I re-read the HS2 half of the comic recently, and I actually like it a lot. There is some beautiful stuff in there. The one area that lets it down for me is that they really, really seemed to be struggling to move the plot forwards. There was this general air of stagnation, with Candy taking forever to grind through all its interpersonal drama whilst Meat marked time waiting for it.

I think this is mainly down to the ending of the Epilogues being a pretty awful place to have to start a new story from. They'd almost have been better off inventing a whole new timeline - the Pumpkin Pie Timeline? - so they could start a self-contained story that didn't have to wrestle with the complex baggage of its predecessor. Maybe reintroduce the Epilogue timelines as alternative universes later on. While the Beyond Canon team did a sterling job of livening up the end of Act 1, I suspect they would have struggled too if they'd been on it from the start.