i didn't say the vector itself was bad, I think its an incredible bit of work. But the review is about teh 'magazine front page/cover' and as such I said that it looked out of place as the centre of a mag is normaly a feature of something inside. look at any gfx or computer mag and you will see what i mean.
of course the centre peice could be the subject, but as its the same colour as all text on the page, it looks like its all one peice, not a mag front page with a feature centre.
I reckon change the colour of the centre bit, or break up the colour of the headings somehow, just to give it a visual seperation from all the same colour.