I was excited to dive into this book after watching the D20 campaign. Feminist zany space cowboys?! What's not to love?!?!

Well, a lot, turns out :/.

You're thrown into the 'verse without the benefit of a Star Wars text crawl to summarize the gist of what's happening. That's fine, that's a choice. But the PoV jumps around before you have a chance to get immersed in the setting, or to get attached to any one character. Unlike, say, Cowboy Bebop, which also throws you into the 'verse with very little context, but is obvious about who the protagonists are and what they want. Reading Starstruck, I didn't understand what was happening, who was important, or why I should care.

But I gave the book a chance, and tried to stick with it despite my confusion... and couldn't stomach it; I had to DNF halfway through. The characters were all casually incestuous in a way that I didn't understand (unlike, say, Game of Thrones, where the politics and relationships were meant to mirror actual history). I didn't see the big swing for femininity when every female character was introduced in relation to some dude who wanted to grope them. Final nail in the coffin - and I admit this one was a matter of personal preference - I didn't like the art style. It was sneering, lumpy, often confusing... It was unpleasant to look at, and when your media is VISUAL, that's a big problem.

In summary, I don't think I would have understood or appreciated even half this book if I hadn't watched D20 first. But the comic only made me pine for the simplicity of the show: To have an obvious cast of player-characters, and a GM who explains the lore. Better an RPG than a comic, is my takeaway.