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Saga, Vol. 10 by Brian K. Vaughan

8 reviews

setaggu's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Death of parent, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Police brutality, War, Cursing, Murder, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

abookwormspov's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Cursing, Body horror, Racial slurs, Bullying, Colonisation, Classism, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, and War

florarune's review

adventurous dark funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Gore, Death of parent, Blood, Addiction, Drug use, War, Pregnancy, Body horror, Miscarriage, and Murder

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

   Another great installment in the Saga series. But not as action-packed as I'd hoped from the comeback from hiatus, but that may be because I read the first 2-3 parts included previously. 

Illustratations Rating: 5 stars
Such amazing art!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Violence, Grief, Death, Blood, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent and War

Minor: Child abuse

ehmannky's review

dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Saga is back and breaking my heart just as well as it did at the end of the last volume. I feel like I've said this before, but I love that Hazel, despite being so important as an idea, is just a kid and from what we know of her narration, she's going to grow up to be just some person, nothing special. I think it's just lovely storytelling. The grief of our main characters is so well done, especially showing how kids grieve. I truly hate The Will and Gwendolyn, but I think that their journey from vaguely sympathetic characters to those who are so caught up in the politics and mind games of the war that doesn't care about them that they kind of lose any qualities that made them sympathetic has been so well done. It's so interesting because the one Landfall man (I don't care about his name) points out to his superiors, "who cares if this child is still alive? It's been 10 years and nothing has changed." And that's what Gwendolyn and The Will and the rest of the movers who are so tied up in this war can't get--they're wedded to the war to the point it seems unmovable, even as it eats away at them. That being said, I still want The Will to die and idk Gwendolyn to at least lose her job (I feel like Sophie is going to take over at some point in the future and we'll see this story play out between Hazel and Sophie). 

This volume has a lot of setup for the incoming volumes, and it takes until the end of the issue for the big change to finally hit. I still bawled like a baby during the last few pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Grief, Sexual content, War, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

saltycoffee's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Police brutality, Death of parent, Grief, and Xenophobia

atlas_shruggs's review

challenging dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

God I missed this series. I've been waiting for so long that honestly this could've been one page and I would have been happy. But jesus was this good. And sad. And it made me very angry. But I really liked it. And now I need Vol. 11 so that's great. I'm gonna go cry now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Blood, Drug use, Grief, Racism, War, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

Minor: Rape

billyjepma's review

adventurous emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I don't know if this is an entirely satisfying return for the series, but I also don't think it needed or wanted to be. After the events immediately before this new chapter starts, taking some time to reset and establish a new status quo is smart, and Vaughan and Staples do that incredibly well here (because of course they do). The writing is as sharp as ever, the continued commitment to worldbuilding riveting, and the characterization, despite not being exactly what I wanted, as solid as ever. Staples is in especially high form, too, and arguably delivers some of her most impressive visuals thus far, which is saying a lot, considering how consistently lively, creative, and gorgeous this book has been since the start.

Vaughan is laying a lot of groundwork here, and most of it works. Did I wish we had more of certain characters experiencing or talking about certain emotions and experiences? Yes, I did, but that's not Vaughan's style, and I know we're going to get there eventually, so I can be patient. I still struggled to find my footing in this new chapter, though, because it felt like the story had moved on from previous events when I hadn't yet (which I acknowledge is a side-effect of having just caught up on the series, like, six months ago).

Thankfully, the foundation that's developed here is stellar, and seeing Vaughan and Staples reset the table for the next half of their story is equal parts exciting, infuriating, and terrifying. I can't wait to see all the creative new ways they'll break my heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Death of parent, War, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Rape