TWO AGAINST ONE! With precious cargo and a price on his head, VALANCE must go to the only person in the galaxy he can trust. But the UNBROKEN CLAN has sent a deadly and unique pair of bounty hunters after him! No one in the galaxy can escape the combined cunning of 4-LOM and ZUCKUSS!!!
Ethan Sacks is a writer and journalist from New York, who is currently writing the ongoing series Star Wars- Bounty Hunters for Marvel as well as other various Star Wars titles. He is also know for his Marvel works that take place in the iconic Old Man Logan wasteland, Old Man Hawkeye and Old Man Quill.
Valance is now the target of the bounty. He made a promise to his mentor Lash but he might need repairs. The trouble is trouble always follows Valance and his "friends" usually pay the price. A bit of back story as well.
A definite improvement over the last issue, but then the only way was up after that.
I still don't care about Valance, though. He's a deeply uninteresting character who doesn't really feel like he belongs in Star Wars. He looks like a character for a 1970s comic that was kinda inspired by Star Wars, before it had really been established what Star Wars really IS. Because, well, that's exactly what he is. We're given some more backstory for him here, in which we discover that he left a girl behind when he left his home world to join the Empire...and, crikey, this is derivative. But, then, so's Valance.
There's some good stuff in here though, because Zuckuss and 4-LOM are in it, and they're cool. Although it did bother me that Zuckuss call's 4-Lom, "For-Elloem" becuase I've always pronounced it "Four-Lom"...but maybe I've been wrong all these years. It wouldn't be the first time.
I've been pretty down about this series thus far. The previous issue was a bit of an improvement, and this one was another step up. It continues to include more human moments for Valance, and it had an excellent use of Zuckuss and 4-LOM, who are well-illustrated. With the latter, it feels like there's more stylizing to make him look more like an insect, but I dig it.