I can see why many people love the series but wow, the deaths in this story packed a punch. Nobody is safe and the plots within plots are churning to a destination. ( )

NOOOOO! 😭😭💔 ( )

GODS DAMMIT DID'JA HAVE TO DO THAT?

I'm convinced this series will never end happily and I will be so emotional I won't be useful for anything soon. ( )

CW: It's kinda a spoiler, so look it up if you have triggers around family

So, it's still heart fisting perfection.

What is there to say at this point?!

I had an absolute nightmare of a night last night with a surprisingly nasty C-PTSD trigger sending me into panic attacks, finding new ratchets above 11 for my chronic pain, and a convulsing, writhing agony of conversion symptoms all night, and reading these comics until I literally couldn't hold or see my tablet anymore brought me a great deal of comfort and its own distracting pain. ( )

Damn you Brian K. Vaughan! You just had to kill some major characters and break my heart in the process....the end of chapter 42....seriously???? ( )

This is one of those books where you finish, and all you can think is: God daaaaaaaaaamn. ( )

Fiona Staples & Brian K. Vaughan’s Saga Volume Seven collects issues 37-42 of Saga illustrated by Staples and written by Vaughan. The story finds Alana, Marko, and Hazel along with Izabel the ghost, Petrichor, and Prince Robot IV traveling to the comet world of Phang, where Landfall, Wreath, the Robot Kingdom, and others have brought their war, turning the inhabitants into refugees in their own homes. On Phrang, they find a momentary peace and Vaughan spends some time examining their characters. Naturally, even as the travelers find some respite from their own conflict, the larger war manages to intrude upon them, leading to a quietly heartbreaking conclusion to this volume. In the meantime, The Will is dealing with his professional setbacks and seeks out Gwendolyn and Sophie in order to convince Lying Cat to rejoin him. The art is everything fans expect from Staples while she and Vaughan craft their space opera, treating even the most ridiculous characters seriously so that the audience cannot help but care about them. ( )

This series is starting to drag for me, and this installment was grimmer than any the others. I still like the artwork, although I maintain that the explicit turns do nothing for the story.
This volume didn't wow me, and I hope they pick up the pace in the next one. ( )

Loved this one! They always feel too short though, but that's because there's a lot to catch up on and keep pace with. I love everything about Saga. The Timesucks are a ridiculously creepy concept, and the narration had some gems in this volume. And the ending was damn near poetic. ( )

Of course this book was great, only one in the series has been less than stellar. I was good with this storyline up until the last few pages. Then I cried. ( )

This series never lets up -- robots, still darn weird. Adventure, neverending, feelings of doom continuing. ****so many spoilers next ****

So sad about the loss of Izabel and Kurti and all his incredibly weird meerkat clan, oh, and the baby. Gah. Rough ride. ( )

First, you are like NO! A then YES! And then NO NO NO. And then YES. And then SOB NO SOB NO SOB NO. ( )

That is the ballsiest ending I have ever seen... ( )

Holy crap what a ride. The writer/artist sure know how to pack an emotional punch. ( )

Goddamn it. I don't think I've ever teared up over a graphic novel before.

Can't say that any more. ( )

Oh these poor poor people. The main family. The Will. All of them. Man this series got depressing.

But for the moment, let's back up a bit.

Everyone (well, mostly) is together (for now) and they're stuck on a rock that's full of war. They have to get some fuel. It's a story chock full of character moments. Some people try to do the right thing (support a tribe of locals) and some ... aren't so good at it (send a ghost in as a scout--if ghosts can 'live', ghosts can die...). It even has a touch of a look into the societies that truely believe their God will provide for them--without judging, but also without mercy.



Speaking of judging:



It's funny becase... well, after reading the whole volume, it's less funny. But I really like her. She's wonderfully snarky for being dead and all.



I also like what they're doing with Prince Robot IV, now Sir Robot the disowned. He was a straight up bastard for a while there, but he's really coming around. He's not at all a good guy, but he as a wise Ralph once said, he might yet turn out to be a Good Guy.

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Fiona Staples artwork is still top notch, but I am less impressed with the growing inconsistencies in the characters, especially Marko and The Will. There are now too many subplots, which seem to be spinning away from the original themes of the novel. Vaughn works to keep it fresh and edgy with some new and nasty characters, which he needs because he keeps killing the ones he has developed. For me anyway, the storylines need to be tightened and integrated better. ( )

That was devastating. *sobs uncontrollably*

****
Gawd, this one just KILLS me. ( )

tears! ( )

A lovely evening's read for when the power's down. ( )

It's so hard to review this book without any spoilers. But if you've read Saga up until this point, this book will continue to rip your heart out and stomp all over it, and you'll come back begging for more. ( )

It's to Vaughan's and Staples' credit that you can have a complex story with so many characters that you just get so invested in *all* of them and wonder how this series is going to tear at your heart next. This is one of the sadder volumes in the series, I think, so brace yourself. The politics are going to take an interesting turn, as will the Gwendolyn/Sophie storyline.

All I can say is this: thank goodness for Lying Cat. ( )

Saga is a comic series by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Fiona Staples. Volume 7 collects the issues 37-42.

Plot:
Hazel and her family, plus ragtag additions, are still traveling through the galaxy. Prince Robot IV would like to return to his son before his birthday, so he is hoping to make good time. But the ship is running out of fuel, so they have to land on a comet that has been one of the places where Wreath and Landfall wreaked havoc. While they are hiding in plain sight, The Will tries to find Sophie and Gwendoline, hoping to make amends.

In a series filled to the brim with harshness (but also love), Saga Volume 7 is a particularly harrowing volume that had me crying more than once. I guess it’s a sign of how invested I am in these characters.

Read more on my blog: https://kalafudra.com/2020/09/07/saga-volume-7-brian-k-vaughan-fiona-staples/ ( )

This series keeps getting better. Vol. 7 offers a little less action than some previous entries but even greater emotional depth. And the ending... Heartbreaking. Brutal. Powerful. ( )

IM FALLING APART NOOOOO

how did we go from full page length-shots of robot penises to THIS ( )