I’ll talk about the whole run here, since I’ve avoided getting hung up reviewing the earlier issues
Really really bad pacing issues, some of the worst I’ve seen in comics; flashbacks and world-hopping and time jumps and huge time skips into the future, no obvious flow and I think kinda lazy exposition. Unclear connotations from a lot of the art, which is a huge shame because the art has a lot of bright moments. Tonal dissonance all over the place, inconsistent violence, and the dreaded sense that so many big important story beats here indicate a lightly reskinned telling of Star Wars without any of that highly specific, earnest and winceworthy charm that something like Star Wars has baked into its DNA.
I was able to get the whole run for cheap at a local comic shop and took the gamble. And there’s so much here that I would love to love, the premise and the style and scale, but it needed a stronger editor or a more experienced collaborator somewhere along the process.
All that said, I would give the next thing these lads get up to a try. The best thing about the model at Image is also usually the worst thing about Image at the same time, and I’m glad this team took a swing and I’m sure they learned a lot and I’m sure that this works for other people.