I say distracting, because we soon find out that Tights is Bulma's sister, which makes her design similarity forgivable, but it's a last minute reveal that both hurts and adds to the story. Yup, this is a tie-in of sorts to Dragon Ball, which isn't too surprising as Jaco would go on to appear in Dragon Ball Super, it's a nice connection, but there's still too much focus on the references by this point, it can be a bit distracting. You see, Jaco was sent to Earth to stop an evil alien from arriving, Jaco's guess was that the alien would be an infant, because Earth is weak and the Saiyans usually don't send adults to weak planets.
Regarding Jaco's reason on Earth, by the end we find that out and while that epilogue chapter is fine, it's a bit too much fan service. Overall it's a small cast, but the heart and humor there is charming enough for that to not matter. Outside of the leads, there really isn't much in the way of cast, we just get one minor antagonist, who isn't awful, just not intimidating, which is fine because the story is about the characters. Rounding out the leads is Tights, another interesting female character from Toriyama, yes her name is odd, well sorta, but again more on that later, a fairly mysterious girl, whose background is revealed through bits and pieces, which makes her all the more interesting as she joins the tale. Omari is a fine character as well, he's built like the typical "grumpy old man" character you see in a lot of stories, but the story manages to not let that define who he is as a character, there's no story arc of him "opening up" to Jaco, he tells his story fairly early in the story, he doesn't shun others, despite admitting he doesn't like people all that much, he's an interesting character to say the least. This comic's main strength is the characters of course, Jaco is another great lead from Toriyama, he's a narcissistic and incompetent hero which is best highlighted by his constant consideration of extinction for humanity.
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