So far in this series Issue #1 has been a horror story featuring Maul, Issue #2 was a Maul story from a certain point of view, this issue is the first to explore the inner being of Maul and shows that Schultz has a grasp on what makes him as a character tick. Read Full Review

This is a pretty solid standalone tale that digs more into Maul and his service under Sidious and is interesting to contrast with Vader. There are certainly similarities in the master and apprentice dynamic here and the comics over in Darth Vader have certainly made it stronger over the years in how Sidious was tamping down and toying with his apprentice, but you also get the sense that Maul had a lot less potential in comparison to Vader. We know how far he did go and the struggles throughout it but it starts looking more and more like Maul was a placeholder until Sidious could get what he wanted. I do think there's a good What If? series that would focus on if Maul had survived cleanly in The Phantom Menace and got away and Vader wasn't elevated to apprentice – or Sidious orchestrated a confrontation between them. Read Full Review

Still, any book in which Maul's anger is on full display is hard to dislike, yet we still hope the final issue of this series can bring with it a bit more narrative weight. Read Full Review