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Saga #10-12
Saga, Book Four
At last, it’s finally here: the fourth massive hardcover collection of SAGA, the bestselling sci-fi/fantasy series from the multiple Eisner Award-winning team of FIONA STAPLES and BRIAN K. VAUGHAN.
After the most shocking tragedy of her young life, Hazel and her star-crossed family embark on an emotional new adventure, one that takes them to a few unexpected corners of the universe. Collecting eighteen issues, including the storyline that won the title’s second Hugo Award, this deluxe edition features a striking, all-new original cover from Fiona Staples, as well as exclusive extras, including a gallery of never-before-seen Saga artwork from some of Fiona and Brian’s favorite creators.
Collects SAGA #55-72
ABOUT SAGA
A genre-blending, sci-fi/fantasy space opera about star-crossed lovers from enemy worlds. An epic romantasy featuring a diverse and eclectic cast of memorable characters, Saga follows new parents Marko and Alana as they risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war.
After the most shocking tragedy of her young life, Hazel and her star-crossed family embark on an emotional new adventure, one that takes them to a few unexpected corners of the universe. Collecting eighteen issues, including the storyline that won the title’s second Hugo Award, this deluxe edition features a striking, all-new original cover from Fiona Staples, as well as exclusive extras, including a gallery of never-before-seen Saga artwork from some of Fiona and Brian’s favorite creators.
Collects SAGA #55-72
ABOUT SAGA
A genre-blending, sci-fi/fantasy space opera about star-crossed lovers from enemy worlds. An epic romantasy featuring a diverse and eclectic cast of memorable characters, Saga follows new parents Marko and Alana as they risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war.
488 pages, Hardcover
First published June 3, 2026
About the author
Brian K. Vaughan
1,078 books14.3k followersBrian K. Vaughan is the writer and co-creator of comic-book series including SAGA, PAPER GIRLS, Y THE LAST MAN, RUNAWAYS, and most recently, BARRIER, a digital comic with artist Marcos Martin about immigration, available from their pay-what-you-want site www.PanelSyndicate.com
BKV's work has been recognized at the Eisner, Harvey, Hugo, Shuster, Eagle, and British Fantasy Awards. He sometimes writes for film and television in Los Angeles, where he lives with his family and their dogs Hamburger and Milkshake.
BKV's work has been recognized at the Eisner, Harvey, Hugo, Shuster, Eagle, and British Fantasy Awards. He sometimes writes for film and television in Los Angeles, where he lives with his family and their dogs Hamburger and Milkshake.
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June 19, 2026
I have to admit, the decision to kill off one of the main characters and the *extended* delay between issues took some of the luster off this comic, once my #1 favorite. And I even stopped reading it in single issues, losing track of the characters and the story with the delays and the extended cast of characters.
But... I own three massive hardcovers of this book, and I love the creative team, so I picked up book four and figured, if this was the end, this is where I would end. Instead it seems quite likely I will pick up books five and six, likely when they were published sometime in the early 2030s.
Vaughan knows how to tug at the heartstrings, manipulative as he is, it always works on me, and he has a way with characters. I suspect, as noted in his text piece, that becoming the dad to teenagers informed and improved his work here with Squire and Hazel, who come to life as the new main characters, with Alanna settling into more of a supporting role. It continues to be a meditation on family both blood and chosen, on the horrors of war, on the joys and pains of sex and love, and all that other stuff along with a rich fantasy science-fiction world.
And Fiona Staples continues to deliver breathtaking visuals, whether that breath is taken away because of the beauty of her designs or the horrific things Vaughan makes her draw, torturing and threatening and even killing all these characters we have grown to love.
But... I own three massive hardcovers of this book, and I love the creative team, so I picked up book four and figured, if this was the end, this is where I would end. Instead it seems quite likely I will pick up books five and six, likely when they were published sometime in the early 2030s.
Vaughan knows how to tug at the heartstrings, manipulative as he is, it always works on me, and he has a way with characters. I suspect, as noted in his text piece, that becoming the dad to teenagers informed and improved his work here with Squire and Hazel, who come to life as the new main characters, with Alanna settling into more of a supporting role. It continues to be a meditation on family both blood and chosen, on the horrors of war, on the joys and pains of sex and love, and all that other stuff along with a rich fantasy science-fiction world.
