
It sort of breaks my heart to say it, but after waiting four full years for a resolution to the massive cliffhanger that the story got left on back in 2018, I think I might be done with Saga. I was desperately hoping that Marco would have had some way to get out of the situation he was in, but, if he did, it wasn’t in this volume. And the misery porn keeps piling up. As much as I adore Hazel and Alana, their story is getting darker and darker, and the bodies are piling up. The number of people who want to kill a ten year old girl is sickening. And sure, that might be part of the point, of what unending war does to people, and to societies, but it’s not something I want to read any more. I might come back one day, once the story is complete but for the moment, I’m bowing out.
That’s not to say anything bad about Staples’ art or Vaughan’s storytelling. The art is as consistently good as ever and Vaugan is good at what he does. The overall story is moving along, and some of the dialogue is just brilliant, but the story no longer makes me want to eagerly read the next volume.
Call me back when The Will gets a much more horrible death than the one Marco refused to give him.