Do people really dislike Dark Empire?

I just finished the New Republic Volume 2 Omnibus, and in it is all of Dark Empire. I expected not to like it because I've only ever heard bad things about it, but I thought it was pretty good. The only thing I really didn't like to much is the monochrome coloring that they used. I would tweak some of the dialogue to make it a little better, but overall, it's pretty good.