I like the "main" marvel stories once it got going. Brian Daley's Han books too. I also quite liked Dark Empire and the Heir to the Empire trilogy even though that was way too damn long. I have a feeling the novels got padded out (as opposed to Daley and Splinter of the Mind's eye) merely to appear more like "grown up" novels in the airport bookstore. After Dark Empire and Zahn it really just felt like a factory churning out stuff and it was a chore to keep up with, so I bailed. If Dark Horse would just do a simple monthly book continuing after Dark Empire, with a good permanent writer and artist, I would buy it. The marvels did a good job with "minor" adventures, which is how it should be, these constant earth-shattering crises every month just becomes hilarious.