Saga, Volume 8 (Hardcover)

from nbmars

It's always a happy day for me when I learn there is a new volume out of this exceptionally good space opera/graphic novel series. It tells the continuing story of the little family of Marko and Alana - a mixed-race couple - and their daughter Hazel. The family is struggling to stay together in s...

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Most of this one deals with taking care of Alana's miscarriage and one issue of The Will being tortured along with a review of his backstory. The sweetest moment in the comic I think is Hazel singing a lullaby to the “forecast” ghost of her almost born brother. For once the last issue in this arc...

from villemezbrown

This series is at its best when it is sensationalistic and shocking, when it is casually cruel to its main characters, and when it twists me momentarily into a state of vertigo with a scene transition before explaining what is going on. All of which, of course, happens in this volume. Good stuff.

from tapestry100

Saga is another series that continues to surprise me with how much I enjoy it. I did not like the first volume of the collected editions the first time I read it, and set the entire series aside in my head. Cut to about a year later, and a friend convinced me to give the series a try again, so I ...

from DGRachel

Not my favorite but rounding up to 4 stars because of the hopeful ending. After Vol 7, I needed a happier, more hopeful ending to Vol 8. Again, great characters and some surprising plot twists.