I'm honestly not sure if this comic makes any sense if you haven't read the book first.

High points of this comic:

• Eli Vanto's facial expression in every single panel

• AND THEY WERE ROOMMATES

• Extremely brief and visually captivating is the only manner in which Governor Pryce's storyline is acceptable. I'm pretty sure I zoned out through half of it when I was reading the book, but in this the bright colors and aesthetic way her evil little face is drawn kept me watching.

• The panel that shows Thrawn pushing Eli over the Hedge™ in dramatic silhouette

• Thrawn is drawn as an extremely long, tall nerd

• THE GLASSES

• Eli Vanto's face in the last panel when he says "I am he." Like, who drew that? Why is he so smug? What does he know that I don't?

• When Eli yells at Thrawn and you can practically see fire reflected in his eyeballs and steam coming from his ears. Not even anime could have represented rage in a more OTT way.

• The part where Eli goes undercover as an arms dealer and meets Nightswan again. Amazing.

• Every SINGLE scene where they're at the academy. Thrawn lounging on the bottom bunk with his extremely long legs? Sitting in class? Doing homework? Truly astounding and iconic. You haven't truly internalized College AU Thrawn until you see him forced to sit in a too-small chair listening to a lecture, being taunted in whispers by the 20 year old student in the seat behind him. I'm tempted to print some of these out and put them up on my wall so I can stare at them every day.

Low points of this comic:

• I hate Thrawn's hair at all times. Both his Tarzan hair and his Draco Malfoy hair. I know that's how it always is and always has been, but someday, sometime, there has to be a better option.

• No inclusion of the "I would have protected you, as indeed I protected myself" scene.