Saga, Volume 5 by Brian K. VaughanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Volume 5 picks up the story at a particularly tense point: Dengo has added Hazel, her mother, and grandmother to his kidnap club and plans to turn them over to the Revolution. Prince Robot IV and Marko are forced to team up together to rescue their children, and are both grappling with some serious issues. Prince Robot's wife is dead, and Marko - an avowed pacifist - used violence against his wife. Marko uses the hallucinogenic drug that Alana is addicted to to try and escape from his fears that he is, at his core, a violence-addicted person. Meanwhile, Alana desperately tries to convince Dengo that the Revolution is dangerous and, despite Dengo's wishes that no children be harmed, will probably do terrible things to Hazel. Meanwhile in a third location, Marko's ex and her young Page are still fighting alongside The Brand trying to acquire samples of dragon semen to cure The Will. Like the rest of Saga, this was great, but it falls prey to one of the easy failures for comics: it's over too quickly and some of the big moments are given too little impact.
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