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And so the Shadow of Maul series has now concluded and while we got some cool panels of Maul doing typical Maul things, we've learnt absolutely nothing new about him or his crew.

We still have no idea how Maul went about recruiting Icarus and Scorn even though there has to be a reason why he went out of his way to specifically recruit them instead of anyone else (I know there's a lot of behind the scenes talk that they remind him of himself and Savage but dammit, I actually want to see that rather than it being implied!)

We don't know how Maul and Rook met up after the Siege of Mandalore or shown Maul being betrayed by the other crime syndicates.

We're not shown the lore behind how spybot came to be and if Maul was actually the one to build him, something I hoped would have been shown in this final issue.

Heck we're not even shown how he and his team were able to locate an area within Janix in order to set up their base of operations.

I'd say we learnt more about Vario and Deemis than we did about Maul and his crew.

Five comics and 90% of it is dedicated to Lawson and Two Boots lore rather than the character the series is titled after.

I knew after issue 3 I shouldn't have got my hopes up for something deeper being told about Maul but I guess I just wanted a few crumbs of lore at the very least. Honestly at this point, the Darth Maul comics from 2017 are by far the best we've got of him (In my opinion)

Not only do I think he's drawn the best way in this but so much of the issues are packed showing his skill as a fighter. On top of that we get to see a small portion of his upbringing under Sidious and how he came to hate the jedi, but then later on, we also get to see his character become more nuanced when he encounters his first Jedi, Eldra Kaitis.