![]() ![]() The third "volume" returns to feeling more immediate, less passive, in that it contains more forward action and no flashback - discounting that the first four chapters are themselves flashback in the sense that we're seeing how events unfolded in between the end of issue #11 and issue #12. ![]() Yes, we see Marko's childhood and some of how Alana and Marko got together, plus The Will rescuing Sophie (nee the Slave Girl), but the jaunt to the planet that cracked like an egg still felt largely for lack of anything to do with Marko and his mother during this arc (besides allowing Staples to draw a giant's giant testicles). Obviously I enjoy Saga immensely, though I still rate the first six issues ahead of the second, as I still felt the second six issues contained a fair amount of filler. 2 (issues #7-12), this review will focus mainly on the final third of the first compendium, being issues #13-18. Though this is ostensibly a review of Saga: Book One, since I previously reviewed Saga Vol. ![]() Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga again after six years, thanks to among other things the book taking a hiatus and the announcement of a set endpoint when it returns, and also the three handy three-in-one sub-omnibus hardcover books that make the otherwise-nine paperbacks more manageable. ![]()
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