Saga #22 Review

Writer ~ Brian K. Vaughan Artist~ Fiona Staples (But how cool is this cover art though? Gran Gran looks like she’s a intergalactic mob boss. And Izzy & the Blubber are her trustworthy and totally competent underlings)  

    YEAH….Saga’s back. It’s that time again. And something within the force was telling me to go pour myself a glass of wine and pick up a box of tissue before I started reading….why do I do this to myself? Why subject myself to such emotional hijacking? Brian and Fiona have me and so many of you right where they want us.                   Hold up. I’m still processing my feels.             And I need you not to judge me on that or the chosen gifs I’ve just used for this review. Ok. I’m good. Let’s do this:

So we’re treated to the home life of our family of undercover outlaws: Gran Gran is babysitting Toddler Hazel with Izzy while waiting for Marko and Alana to come home. Alana is of course, getting her working girl-soap-opera gig on into the late hours and Marko went to the corner store for some TP, icecream and baby wipes–you know, supplies. Hazel, the narrator of this story reminds us that adults are complicated. Adults tend to let things build up and fester. “Kids, not adults “have an easier time with words” Mama Alana is breezing through work, high as a kite. She still manages to breeze through work. But her work ethnic, you know?  Do Better Alana. DO BETTER. She manages to quote a line or two from a book that Master Heist (R.I.P. to our …