not do that though, which would be fine if the story it told was good; plenty of stories subvert expectations of the audience in compelling and interesting ways. This, however, is not good. It's honestly really bad. This 5 issue miniseries does not have enough pages or time to properly flesh out the story it's trying to tell, leaving the entire thing completely undercooked. If this was a novel, where the author is given breathing room to actually flesh out what's happening, it'd probably be pretty good. What we have here, however, is a paper thin story that doesn't even answer how Han and Chewbacca ended up where they were in The Force Awakens, a question that will likely never be properly answered. At this point I'd much rather have the answer be left to our imagination.

[Jackson · Rating 2 out of 5]

While I appreciated some of the characterization of Han here, and I liked the dialogue between him and Chewbacca, as well as him and Lando, ultimately this comic never did enough to justify its existence. My thinking was that this was going to end with Han and Chewie finding Rey and Finn in the Force Awakens. That is not what happens. Instead, we get another story about Han and Chewie looking for the Falcon (that repeats elements from the "Flight of the Falcon" publishing initiative form a few years ago) that ends in failure. Han has them go home and return to their families, but we know that they are just going to leave again in the near future to get to where they are in TFA. It is all around an odd choice.

The art was enjoyable.

[Christopher Lutz · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 Disappointing. Not how I imagined this story would go at all. In fact I’d say it’s too beholden to characters and locations from The Force Awakens in a way that contradicts what’s actually said in the movie. Here, Han gets within a hair’s breadth of the Falcon on Jakku, where in the movie he’s clearly shocked his ship is on a junkyard planet. He also meets Unkar Plutt and the Irving Boys on his search when it seems in the movie he wasn’t aware they had control of the Falcon at all.

It’s just a weird interpretation of this backstory that does no favors for the character of Han Solo. He’s pretty unlikeable and at odds with everyone including Chewbacca which rubbed me the wrong way.

[Dakota Morgan · Rating 1 out of 5]

I get that The Force Awakens revealed the older Han Solo to be a grumpy loser who returned to his smuggling roots after getting restless at home, but Hunt for the Falcon leans into that idea a bit too much. Han Solo (cocky, street-smart, charming) is replaced by Old Man Han (dumb, sad, dull) in this book, making for an absolutely tedious read.

It doesn't help that the "hunt" aspect of the book means we basically go from point A to point B, point B to point C, and point C to point D, with nary a surprise at any location. Various Star Wars friends and foes are met and discarded. Han remains unlikable. The art is adequate.

Completionists and masochists only.

[Adam Fisher · Rating 4 out of 5]

An entertaining story that had way more heart and depth than I thought it would! This covers Han trying to sort his life out by getting back the Falcon. Taking place during the Resistance Era, its a story that was hinted at in the movies, but doesn't fully lead up to where he gets it back from Rey. Instead, we see a slightly broken Han who has to apologize to Chewie from taking him away from his family, and is going through a bit of an identity crisis, balancing his need to be a free spirit and going back to being a family man with Leia and Ben.
Would love to see part 2 of this, going from the end of this to the start of Force Awakens.
Recommend.

[Raul Fernandez · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ugh, I hate writing negative reviews, but this really is not worth your time. I say that as a staunch supporter of the Disney Era of Star Wars. In fact, unless you have to read everything, avoid one. It contradicts something we see in The Force Awakens. I won't mention it, so as to avoid spoilers in this review, but it totally ruined this mini-series for me. You do get a little insight into Han's relationship with Leia and Ben at this point in the timeline, but nothing you couldn't have already deduced from the films.

My rating: 2 Stars

[Jason · Rating 2 out of 5]

2
It'd be great if they hired creators who actually liked and understood the characters. But since we're basically just trashing Star Wars characters now anyway, might as well continue the trend.

Han is now a lost soul who with basically no redeeming qualities. He just drifts from thing to thing aimlessly, reminisces about the past, regrets his life choices, and is just generally innefectual. Nothing was accomplished in this story. Another L for Han on the road to him being impaled by his son.

[Donavon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really enjoyed flashback scenes with young Ben.

I feel the Disney/Marvel Star Wars books are not as strict with cannon as they should be.

From Force Awakens: Han surprised - "Jakku?!? The Junkyard! I knew we should have double-checked the western reaches."

This implies he knows nothing of Falcon's whereabouts. He is then informed of its recent lineage from Rey. "I stole it from Unkar Plutt. He stole it from Irving Boys, who stole it from Ducain."

This book took that conversation, stretching it out 4 issues and contradicting what Han should and should not know.

[Martijn Van · Rating 2 out of 5]

LUMPY!!!

Pretty mediocre. It’s nice that they show Han battling with a midlife crisis, doubting his life as a family man and the life he once had as a scoundrel. So it’s a bit of a pity that this idea isn’t really fleshed out, and the whole “hunt for the Falcon” thing on which this comic tries to sell itself feels tacked onto a story that deserved far more time and care to be told.

LUMPY!!!!

P.S. Is it me, or does this new TPB spine design look cheap?

[Alyce Caswell · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is very easy to allow one's dislike of certain aspects of the Disney canon to colour one's opinion of a story set in said canon. I still don't agree with some choices made around Han Solo as character, but this comic does a good job of making that characterisation consistent within the Disney media. I would highly suggest reading "Flight of the Falcon" beforehand, which I was lucky enough to do by accident. So... I guess I would say this is an okay story.

[Steven Mathew · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this. Good solid reliable art style, and fills in some of the gaps from when Han lost the Falcon and when Rey gets it. It doesn’t fully catch you up, but the best thing this does is tell you a story of how Han deals with some of his family stories, while writing him wonderfully well. Every line he says I can hear as if it’s straight out of the movie. Worth it. Read it! Especially if you liked empire strikes back and or force awakens:)

[Travis Whaley · Rating 1 out of 5]

What are we even doing? We did not need a 5 issue mini for Han to be in the same place at the end that he was in the beginning. Because, spoiler, he doesn’t find the Falcon until episode 7.

Can Marvel please make some good Star Wars comics this year?

[Robert · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's...maudlin. Not what one want's in a comic.

[Sebastian · Rating 1 out of 5]

They turned him into an old man who is constantly whining about all sorts of things—which Han never was!

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

Perfectly generic adventure for Han and Chewie to see the Galaxy for a few minutes. It's very safe and doesn't take any risks but it's not unpleasant.

[Sam Nicholson · Rating 3 out of 5]

7/10

[Al Halpain · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great tie-in to The Force Awakens!