REVIEW: Heist, Or How to Steal a Planet #3 is too damn funny

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By Jarred A. Luján — Heist, Or How to Steal a Planet is an ambitious comic book series. It has made no secret of that, because you surely don’t subtitle something Or How to Steal a Planet in an attempt to be subtle. From page to page, the book has continued to bring together the disparate aspects of it’s plot, it’s tone, and it’s widely different cast of characters into one cohesive book. While each issue has been successful, I’m not sure there’s been a better landing for it than in this one, Heist, Or How to Steal a Planet #3.

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REVIEW: Heist, Or How To Steal A Planet #2 remains a fascinating genre mash-up

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By Zack Quaintance — When I wrote about the first issue of Heist, or How to Steal a Planet, I was most impressed with the balance the book struck between pacing and exposition, possessing as it did ample world-building intermingled with big ideas. That’s all still in this second issue, sort of underlying a sophomore chapter that makes it clearer what this book aims to do — which from my perspective seems to be mash-up classic heist stories with the type of high-concept, deeply philosophical science fiction that Vault Comics does better than any other publisher in the industry.

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