This is the story of what happened to Darth Maul and his criminal group : Shadow Collective after he was defeated and captured by Darth Sidius himself on Mandalore. For that you can see the Clone Wars Arc ending with the episode called "The Lawless" in which we can see Darth Sidius himself taking a high risk to be unmasked by flying to Mandalore in order to crush his former apprentice.
In the comic book made of 4 parts we can first see Darth Maul being rescued from prison by 2 death watch mandalorians: Gar Saxon (that just reappeared in the Rebels season3) and Rook Kast.
Darth Maul get back his Dark Saber and re-unite what remains of the Collective with the Pyke Syndicate and Black Sun.
Again his ultimate goal is to seek vengeance on his old master by bringing back his mother (Talzin) to life.
I will not describe the story to avoid spoiler but I will describe what I found good and less good.
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It is a very intense comic book full of the Darth Maul ruthlessness and Energy
It is expending the Clone wars Arc that remained unfinished.
It involves all together the five most evil characters of that time : Darth Maul, Darth Tyrannus (=Dooku), Darth Sidius, Grievous and Mother Talzin! At the climax they all fight each others! this is something remarkable to see.
It features also Mace Windu and Kenobi.
Again Maul and Talzin are the really endangering the Darth Sidious plan to a point he has to get personally envolved in the fight. This confrims the power of the witch dark magic.
Maul reaches again the top (he manages to reunite the clans, he captures Dooku and Grievous and gbring Talzin to life) but he his again crushed by his former master. He appears that Maul destiny is to fail at the climax over and over again.
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It is perhaps too intense in battles and there is lower focus on the characters.
We do not learn many new facts of the characters involved. He little of the childhood and how he became sidius apprentice.
The story could be considered weal because Darth Maul knows who in reality is Dath Sidius so a way to make him weak could have be to reveal Palpatine true identity. Then he could have try to take over...
I strongly recommend this comic serie because it is overall great fun and we really enjoy to see again our big villains in action.
May the Force be With You
