Name: Wren Hardwick's review of Saga Vol. 9 by Brian K. Vaughan
Item: Saga Vol. 9
Rating: 3
Author: Wren Hardwick

Brian K. Vaughan

Get ready for the most shocking, most impactful SAGA storyline yet, an action-packed adventure about fake news and genuine terror. Collects SAGA #49-54

Saga Vol. 9

Wren Hardwick

Saga, Vol. 1

this was more explicit than i was anticipating like suddenly two robots r shagging whilst my mum walks past🙂‍↕️ but this is a super cool scifi concept im intrigued to see where it goes :-)

Traveling to a cosmic lighthouse on planet Quietus in order to find their literary hero, new parents Marko and Alana are chased by a host of pursuers.

Volume three

Saga

SO GOOD!!!! I am just binge reading this comic series immediately.

One of the most amazing comics I have read so far. The illustrations, the plot, and the characters are so well done. I will definitely read the rest of the books.

After battling assassins, rampaging armies, and aliens, little Hazel faces something truly frightening--her grandparents.

I LOVED THIS. Somehow, I loved this volume more than the first one. Everything is just so perfect. From the illustrations to the plot and the characters, you can not find a mistake in this.

SAGA Book Two continues the action-packed education of Hazel, a child born to star-crossed parents from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war.

Book two

At long last, it's finally time for the THIRD massivehardcover collection of SAGA, the critically acclaimed sci-fi/fantasy seriesfrom the multiple Eisner Award-winning team of artist FIONA STAPLES and writerBRIAN K. VAUGHAN. Collecting 18 of the most shocking and impactful issues fromthe epic tale of Hazel and her star-crossed parents, this deluxe editionfeatures a striking, all-new original cover from Fiona Staples, as well asexclusive, never-before-seen extras. DeluxeHardcover format - 7.25"" x 10.875 CollectsSAGA #37-54

Saga Book Three

I LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH AND I INVESTED SO MUCH INTO THE CHARACTERS THAT I CANNOT TAKE MARKO BEING MURDERED. NUH UH! I WILL NOT BELIEVE IT. I hope it is just a dream or something along the lines of that because, just no. Hopefully, other issues come out soon.

Serge L

A compelling story with gorgeous visuals. At times, it springs into places that make it hard to follow, but overall, it's a Sci-Fi/Fantasy mixed read.

Hanna Rybchynska

This was a short but cool introduction to this sci-fi story. 
I like this! A little too aggressive and grotesque however it was a good story!

"While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies"--Page 4 of cover.

Monicap

2019: Saga is the dopest

2014: Again, so weird yet so compelling.

Colton Ray

I'd really say more 2.5, but I'll round up to 3 for the inventiveness of the author. The world of robots and aliens and giant cat creatures was interesting. The main problem is that I just didn't find the main characters likable at all and I felt there was too much gratuitousness here: lots of unnecessary sex scenes, swearing, violence, and general unpleasantness for unpleasantness' sake. It kind of embodies what I find most annoying about "adult" graphic novels in that they usually try too hard to be edgy and lose most aspects of fun. I guess I've just been spoiled to this type of kitchen-sink science-fantasy by Guardians of the Galaxy.

"The sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old world"--P. [4] of cover (v. 1).

Sunny

I've missed this series so much 😭❤️

After a dramatic time jump, the three-time Eisner Award winner for Best Continuing Series continues to evolve, as Hazel begins the most exciting adventure of her life: kindergarten. Meanwhile, her starcrossed family learns hard lessons of their own.

Vicky  Nuñez 

If you haven't read a graphic novel and isn't sure where to start this is a great starting comic. Check out Saga Volume 1.

 
Despite the long wait between each volume, I still enjoy saga. There was a lot of action and adventure and Ghus! 

 So true though!

This volume was a bit strange, because each issue was given to a set of characters, unlike before where we would get a bit of each character in each issue. I wasn't bad, it was just strange if you don't particularly care for the chosen characters of the issue. I like most of them, so it was okay!

I loved that (view spoiler)[ Alana and Marko are back together, loved their interactions with each other and their deep quest to get their baby. They are the main characters and their relationship is what hooked me on the series and I kind of missed seeing them being playful and loving with each other.  (hide spoiler)]

I really enjoyed it! I loved each character's personal quest and all of their storylines were really engaging, especially Hazel's.