And Fiona Staples continues to deliver breathtaking visuals, whether that breath is taken away because of the beauty of her designs or the horrific things Vaughan makes her draw, torturing and threatening and even killing all these characters we have grown to love.
July 2, 2026
While not as devastating as some of the earlier entries, this volume offers a lot of set up for what’s to come. Also, crazy that we’re only two more collections away (according to BKV) from the end of the series.
July 13, 2026
Reading Saga Book 4 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples is like getting to hang out with old friends I haven’t seen in years, but with whom we could easily step right back into our familiar grooves without a hitch. After Book 3, Vaughan and Staples took a hiatus, and then they had to publish 18 single issues and collect them into 3 volumes before finally releasing the 4th hardcover book--all of which means it’s been 7 years since I got to hang out with my favorite graphic novel family on the run in a galaxy at war.
Vaughan and Staples haven’t missed a beat. Saga remains beautiful, sexy, violent, crude, poignant, hilarious, and heart breaking. Unfortunately, I’ll have to wait a few more years at least before Book 5 is ready. But I’m going to snatch it up as soon as it is.
Vaughan and Staples haven’t missed a beat. Saga remains beautiful, sexy, violent, crude, poignant, hilarious, and heart breaking. Unfortunately, I’ll have to wait a few more years at least before Book 5 is ready. But I’m going to snatch it up as soon as it is.
March 11, 2026
love saga forever
October 5, 2026
I read the first three Saga books in short succession a few years ago that it took me a while to get into the swing of this one, it has all the good hallmarks of the prior books, but given how Book 3 left - the stakes felt a bit lower here and more episodic. It’s great to hear that the creators had a break from the immense amount of work needed to tell this epic story - and that there is a planned ending. Hoping that Books 5 and 6 don’t come out too late, and that they don’t pull their punches.
September 22, 2026
While each of the Saga books had its own hardships to deal with, Book Four was especially hard to take in for me. There is so much grief we have to endure, while on top of that, our main character is hitting puberty, which is leading her to take all kinds of actions while being highly emotionally unregulated. Everything felt like it was falling apart, and I was happy that at least with one storyline, we got some genuine hope.
Now, don’t get me wrong, Saga is still one of the most amazing literary series I know, and this book was definitely worth the wait, but, as an empathetic reader, this book might make you relive some teenage angst. At least it did for me.
Now, don’t get me wrong, Saga is still one of the most amazing literary series I know, and this book was definitely worth the wait, but, as an empathetic reader, this book might make you relive some teenage angst. At least it did for me.
August 11, 2026
4.5⭐️
That was a lot but weirdly didn’t feel like an arc?
That was a lot but weirdly didn’t feel like an arc?
October 1, 2026
Glad to see the series is still going. Real good stuff.
Review of advance copy
Saga is one of the first ongoing comic books I ever started reading, and since then I have lost count of the number of times I decided it was de facto cancelled or never coming back from a hiatus. Despite my lack of faith – and following up the most heart-rending cliffhanger I’ve ever read with a hiatus of years – it has defied expectations and continued its unsteady, intermittent journey towards a planned 100-and-change issues. Flaws and foibles aside, it remains not just one of the best comics but probably one of the best pieces of genre fiction I have ever read – certainly considering its being published serially.
Book 4 collects the first 18 issues after the series returned from its half-decade-long hiatus. In it, Alana (deserter from one side of a galaxy-spanning race war, former pseudonymous soap opera actor, occasional scam artist, small-time thief and drug dealer) and her children Hazel (adorable preteen, considered a genetic abomination in need of immediate murder by both sides in that aforementioned galactic race war) and Squire (lost son of the redeemed-in-death black sheep prince of a politically influential civilization of TV-headed robots (adopted)) as they grope around searching for some kind of secure, stable life and come to terms with increasingly having no one but each other to really rely upon. They do so in a galaxy battered about by the currents of a war that has spread across and defined it for centuries, where whole stratagems and intrigues leave whole worlds nothing but graveyards – and one where any hope of survival or happiness seems to rely upon staying well beneath the notice of anyone who matters.
