Starts Good Ends Bad
The cover promises 'Adventure on the High Seas!', and that's just what you get. Arak and Valda travel to Naples to book passage to Constantinople, but soon run afoul of Saracen pirates on the high seas.
The issue has standard, but good swashbuckling adventure for a dozen pages. But then, when Arak and Valda find a severed hand that the ship's captain has kept for some inexplicable reason, the story veers off into silly supernatural territory. All too often the comic lapses into the crutch of having something unexpected happen and then a character conveniently explaining how it happened with a line of dialog. Which not only makes things seem like it's being made up as they went along, but also causes the dialog to come across cornier than normal.
The Viking Prince backup feature is, again, a decent enough sword and sorcery tale suffering from too little space to be told properly.
There's a good comic in here just waiting to get out - if only the co-creators didn't feel they had to out-spectacle everyone else.