I like the ideas in this comic ;-)
Still, I don't see why people make such a fuss about this one being set in Renaissance Italy still - there are new characters, new locations...and they just had more story to tell. Plus Ezio is way more engaging as a character than Altair! I don't mind seeing a bit more of him ;-)
I, too, am looking forward to the next time period/main character, but I'm just as happy for the moment with more participation in the machinations and larger than life figures of Renaissance Italy - I mean, come on, we've had the Medicis, the Borgias, da Vinci, Copernicus, Machiavelli...and now we can run around Rome! =D