Saga #55 Review

Writer: Brian K. Vaughan / Artist: Fiona Staples / Image Comics The Wendy’s Social Media Manager No Longer Has Time For Your Nonsense. Saga’s back. The epic, space, fantasy opera that has captured the collective attention of nerds across the universe has returned in glorious and true form. Almost like piloting a treehouse rocket to evade authorities and a long standing war to which you and your familial unit are literally the antithesis for. Welcome back to the fold, where Brian K. Vaughan makes you meditate you on the meaning of ideology one moment, snort at the next page, and then weep slowly into your childhood blanket you dug up specifically to cry into. Where Fiona Staples continues to amaze with immaculate set piece after immaculate set piece, brilliant renditions of assorted characters, and the occasional surprise full spread of sultriness. You know, just to remind you that you shouldn’t be reading it at work (or at the very least make sure no one can sneak up behind you lest they get the wrong idea). It’s Just A Jump To The Left Saga #55 is cognizant of the fact that time has passed in the real world, as Hazel’s narration explains that three years have also passed in her world since her father died. Marko’s death in Saga #54 was one of the most devastatingly emotional moments in all of fiction. As several animes and TV series have done in the past, the time skip in narrative allows for us to recallibrate. We get the echoes of their grieving, but we do not wallow in i…