Saga Vol. 4

By Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER RETURNS! Visit new planets, meet new adversaries and explore a very new direction, as Hazel becomes a toddler while her family struggles to stay on their feet. Collects SAGA #19-24.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Image Comics, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 17, 2014
• ISBN: 9781632153067

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Reviews for Saga Vol. 4

[thedivineoomba · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I love this series. It is so strange - but ordinary - all at the same time. The story is amazing - the characters interesting. There is a lot to look at, visually wise. This novel has our two protagonists, Alana and Marco trying to survive a life on the run while providing for their family - its a good addition to this series, although I didn't like it as much as the previous three. This book is more of a set up for the next arc in the story.If you are new to this series - start at Volume One, otherwise you would be lost.

[lisa.isselee · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I laughed so loud when I saw king robot !
Still adoring this series, can't wait for volume 5

[untitled841 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Review:
I forgot the story line so a quick read to remember.

Quotes and snippets:
"Besides, I don't need elaborate conspiracy theories when I have the truth on my side." "The truth is boring. But if you just let me live, I swear I could help you craft a more compelling....."

[ivan0frade · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This volume retains the visual imagination of the series but introduces more serious topics, darkening the tone of the story. As problems add up, characters make unwise (but credible) decisions, and the reader needs to rethink the unconditional support he has given them.Still, great read and I won't miss the next volume.

[bobbybslax · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Relationship problems take the forefront in this volume, and while they're a bit conventional, Vaughan doesn't drag it out too long. The writing itself is good and the artwork is as fantastic as ever.

[carebear36 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love this series so much!This volume is a great extension of the series. I enjoyed reading it just as much as the previous three volumes. Great artwork and intriguing story. I can't wait to get volume 5.

[milliehennessy · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Ah! I friggen love this comic! It's funny, sad, sexy, gross and action packed with space drama. But now, I've gone and devoured it and I don't even have a release date for volume 5 to pine for. This is why I avoid comics. I can't stand the torture of waiting for one volume a read, two if I'm lucky (I'm not). I need more Saga in my life right now! I need all the Saga! If you haven't started this yet, go get all the volumes right away!

[cail_judy · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Not my favorite of the Saga books, but still entertaining.

[5eva5 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Hazel is now a toddler who keeps Marko on his feet, Alana's new job brings unexpected trouble to the family's happiness, Prince Robot IV's son is kidnapped, and they all need to team up if they are ever to put things right. This is yet another excellent installment in an excellent series. The characters are so easy to get emotionally invested in and the stakes are truly life-or-death, which makes for a very high-pressure read. Which, of course, makes the wait for the next book in the series pretty much agony.

[dgrachel · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

So good. All the feels. The story continues to be excellent and keeps me on the edge of my seat. At times I was tearing up and at others I was literally cheering out loud.i couldn’t help myself. I have four more volumes and am pacing myself to one per day. I’ll be bereft when they’re done.

[tapestry100 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I remember reading this and just not vibing with it originally. Cut to a couple of years later, and a buddy convinces me to try it again, and I was HOOKED. Cut to several years later yet again, and re-reading the entire series in anticipation of the release of the very long overdue next issue in the series after hiatus, and damn this story still holds up. I don't know

[james.igoe · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This series is relevant to the concerns of our day, and really seems to resonate with women. Focused on two (2) beings from different worlds that have a child together and ultimately told from the child's eyes, the series is funny, irreverent and a bit crazy. I love the series, and simply devour the books when they arrive.

[jnwelch_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is the fourth volume in the Saga graphic novel science fiction series. This is the best sci-fi gn series I've seen, with a twisty, always interesting story by Brian K. Vaughan and jump-off the page color illustrations by Fiona Staples.So what's the story? Well, it's complicated, but easy to follow once you enter it. The planet Landfall and its winged inhabitants is at war with its moon Wreath, whose people are horned, and the war is affecting planets far and wide. Our heroic winged and horned couple, Alana and Marko, have a Montagues and Capulets thing going, with a cute daughter named Hazel who is abhorred and adored, depending on the audience.The daughter narrates the story. A ruthless robotic elite is trying to track them down, and employing exotic bounty hunters to get the job done.We also have a spaceship that's a tree, a baby sitter who's the ghost of a 14 year old girl, swords that cut through space and time, and lots more, including romance, trying to raise a child under such bizarre circumstances, and complex villains who have their non-evil aspects. There's a confidence and humor to the storytelling that's irresistible. Staples does an amazing job with the visuals for this unpredictable series. If this kind of thing appeals to you, you'll want to give this one a try. Four and a half stars, which may turn into five if the series fulfills its promise.

[drfuriosa · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

And now the waiting begins...sigh. I feel like Vaughan and Staples laced their comics with Fadeaway.

