★★★★☆ Saga, Volume 3, by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (illustrator)
Moving right along...
Saga, Volume 3
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (illustrator)
Moving right along...
In Volume 3 of Saga we sort of wrap some things up. Not really -- nothing is really resolved, and it's obvious all these stories are gonna keep showing up. However, we get to a point of temporary, tentative, peace, so that Hazel is able to write, at the end, "It would be a very long time before we saw any of our original pursuers again," and on the final page we see Hazel, perhaps 3-4 years old, standing next to Alana.
In fact, if this is to be Hazel's story, we obviously need to move a bit more quickly. We have just had three volumes, and except for that final picture Hazel is still a babe in arms, just a week or two old.
I wanted to mention how much I admire the work of the illustrator, Fiona Staples. The drawings are somewhere in the country between "realistic" and "cartoon". That is, no one would mistake these drawings for photographs, but they are not cartoons like, for instance, Maus. They are drawings, but they look like drawings of real people. And Vaughan and Staples know how to let the pictures tell the story. There is, of course narration, but we know the feelings and thoughts of the characters through their facial expressions and body language. Even some of the laugh-out-loud moments are funny because of the expressions on characters' faces.