Journey To Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Allegiance #4 Review
Writer: Ethan Sacks
Artist: Luke Ross
Letterer: Clayton Cowles
Publisher: Marvel
This week, the Allegiance miniseries comes to a close. Leia, Rey, and Rose must unite Mon Cala before the First Order can stop them. Meanwhile, Finn and Poe attempt to make their final escape from the Moon of Avedot and the bounty hunters trying to capture them.
This series never really picked back up for me after the first issue. It was still good, but it was just good and it didn't reach the heights that other works in the Journey To line reached for me. The Mon Cala story felt very rushed and small scale. I wish it had gotten a lot more fleshing about and character development so I cared more about the characters beside the film cast. For example, King Ech-Char seems to be a child of Lee-Char and has inherited a genetic disease, but this series had no time to do anything more than imply that. It would have been nice if, for example, he could have had a full dialogue scene with Leia that just developed him.
Meanwhile the Finn and Poe plot felt, ironically, too stretched out and uninteresting conceptually. It felt like it was there because they didn't want the whole cast together and they thought giving Poe and Finn their own buddy cop story was enough to justify that whole plot. I would have preferred Finn and Poe to just be a part of the Mon Cala mission. It would have let the series set its undivided attention on its primary purpose, Mon Cala. Even as the plot is, I don't think Finn got done justice as far as character development.
It's still overall a decent miniseries, it just didn't feel fully baked, which is a bit of a bummer for me because I was really excited by the concept when it was first announced, and I did mostly enjoy the first issue. The art, despite a rough moment here or there, was up to par. It's a bit of a sobering moment to realize that this is probably our last Journey To miniseries for at least three years, if we ever even get another one in the same way as these last three. I hope Marvel at least keeps doing series set in this era, and maybe I would enjoy something from this creative team more if it was done through a longer miniseries.
Artist: Luke Ross
Letterer: Clayton Cowles
Publisher: Marvel
This week, the Allegiance miniseries comes to a close. Leia, Rey, and Rose must unite Mon Cala before the First Order can stop them. Meanwhile, Finn and Poe attempt to make their final escape from the Moon of Avedot and the bounty hunters trying to capture them.
This series never really picked back up for me after the first issue. It was still good, but it was just good and it didn't reach the heights that other works in the Journey To line reached for me. The Mon Cala story felt very rushed and small scale. I wish it had gotten a lot more fleshing about and character development so I cared more about the characters beside the film cast. For example, King Ech-Char seems to be a child of Lee-Char and has inherited a genetic disease, but this series had no time to do anything more than imply that. It would have been nice if, for example, he could have had a full dialogue scene with Leia that just developed him.
Meanwhile the Finn and Poe plot felt, ironically, too stretched out and uninteresting conceptually. It felt like it was there because they didn't want the whole cast together and they thought giving Poe and Finn their own buddy cop story was enough to justify that whole plot. I would have preferred Finn and Poe to just be a part of the Mon Cala mission. It would have let the series set its undivided attention on its primary purpose, Mon Cala. Even as the plot is, I don't think Finn got done justice as far as character development.
It's still overall a decent miniseries, it just didn't feel fully baked, which is a bit of a bummer for me because I was really excited by the concept when it was first announced, and I did mostly enjoy the first issue. The art, despite a rough moment here or there, was up to par. It's a bit of a sobering moment to realize that this is probably our last Journey To miniseries for at least three years, if we ever even get another one in the same way as these last three. I hope Marvel at least keeps doing series set in this era, and maybe I would enjoy something from this creative team more if it was done through a longer miniseries.
A Look Inside