I honestly am so happy that I still love the series, though now comes the sad part the long wait for the next volume. I am sure it will all be very worthy.

"The sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old world"--Page 4 of cover (volume 1).

Popsugar Reading Challenge 2017 - A book with pictures. 4/52 

I was never a huge comic book lover until Saga.

Saga is the story of two star crossed lovers.
 Landfall and its moon had been at odds for as long as they can remember. Their war had traveled throughout the whole galaxy making planets choose sides. 
Until Alana and Marko, two soldiers from each side fall in love and have a baby, coexistence between this two species seemed impossible. Saga starts with the greatest happiness, the birth of their baby and follows with the constant fear that they might lose their little girl to the war.



Saga is a mature sci-fi/fantasy story filled with adventure, laughter and great worlds. Each panel made me fall in love with its characters and its story a bit more. 

Each character that makes even the smaller appearance will stick with you and they go from the bizarre, to the just plain weird. And I love it. 


I admire Brian K. Vaugh and Fiona Staples so much, how they have managed to understand each other so well, and they each know when it's time to let the other shine.

Some of the best parts of the story are when Brian lets Fiona's art speak for themselves without any dialogue or when Staples does a simple background to let the character's dialogue resonate. 

Saga is at times funny, at others touching, and sometimes even maddening, but every single page has managed to astonish me. It is and will always be one of my favorite comics because it made me fall in love with the genre.

And I would recommend it to both comic book fans and non comic book fans. It is a good story, made even better through the great art of Staples.

It reminded me of when I was a little kid and what reading a great fantasy novel for the first time felt like. It felt like the discovering of a world where everything was new and wondrous.

Saga, Vol. 9

Part of me expected the ending, and yet part of me yearned for it not to happen. I dread and yet anticipate the next volume in fear of what other tragedy awaits them.

** spoiler alert **
           Rereading for the first time since the hiatus ended and honestly even years later Saga is timeless.

 I remember the first time i read this volumes, I was a bit disappointed when Alanna did drugs and that whole storyline made me a little bit sad but now rereading as I'm older and someone who's done the joyless work for a few years I can say I get it. And that's just an example over how good this story is. 

Even years later I was not disappointed and only made me root for this characters once more.

"After the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions embark on a life-changing adventure at the westernmost edge of the universe."--Amazon.com.

Saga is its own special type of comic. It's so difficult to pinpoint its genre. Even though outwardly is a fantasy/sci-fi comic, but it is so much more than that. The fantasy setting is merely the background, the running social commentary is where the comic really shines through. And its why so many people find it so enjoyable because even those not used to reading fantasy can fall in love with the story.
This volumen did not fall behind, it was just as heartwarming and amazing as the volumes behind it.

I am relatively new in the comic book world, but even I, the neophyte of comic book readers knew in the first page of SAGA, that this would be amazing. 

SAGA is about two star crossed lovers who fall in love in the middle of war and how their love produces a child. There are two armies after them, a few bounty hunters and they have to survive.

Saga is the creation of Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples.

Fiona Staples is the artist behind the drawings, and I got to say she is one of the best illustrator I've seen. She brings the comic to life with such a simplicity. Most illustrators try to fill in the pages as much as possible to give detail and depth to the story, but just by drawing the characters and not detailing the background as much, she lets the reader fill in the blanks. 

Overall, SAGA is a great story, that even those of us who have not much experience in the comic book realm can enjoy. If you like Fantasy, you will definitely enjoy this.

"From the worldwide bestselling team of Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan, 'The war for Phang' is an epic, self-contained Saga event. Finally reunited with her ever-expanding family, Hazel travels to a war-torn comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling over for ages. New friendships are forged and others are lost forever in this action-packed volume about families, combat and the refugee experience."--Back cover.

Volume seven

I love Saga.
It is one of the few series I look forward each year. 
I know that it can break my heart but I still enjoy it.
And this is the perfect example.

chloe rae

Everything is picking up! Can't wait to continue!

This couple has a better love story than Romeo and Juliet (which frankly, isn't that hard to accomplish but you get my meaning). Even though they are hunted, threatened, torn apart, and thrust together, they are still completely and utterly in love. From difference sides of the war? That doesn't stop love.



This whole series just keeps getting sadder and sadder. People are getting killed and kidnapped left and right and it is just breaking my little cold heart. Hazel is just a little kid. Who cares if she has wings and horns? She is just a child! 



