YMMV / Star Wars: Bounty Hunters

• Funny Moments:
  • Valance borrows an X-Wing with an astromech.
  Valance: Almost getting us killed is not the same as getting us killed!
  • Valance traps a couple of pirates in an airlock.
  Pirate: Let us out of here!
  Valance: Okay.
  • A full-page picture of two pirates gloating that they turned the power back on so Valance can't hide from them. He's standing right behind them.
• Growing the Beard: After a rather controversial first arc, the series picked up in reception not only when T'onga was revealed to be still be alive and the series started giving spotlight to some of the film background bounty hunters (such as Bossk, Dengar, Zuckuss and 4-LOM), T'onga was also given secondary protagonist status when Valance was forcefully taken under Vader's command.
• Ho Yay: Much like in Legends, Zuckuss's partnership with 4-LOM has quite some homoerotic undertones. When the two get separated during War of the Bounty Hunters tie-in arc, Zuckuss is utterly depressed over his partner's seeming betrayal (the duo's one-shot comic in the main War of the Bounty Hunters mini-series reveals that 4-LOM was the only being in the galaxy to truly understand Zuckuss). When he gets the chance to undo 4-LOM's reprogramming, he's willing to risk his life for his old partner.
• Jerkass Woobie: Zuckuss becomes one during the War of the Bounty Hunters tie-in arc. After attempting to steal Han Solo from under Boba Fett's nose, Zuckuss is separated from his partner 4-LOM — and one of the only people who actually understood him — after nearly getting killed by Boba. He eventually reunites with 4-LOM in his one-shot comic, only to learn he had been reprogrammed to kill Zuckuss by a former bounty-target, and then feel betrayed when 4-LOM seemingly runs off on his own volition. When T'onga comes to recruit him in the main Bounty Hunters comic, he's wallowing in misery in a Gand sanctuary station. When he sees another opportunity to get 4-LOM back, he's willing to risk his own life to do so, which shows just how attached he is to the droid.
• Salvaged Story:
  • T'onga's apparent death in the first arc was criticized for its poor treatment of a woman-of-color who was explicitly shown to have a wife (what didn't help at the time was it came off the heels of The Rise of Skywalker, which faced similar accusations in its sidelining of Rose Tico), which may be why it is revealed a few issues later that she survived and another character provides exposition on how this happened. While some readers were skeptical about this being a hasty attempt at course-correcting to save face over a controversial writing decision at first (the last issue of the first arc shows smoke from a second escape pod in the background, hinting at her survival), said skepticism died out over time as T'onga established herself as the secondary protagonist for the comic.
  • In The Force Awakens, a frequent criticism was that three martial artists who starred in The Raid films were cast as Kanjiklub members, but never got to show off their skills. In the War of the Bounty Hunters tie-in arc, we get to see a young Tasu Leech in the Nar Kanji fighting pits, impressively taking down a much larger opponent. He also becomes part of T'onga's crew and develops a Teeth-Clenched Teamwork dynamic with Bossk.