The comic also continues to be about a positively sprawling supporting cast of characters whose lives at one point intersected with Hazel’s, and who the story retains an abiding interest in following as that time together permanently shaped them (even at one or two steps removed). The skill and care with which it does so is a very large part of why I continue to love Saga so dearly. The comic is as a matter of absolute principle dedicated to showing everyone it can as a real, complete person with their own traumas, dreams, loved ones, and failings both petty and grand. It is so dedicated that it accumulates a truly vast cast of likeable, endearing characters who you are (I am, anyway) at least a bit invested in the futures of – and then, because War Is Hell and it is a fallen universe full of pain and hate – it is absolutely ruthless in pruning them off in ways that should really have stopped surprising me by now. Some characters die at the end of what feels like a complete and satisfying (if bleak and tragic) arc, others feel like they have whole stories yet ahead of them only for chance and fate to deal them a bad hand. There are exactly two characters in the whole story I’m not at least slightly worried for whenever they appear on screen, and I really can’t think of a single other piece of fiction that is so reliably able to make me choke up with how it treats its cast.
Which is not to say that this is a story about luxuriating in nihilism and just watching bad things happen to good people on loop (as much as a loud fraction of the letters column for any given arc seems to think it is). This is, at its core, a story about love, forgiveness, and human (well, sapient) vulnerability and connection. People find peace, people make lives together, people genuinely become better and leave the wounds and crimes of their past behind them – it’s just very, very hard.
Stories about the importance of vulnerability, forgiveness and finding peace in a cold and dangerous world aren’t exactly thin on the ground – frankly they usually tend toward platitudes and sermonizing (at least to my dead and withered heart). Saga is near-unique because it actually makes those platitudes land, and actually makes you hope that all (well, most) of these broken, brutal people make something better of themselves and find something like peace. The fact that a great many of them don’t makes the ones who do (even just for a time) feel all the more precious.
The ‘for a time’ is important, especially in the issues covered in this collection. An adult Hazel has always been the narrator of the story, but this is the first time where she is actually old enough to be a character in her own right rather than an adorable child-shaped plot device who mostly matters insofar as she shapes the lives of those around her. This means her narration has gained a lot more personality and direct relevance to what’s going on on-panel, instead of mostly being framing and vague foreshadowing. This has the odd effect (to me, anyway) of emphasizing exactly how shifting and transient Hazel’s life is and will remain, and how the fact that the stretches of peace and happiness never last hardly makes them any less precious.
Given the immense time span the book has been written over, it’s incredibly impressive how consistent – and consistently amazing – the quality of the art has remained. Staples’ art does absolutely vital work getting across a fantastical and occasionally absurd science-fantasy universe full of so many different forms of life that you really just have to take every new one you meet in stride. The sheer number of instantly memorable and distinct character designs that I still remember when they show up for the first time after a dozen issues is also just load-bearing to the narrative working at all. Even more importantly, the art actually manages to sell the emotional beats the story runs on, and which could easily end up feeling like cheap melodrama otherwise.
The production issues Saga has gone through could probably be their own book at this point, and I will at this point be mildly surprised if the story actually finishes before part of the creative team retires or dies. But they do have a plan and know where the story is going, and at this point I’m ready and willing to follow the road as far as it will go. I should buy some merch.
Book 4 collects the first 18 issues after the series returned from its half-decade-long hiatus. In it, Alana (deserter from one side of a galaxy-spanning race war, former pseudonymous soap opera actor, occasional scam artist, small-time thief and drug dealer) and her children Hazel (adorable preteen, considered a genetic abomination in need of immediate murder by both sides in that aforementioned galactic race war) and Squire (lost son of the redeemed-in-death black sheep prince of a politically influential civilization of TV-headed robots (adopted)) as they grope around searching for some kind of secure, stable life and come to terms with increasingly having no one but each other to really rely upon. They do so in a galaxy battered about by the currents of a war that has spread across and defined it for centuries, where whole stratagems and intrigues leave whole worlds nothing but graveyards – and one where any hope of survival or happiness seems to rely upon staying well beneath the notice of anyone who matters.
