SAGA by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples uses their second arc to tell the love story between Alana and Marko, and it actually makes sense! Chapter 7, "Dad grew up on WREATH, a magical moon locked in endless conflict with LANDFALL, the very planet it orbited." So we have the classic Capulet v Montague rivalry, here. "We are small, but the universe is not." Or as Linus Van Pelt once said, "There is no battle too big that I cannot run away from it!" But SAGA is about the trouble you cannot hide from because life refuses to leave lovers alone like that. Chapter 8, "I sometime forget, but mom and dad had lives long before I ever came into the picture. They had dreams that had nothing to do with whether or not I'd grow up to be an acrobat or a brain surgeon. They had their own hopes. They had their own desires. And then, against all odds, they found the perfect person to share everything with." The universality of that statement, even though Marko was Alana's prisoner, cuts through the specificity of SAGA's narrative. If there's no heat between Alana and Marko then what are they running for? (But enough about about Darth and Padma, ahem.) Marko's father Barr says to Alana, "Hazel is fine. She stopped crying the instant I put her into that absurd pile of things you call a crib." Holy Nativity, Batman! But beyond the Biblical allusion, this young family is in a desperate situation. "There is no way that I'm this lucky. My father-in-law is a seamstress?" Costume changes in comic books usually happen because a new artist has come on board, but Fiona Staples realized that going forward Alana needed clothes appropriate for her situation. Chapter 9, "Hiya, Mama Cellulite." This insult slung at a female pimp is the feminine sensibility of this series at its best: no guy would say anything about cellulite before pulling out a gun. Slave girl says, "Thataway." Each chapter of SAGA opens with a splash page and closes with a splash page, this closing has a child pointing directly at us the reader and reminds us that the stakes are always about life and death for all creatures big and small. Chapter 10, "Yeah, dad always had a way with the ladies." Marko's transition from prisoner to love muffin is critical, but Brian K. Vaughan's male protagonists (as in Y: THE LAST MAN) are often the only c*** for miles around, so they don't need to work that hard to get some. Izabel returns in high style, "Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!" Fiona Staples has designed alien witches to scatter away that are spooky as hell. Izabel is none too happy with Marko's mom Klara, "You're the old crone who sent me to this dump, aren't you?" Well, yeah, but that afforded Barr precious time to bond with Hazel, for Alana was freaking out, "I was giving Hazel a bath and part of her just... just f****** fell ff. I don't even know what the f*** this is!" Barr explains how his species works to her, yet another clever role-reversal in SAGA where a loving grandfather can give a nervous mother of a newborn invaluable parenting advice. Chapter 11, "Yeah, yeah, so my mom and dad used to have sex." Again, Alana and Marko being intimate drives SAGA forward, it's not the kind of funky doodle Nightwing was doing with Starfire for over a decade where there was no possibility of pregnancy; these two fugitives had a baby while on the run - this is why we're all here, folks. Marko tries justify his trying to knock Alana up but she's not having it, "First of all, we're not free, we're hiding on a f****** rooftop on f****** Cleave." SAGA is gender neutral in that it's the guy who is romanticizing their plight. Klara is trying to do the noble thing when their rocket ship is under attack, "Your father and I have lived rich lives, lives that aren't worth a wet s*** without you!" To his credit, Marko holds his parents in higher regard than cannon fodder, but loss has always been a factor in Brian K. Vaughan's stories and SAGA is no exception as Hazel wistfully explains, "I still have a scrap of the outfit he made for me." Chapter 12, we are on the battlefield where one of bounty hunters is saved by an ill-fated medic, "Wait... am I dying? Am I gonna..." BAM. That same hunter tracks down a lead for the fugitive family not yet realizing that, "We'd already been there a week," Unlike the first three episodes of Star Wars where everything we learn about the Force and the Empire feels forced and unpersuasive, this second arc of SAGA brings three generations together organically while putting the dangers at a slightly lower boil without sacrificing a sense of urgency. SAGA takes the time to blink its eyes, to breathe deeply, and to let its concepts cool down a touch. SAGA does not let its mythology choke out its humanity. STAR WARS took 3 movies to tell us about Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader: The Early Years, and it was too academic, too much spectacle and too little emotion to matter. SAGA never fails to be emotional: Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples gracefully bring deep feeling into every science-fiction scenario :D
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