Saga #29 Review

Brian K. Vaughan ~writer/Fiona Staples~Artist/Image Comics Tagline: The Last Revolution makes their move. (AND DO THEY. OR DO THEY REALLY?) What a fun looking cover this is, by the way! INTENSIFY THE DRAMA FROM LAST ISSUE. Saga continues to be great at what it does: leading us along this perilous journey of feels and babies and death and making love/hate it every step of the way. Issue #29 opens to Hazel being on the cusps of being turned over by the big shot who wants her, and who also wants her parents dead. The Last Revolution who Dengo has called up to aid him in whatever plans I’m still not clear about is quickly becoming less and less of a mystery here and more of a threat as we see just how far they are willing to accomplish their grand plans. What’s interesting here is that this band of misfit warriors hold no allegiance to anyone: they’re different species from different planets but bound by the same ideology in mind. I know that they are minor characters but I’m more curious to how they all met up–they look to be all survivors affected somehow by the ongoing war or bounty hunters or both?

  I have to say that the juxtaposition between the two “teams” the ladies, Gwen, The Brand, Sophie and the dudes–Marko and the Prince and Ghus has really grown on me. Each team is traveling with a goal in mind but the girls get along MUCH better and tidbits of backstory keep being slipped, which is fine in my book. In the back of the issue where folks send in letters and em…