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Ditto what Cyber said about reading the story in one or two sittings. I collected the first fifteen issues of v4 before I started reading, and from that angle pacing was never much of a problem (to me, at least).
Ditto also what Azrael said: thought bubbles. I can't be the only one who gets annoyed when characters incessantly spout expository soliloquies (that goes for any comic, novel, film, etc.)
Now then, at the risk of being "that guy"...
*Volume 3. Not sure how--or if--it would have effected V4, but I wish Laid hadn't booted it out of the canon. (100% my opinion...besides, it's still canon to me. All the more reason why I'm lickin' my chops for the conclusion!)
*Hand-off. I don't begrudge Laird his decision to step away from the property--especially in light of the toll it has apparently taken on him. But I wish he hadn't left the book hanging. If he really has no interest in finishing, I think it would be nice if he handed all of his notes, drafts, story ideas, etc off to a couple of the other Mirage mainstays and said, "Play me out, boys." (Could still happen...?)
*Leo/Cha. Hard to critique this one in full, since the story never got wrapped up, but so much more could have been done with the Leo/Cha feud. As it stands now, they aren't exactly poised to collide (Leo's in the Nexus, and Cha is...doing Karai's laundry?)
Now then, not really a suggestion so much as a musing: am I the only one that didn't hate April's origin? What's more, am I the only one that thought the issue with her and Rennet was well done, and something of an existential kick in the teeth (particularly when lil' Robin keeps asking what happened to the baby...to say nothing of the idea that the first couple "Aprils" might have rematerialized in that hellscape Kirby inhabits)? Of all the story lines that Laird left dangling, I was most intrigued to see where he would have gone with this one. Had he blown it, THEN I would have gladly joined the stone-throwers (hell, I'd have elbowed my way to the first row!)
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