History YMMV / StarWarsTheRiseOfKyloRen

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The comic begins to flesh out Ben Solo's fall to the dark side; this was only vaguely explained in the movies and resulted in some viewers feeling his motivations were underdeveloped.

** Despite Kylo's fixation on emulating Darth Vader being huge part of his character, the comic barely even ''mentions'' Vader, let alone focuses on Ben's feelings about his grandfather and why he looks to him as a role model. It sticks out because according to other Expanded Universe stories, Ben never knew he was Vader's grandson until shortly before he fell to the Dark Side; his family had kept this from him all his life and his mother is [[Literature/StarWarsBloodline forced to come clean after being publicly outed as Vader's daughter]], but we never find out how Ben, Luke and the other apprentices reacted to this and how it fed into Ben's FaceHeelTurn since the bulk of the story is set immediately after Ben knocks Luke out.

** Ren, the original leader of the Knights of Ren, has casual dialogue that clashes with seriousness of all other characters, [[WalkingShirtlessScene never wears a shirt]] even when it's snowing, and takes off his helmet to reveal his face looks near-identical to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein Jeffery Epstein's]].

** After years of speculation of what or where the surname "Ren" originates, the book reveals that it's another word for "lightsaber", essentially meaning that Ben/Kylo named himself "Kylo Lightsaber". It's worse with the Knights' leader, who's name is [[OnlyOneName just Ren]]; at least Kylo can call himself by his first name as opposed to just "Lightsaber". Mind you, "The Knights of the Lightsaber" actually sounds pretty badass.

* FanDislikedExplanation : Some fans didn't like how issue #1 presented Ben's destruction of the Jedi temple. [[spoiler:Previous works treated it like Ben killed all the other students ''deliberately'', but this issue shows him lashing out in rage over his confrontation with Luke and doing it ''unintentionally'' -- and it's also possible that he was only a witness to events that caused by Snoke or Palpatine, who struck while Luke was incapacitated, rather than making Ben the perpetrator. These fans feel the changes rob his fall of agency or view it as a cheap way of revising his backstory to make him more sympathetic.]]

** There's something chilling about seeing Snoke greet Ben in an almost fatherly manner when the fallen Jedi arrives at his hideout. Not to mention the hideout itself is littered with the remains of its former inhabitants, who were killed by the plants [[HoistByHisOwnPetard they themselves planted]] in an attempt to fight off the dark side.

* FanDislikedExplanation : Some fans didn't like how issue #1 presented Ben's destruction of the Jedi temple. [[spoiler:Previous works treated it like Ben killed all the other students ''deliberately'', but this issue shows him lashing out in rage over his confrontation with Luke and doing it ''unintentionally''. Some fans go further and misinterpret the story as making Ben a mere witness to events caused by Snoke or Palpatine. These fans feel the changes rob his fall of agency or view it as a cheap way of revising his backstory to make him more sympathetic.]]

** Due to the comic's short length, it skims over interesting things like Luke actually training Jedi (which we never really saw in the Sequel Trilogy), and Ben, Luke and Lor San Tekka travelling around the galaxy looking for Force artifacts and lore.
** Although the focus of the comic is Ben Solo's fall to the Dark Side, it never goes into much depth about his exact motives, skimming over things like the pressure to live up to his family's legacy, why he trusted and confided in Snoke over everyone else, his strained relationship with his parents (and thus why he felt he couldn't go to them after the incident with Luke) and why he would support the First Order despite being raised under the New Republic. It completely skips over most of his early life; it [[TimeSkip jumps]] from Ben meeting the Knights of Ren as a child, to the night he fell to the Dark Side at the age of 23, and then just focuses on Ben joining the Knights of Ren, with little detail as to what happened in the interim. This could be partly because the series is only four issues long.
** Despite Kylo's fixation on emulating Darth Vader being huge part of his character, the comic barely even ''mentions'' Vader, let alone focuses on Ben's feelings about his grandfather and why he looks to him as a role model. It sticks out because according to other Expanded Universe stories, Ben never knew he was Vader's grandson until shortly before he fell to the Dark Side; his family had kept this from him all his life and his mother is [[Literature/StarWarsBloodline forced to come clean after being publicly outed as Vader's daughter]], but we never find out how Ben, Luke and the other apprentices reacted to this and how it fed into Ben's FaceHeelTurn.

* SeriesContinuityError: In The Last Jedi, Luke states that a handful of students left with Ben after he slaughtered the rest, likely implied to be the Knights of Ren. However in the comic, only three other students leave besides Ben, decidedly as his enemies, and the Knights are instead an unconnected group of marauding Dark Side adepts.
** Another reference book, [[LongTitle Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded]], states that the Knights of Ren took part in the destruction of Luke's temple, but in the comic they aren't even aware of it until after the fact.

** Another reference book [[LongTitle Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded]] states that the Knights of Ren took part in the destruction of Luke's temple, but in the comic they aren't even aware of it until after the fact.

** Another reference book [[Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded LongTitle]] states that the Knights of Ren took part in the destruction of Luke's temple, but in the comic they aren't even aware of it until after the fact.