Saga #31 Review

Writer: Brian K. Vaughan / Artist: Fiona Staples / Image Comics Fiona and Brian are truly heartless beings…why would you drop this new Saga this week–the day before the Thanksgiving holiday?! So tomorrow when I am surrounded by my family at the table and if I am asked to say grace , I just may slip in a soundbit that I am grateful that toddler Hazel has been grown up healthy and maybe even happy but question how this issue ended. Lord. Help. Me. I. Am. Not. Ready. For. The Side. Eye. That. My. Mom. Is. Going. To .Throw. My. Way. Anyway, back to this review: Seeing little Hazel alive is not only a big sigh of relief (as we saw a glimpse of her at the age she is now thanks to this time jump on the last page of Issue #30) but seemingly happy, adjusting well wherever she is and a true class act amongst her peers. I’m not surprised. How can you not love her?

In a book like Saga where we are constantly thrown curve balls that make us clutch all Grandmama’s pearls and then some, it’s rare that we see a different side of the war. Here it is a detainee (detention) center of sorts where Hazel and Klara end up at. The overwhelming prejudice they face by enemy soldiers that attempt to dehumanize them, the fact that armed guards stand guard outside Hazel’s kindergarten classroom…it’s an all too familiar sense of AWFUL in a fictional setting that deals with the atrocities of wars, that has seen usage in the real world that holds some relevance today.

For me this issue really put in …