All I know is that the surprise cliff-hanger at the very end of this volume is finally something worth looking forward to and on a happier note (depending on how you look at it I guess).

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Um...? What was this?



Like, this was weird. 



Character development was absent, they killed off one of the main characters, The Will got fat and feels sorry for himself and still hallucinates, and.. that's about it. I was disappointed. The art was as magical as ever but I felt as if the story was lacking. 



I wish we got to learn more about the newer characters too.

I love this series


so much.



The art is fantastic. The story has so many different angles happening that it has a sprinkle of Game of Thrones going on (you know, seeing 20 different things that happen at once so really only a small amount of time has passed). 

But that main couple though.

I can't even really say anything about this book besides that it is super fantasy, super adult rated, super pretty and super awesome.

This whole thing...


Just broke my heart...


Who does this...


This blue-big-earred girl...


Think she is?


And why...


Is my ship...


Crashing like a wrecking ball?


UGH My heart is breaking... the moral of this volume is don't do drugs and don't hang out with girls who want your.. er.. affection, when you have another girl's.. er.. 'affection' already.

Oh an also, friends aren't always loyal.

My heart is so torn right now. I need glue.

Another one recommended by Caleb...


I died.

This graphic novel was GREAT! It has a lot of action, beautiful art and some really interesting ideas. It has a Romeo and Juliet feel since both main characters Alana and Marko are from opposing sides of a very long war. 

Except they have a baby and name her Hazel.

Except one has wings and the other has horns.

Except they get a babysitter named Izabel.

No big deal right? Not to mention the bounty out on them. How some prince that has a TV for a head is trying to find them, a guy with a giant sphinx who can tell if you are lying are not is trying to find them, a girl with a spider body is trying to find them...

...just everyone is trying to find them, okay? They just want to live their lives with their forbidden love-child and their pink-ghost babysitter. It isn't that much to ask for.

Very much an adult comic. There are some pictures that I was even like "woah, too much information thanks." But the story itself is very interesting. They are world-building for sure and still keeping my attention. I don't feel as if I have been dropped into the middle of something I don't understand.

I loved it, I am so ready to read the next volume!

The art in this book is one of the best I have ever seen. It isn't rushed and is completely thought out. And it is absolutely stunning; and I am not just talking about Marko because let's be honest he is very easy to look at.



Don't mind me I'm just going to update my taste in men to be one's with horns

Anyway, the beloved couple gets a backstory in this one, which I really appreciated.



I mean, how do two completely different people from two different ends of a way fall in love? Well, they didn't. But they did. It is a very well known story about a prisoner and his guard. But I feel as if they didn't really fall in love until after they made their decision to have Hazel (our narrator). 

They are the definition of a 1970's hippy: don't make war, make love.

aaaand then we get the parents.. who are not so welcoming to change. That was a good angle to take in the book. I feel as if two parents who are so pro-war and anti-wing, they would have been a little bit more angry with him. But then again, there was a baby involved so they probably were trying to get over the fact that they were old enough to be grandparents and were, in fact, grandparents to a hybrid.

Anyway, we get really graphic with some monster and his parts being drawn really grossly. This book is in no way not for adults only. Like there is so many different types of graphic content in this graphic novel series that sometimes I have to take a double take at what exactly someone deemed okay to put in a book. 

I still am giving this five stars because the story is running so smoothly and there are so many different lines that are about to collide together and make such a mess that I am just too excited.

If you need me, I'll be here:

"Every Relationship is an education.

Each new person we welcome into our hearts is a chance to evolve into something radically different than we used to be.

But what happens when those people disappear from our lives?"



This series covers a lot of different feels. It covers the feels of enlistment, the feels of losing someone to 'meaningless' war, the feels of fighting a battle that wasn't your's to begin with, the feels of losing a child, the feels of losing a sibling, the feels of losing a friend. 



The art in here is spectacular and graphic, and not for the faint at heart. We see a lot of what we usually do: horrible deaths, people with no other options, and heartbreak. Hazel's parents are separated (in the literal sense, not in the divorce sense), Hazel is basically being sold to the enemy by someone you would think would be on her side. My favorite little cat-lady is trying to right her wrongs but gets more wrongs in the process and the past comes to haunt The Will.

The story is just as spectacular as it has always been. So if you have liked them thus far, you will like this one just as much.

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