It would have worked better if they did the originals first and then the prequels. A lot of the stuff in the prequels was formulating the sillyness of Star Wars in general, light swords, force powers etc which would have worked for the originals just as well. But they used that up on the set of films that also has the huge worldscapes and odd plot points.
Some of it is straight Ceberus Syndrome though, as the characters have become more developed. Because there's still a lot of silly and fairly illogical things to point out about the originals (the creatures, the machines, a lot of the strategies etc) but now the characters are more developed and we've grown used to the DM world, it feels less fun. Making fun of the walking camels is exactly the sort of thing that would have happened in the prequel episodes, but it's less fun here because the world is more serious and less chaotic as the players have grown used to the game.
For me, the reason I've stopped reading regularly is because
a: lt moves much, much slower than DM of the Rings or similar comics. A few weeks later, and it's stil Jabba's sand skiff?
b: lt's still technically a group of people role-plaing through Star Wars, but the tone seems more like that "turn off the audio of a Thunderbirds episode and have the players make up the dialouge" game they did on Whose Line.
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Comic for prequel fantastic. Original is much less interesting.
The comics for the prequel is absolutely fantastic. Funny all the way through.
Now we're well under way in the originals, the quality of the humor and awesomeness has sunk a great deal.
This is not really the writer's fault though.
Like DM of the Rings, this webcomic ports a movie series into D&D webcomic form through a central premise.
DM of the Ring uses the premise that the campaign is run by a hardass railroading GM and the campaign is (for the players) absolutely not fun. They're just there so the DM get to tell a story. It works all the way through.
Darth and Droids uses the premise that all the idiotic decisions in the Star Wars movie were due to a bunch of P Cs doing random stuff and going off rail. They make fun of plot holes, bad character writing, and general illogicality by chalking it up to P Cs stupidity, randomness, or plain bad dice rolls. This works fantastic for the prequel movies because the movies are full of those things: plot holes, bad character writing, and general illogicality. But the originals are well written, concise, and makes sense. This means we get to see a lot less of the P Cs actually fool around now in the comics, which diminishes the humor a lot. But there's no way to write out of this without either a) straying from the movie's plot and/or b) changing the P Cs personalities that were already so well established.
It's a shame really. All in all still worth a read. And the prequel movie comics are definitely a good archive binge.