I'm glad to see that this comic is getting made, since the property was tied up in legal limbo for so long. I think the new look still screams eighties, and I'm perfectly fine with that, because the show really was an artifact of its time in a way that other eighties cartoons like the Transformers or G.I. Joe or Thundercats were not. A story about giant transforming robots fighting each other can be updated pretty easily. Soundwave and the cassettes don't really work anymore, but we still drive cars and fly planes. A show about glam and punk bands making music videos really only works in the music-video era.

A change I would like to see would be to make the show a little more morally grey. Again, unlike Transformers or G.I. Joe, Jem wasn't about a war. Jem was about bands and record companies competing for success. That can be an interesting story without villains, per se. There's room for more than one band and more than one record label to be successful (especially considering that the Holograms and the Misfits weren't even very similar bands). I would like to see Eric Draven be less of an evil record executive and more someone who just doesn't understand Jerrica. Maybe he really means it when he calls Jerrica "darling" and wants to take care of her but doesn't understand that she doesn't want to be taken care of; she wants to take care of herself. I think that works better with her conflict between her desire to be a respectable businesswoman and run her record company and her desire to be a kid in a band with her sister and their friends. The whole point of the story is that it's about duality and the conflicting sides of Jerrica's personality.

Anyway, those are just a few thoughts. I am interested to see where this comic goes.