This was the first of the new run of Marvel Star Wars series I read, and I have to say it was a pretty dismal start. I really can't believe Mark Waid, the writer behind many of the best runs of comics out there, is behind this boring, poorly-plotted slog of nothing. 
 The story follows Leia immediately after the destruction of the Death Star, and her pursuit to unite the survivors of Alderaan who were off-world when the planet was destroyed. This could've been a pretty grounded, surprisingly human take on Star Wars lore (which is usually just blasters and lightsabers), but no time is really devoted to the loss of billions of lives. Instead, the Alderaanians in the story just IMMEDIATELY start bickering and getting upset about petty governmental squabbles, who loves Alderaan the most, etc. Imagine if, after 9/11, everyone in America immediately turned on each other and started arguing CONSTANTLY, instead of the mass sense of patriotism and determination that actually occurred. 
 Now I'm not saying that Star Wars has to include 9/11 allegories and handle complex human emotions and war scenarios, but also you can't really kill off a whole planet worth of people, then focus on those people's struggle to maintain their identity, without hitting a few of those notes. It's a heavy subject to just turn into more blaster shooting and squabbling. I found it to be pretty terrible. 
 But even if you don't agree with me on that part of it, this is also just very terribly structured. The story jumps around at random, never giving any real weight to any single plot point. There seem to always be 10,000 things going on at any given moment, none of which are given the time they need to actually feel important. 
 Also, while I love that Waid wrote almost exclusively female characters in this story, I wish he'd taken the extra time to define them beyond "the subordinate one" and "the difficult one" and "the naive one." Most of these characters are so one-dimensional you can't even see them. 
 So, not a great start for the new Marvel Star Wars stuff. But, spoiler alert, I've already read a couple of the other books, and they're much, much better. So there's hope!