This title pales in comparison to the original. Perhaps it is unfair to compare Peter David to the great Neil Gaiman or even Pascal Alixe to Andy Kubert, but I will. It is probably the fault of both David & Alixe that noone speaks Elizabethan, or dresses in Elizabethan clothes, or believes 17th Century notions. Most of the clothing looks just like 21st Century clothes. And it is possible to do this right since Jeff Parker & Ramon Rosanas have more success (although still not as good as Gaiman & Kubert) with 1602: Spiderman.
I would recommend that Peter David might want to actually read the original. For instance, one storyline has Reed Richards (whose name occasionally switches to Richard Reed) not believing in God. This contradicts both history & Gaiman. ALL 17th century scientists assumed the existence of God as a given. The Religion vs. Science bit is new. Back then they were synonymous. Also, in Part Eight of Marvel 1602, Gaiman has Reed say "One divides them into categories, in order to think with them, but still, there is but one table, which is God's Creation."
So much promise, so much failure.