[d.thoursonpalmer · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The pacing started to slow a bit in this one, I thought, with a heavier focus on character development and a bit of a break from the many, many plotlines covered in Vol 2 & 3. While I wasn't enjoying it quite as much through the beginning, that was all made up for by the last issue contained, which picked almost everything I'd been missing right back up and made me desperate for the next one.

As usual Staples' art is fantastic, weird, double-extra-cute in many cases, and super violent in others. (All the best things!) Some really fantastic splash pages and lots of sneaky details hidden in the panels if you're the type to linger on them for a while.

A couple of new characters appear and we get check-ins with almost all the recurring cast. Vaughan cuts to some important issues of family, personal needs, and the unwitting, cruel selfishness that I think every one of us is capable of, and in many cases has committed. Though I thought the book skewed toward domestic strife, or at least that's what stuck out, there's plenty of Saga badassery to be seen as well, never fear.

[glennis.leblanc · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This arc is more of a set up for the next stretch of stories. The part I liked was there was almost no back story at all in this set of issues, the story goes straight forward and leaves you with a bit of a cliffhanger with Hazel and her parents. Only one new character gets introduced to the story and that is more of the B story thread. This is not the volume to start with but with only 3 previous collections it shouldn’t take someone long at all to catch up. Now to wait for the next volume.


Digital review copy provided by the publisher.

[lavaturtle · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I quite liked this installment in the Saga series. The development of Robot society was great. The characters are vivid and complex people, as usual. I want to know what happens next!

[wyvernfriend · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

While Alana works to keep the family going, Marko tends baby Hazel. Both are distracted, her by drugs and him by another parent. Things get complicated as well when a baby is born in the robot empire, with the father away and one janitor takes his revenge.It left me wanting more

[jennybeast · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Still enjoying, but not sure I like where this is going... possibly that's the point, though.

[lycomayflower · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Still gorgeous, compelling, brilliant, sexy, and violent. Leaves me wanting more, more, more.

[melissarochelle_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Read on January 27, 2015I wasn't sure where this would go after the third volume, but I was surprised! There were some things explained more clearly...or at least things I needed to be reminded of, like the relationship between the Robots and the Landfallians. It also expands the universe a bit more by introducing new characters on new planets -- and at least one character that creates quite a mess.

[tobinelliott · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It becomes very hard to critique a series as uniformly excellent as Saga. The art is still top-notch, the writing spot-on, and the surprises keep coming.

Seriously. Just a great series.

[ragwaine · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This got a little boring for me when it settled into "mundane life", but in the last couple comics it began to pick up again. The best thing about this series (for me) is that it really feels like he just let his imagination run wild and didn't reject any ideas BUT he always sticks to a pretty basic/classic story. It kind of shows that you can throw any kind of window dressing you want onto a story but it's really not that different.

[viragoreads · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Dude this story is getting brutal!This volume is full of angst. And not good angst. Alanna and Marko having issues is disheartening. Prince Robot IV is completely out of his robot mind. And we've got the usual murder and kidnapping I've become accustomed to seeing in Saga. Poor baby Hazel is caught up in the middle of all this crap.Can't wait to see how this shakes out!

[bookbrig-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I still really love this series (SOPHIE LYING CAT = !!!), but it's also started to do that Brian K. Vaughn thing where it's veering into ever more depressing stuff/character deaths. My heart is not pleased.

[joshuaatkins · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

SAGA remains one of the best comic books being published today.In vol 4, Hazel grows older and the family starts to fall apart.

[stefaniegeeks · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Officially addicted to this series and a Vaughn fan for life.

[allriledup · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

One of my favorite series of all times!

[greeniezona · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The one book I got for Christmas, I devoured it before we were done opening presents. Of course, given this series' penchant for weird, sexually explicit scenes, that required some occasional strategic book positioning. But I made it work.

So, Volume 4! Our little family is in hiding, but no longer on the run, as Alana is now supporting them with an acting job on the Circuit. Very early on Hazel tells us that this is the story of how her parents split up, which lays a cast of gloom over everything that happens. But just when you think the story is going to fall into a cliche of the strain parenting puts on a marriage, as usual, the story skips sideways.

And just for the record, this is my favorite art out of any of the graphic series I'm following now. Fiona Staples is absolutely, consistently amazing. Never an off panel.

Still in love with this series!

[wanderlustlover_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I read the last two volumes (plus everything but the last issue of Volume 5) of this series in a catch-up during last week so it's all in a blur for me. I have so many feelings about all the relationships that take place between these people. The importance of politics, and the staleness of it, when you become too removed from your own wars, if they are being fought a world away from you, only mentioned in your news. The families, both the main one, and the two secondaries. The characters who struggle to remain together and those who end up dying too soon. I am still dying to know where this series takes us, especially with some of the ominous "not for years from now" promise the narrator has already given us.