If you thought Saga was a dark and heartbreaking comic before, you may just want to stop at Volume 4. Usually, after finishing a volume of Saga, I like to leaf through the pages again and relive my favorite scenes. This one left me needing a hug and kitten gifs.
So, obligatory spoiler warning. Seriously, there will be spoilers. So don’t complain if something gets spoiled here.
You would think, after the cliffhanger in the last volume, that the eventual reuniting of Marko and Alana would be sunshine and rainbows, or at least a bit of a silver lining. But all the bodies that fell to get them back together makes the meeting more bitter than sweet. Although, after seeing Marko and Alana apart for once, I can see where they make a much better team than they do solo operators. (Alana spends most of this issue in pink fuzzy slippers while being held hostage. It’s the little things like that that killed me a bit. Alana always seems to have her shit together, sartorially speaking at least, and seeing her bedraggled was tough. I wanted to give her a hug.)
And Vaughn seems to have taken a crash course on treatment of main characters from George R.R. Martin recently, because three B list characters eat it in this volume. Yuma at least went out doing what she loved and her death panel gave me the most paradoxical emotions ever. Then The Brand and her crusty exterior goes and tries to be a damn hero. And finally Dengo, who didn’t have a lot of panel time, but did cause the big plot point in the last issue, so I’m counting him as a main character. You knew his half baked political hostage plan was going to fall apart, but its crash and burn was more incandescent than I had imagined it would be. Seriously, Dengo, you have the worst luck of anyone.
If anything happens to Ghus in Volume 6, I will burn everything.