The comic also continues to be about a positively sprawling supporting cast of characters whose lives at one point intersected with Hazel’s, and who the story retains an abiding interest in following as that time together permanently shaped them (even at one or two steps removed). The skill and care with which it does so is a very large part of why I continue to love Saga so dearly. The comic is as a matter of absolute principle dedicated to showing everyone it can as a real, complete person with their own traumas, dreams, loved ones, and failings both petty and grand. It is so dedicated that it accumulates a truly vast cast of likeable, endearing characters who you are (I am, anyway) at least a bit invested in the futures of – and then, because War Is Hell and it is a fallen universe full of pain and hate – it is absolutely ruthless in pruning them off in ways that should really have stopped surprising me by now. Some characters die at the end of what feels like a complete and satisfying (if bleak and tragic) arc, others feel like they have whole stories yet ahead of them only for chance and fate to deal them a bad hand. There are exactly two characters in the whole story I’m not at least slightly worried for whenever they appear on screen, and I really can’t think of a single other piece of fiction that is so reliably able to make me choke up with how it treats its cast.
Which is not to say that this is a story about luxuriating in nihilism and just watching bad things happen to good people on loop (as much as a loud fraction of the letters column for any given arc seems to think it is). This is, at its core, a story about love, forgiveness, and human (well, sapient) vulnerability and connection. People find peace, people make lives together, people genuinely become better and leave the wounds and crimes of their past behind them – it’s just very, very hard.
Stories about the importance of vulnerability, forgiveness and finding peace in a cold and dangerous world aren’t exactly thin on the ground – frankly they usually tend toward platitudes and sermonizing (at least to my dead and withered heart). Saga is near-unique because it actually makes those platitudes land, and actually makes you hope that all (well, most) of these broken, brutal people make something better of themselves and find something like peace. The fact that a great many of them don’t makes the ones who do (even just for a time) feel all the more precious.
The ‘for a time’ is important, especially in the issues covered in this collection. An adult Hazel has always been the narrator of the story, but this is the first time where she is actually old enough to be a character in her own right rather than an adorable child-shaped plot device who mostly matters insofar as she shapes the lives of those around her. This means her narration has gained a lot more personality and direct relevance to what’s going on on-panel, instead of mostly being framing and vague foreshadowing. This has the odd effect (to me, anyway) of emphasizing exactly how shifting and transient Hazel’s life is and will remain, and how the fact that the stretches of peace and happiness never last hardly makes them any less precious.
Given the immense time span the book has been written over, it’s incredibly impressive how consistent – and consistently amazing – the quality of the art has remained. Staples’ art does absolutely vital work getting across a fantastical and occasionally absurd science-fantasy universe full of so many different forms of life that you really just have to take every new one you meet in stride. The sheer number of instantly memorable and distinct character designs that I still remember when they show up for the first time after a dozen issues is also just load-bearing to the narrative working at all. Even more importantly, the art actually manages to sell the emotional beats the story runs on, and which could easily end up feeling like cheap melodrama otherwise.
The production issues Saga has gone through could probably be their own book at this point, and I will at this point be mildly surprised if the story actually finishes before part of the creative team retires or dies. But they do have a plan and know where the story is going, and at this point I’m ready and willing to follow the road as far as it will go. I should buy some merch.
July 20, 2026
Rating: 3.5
Saga Book Four is here!!!!!
Okay so it wasn't a long wait for me, as I just started reading this series last year, but man hearing how fans had to wait like... Several years for this book is wild. Not excited for the long wait of book five..... Anyway, last volume was heartbreaking for me, and the death of Marko scared me on what the future of this series will be. Overall this new status quo is pretty good, but I do have my issues with where we are at.
Right off the bat, I don't love this as much as the previous three books. Part of that is I feel at times Brian is spinning wheels narratively-and not much happens. I also feel like the same story beats have been happening for several chapters.....
Hazel as a character has grown on me a bit, and I do appreciate that she is written like an actual teenager (she still pisses me off at times though). The story arc Brian is giving Squire is amazing though, excited to see where that goes.
I love Alana too, but idk, I felt like she worked better when she could bounce off of Marko. She can be so abrasive and erratic, and Marko being there balanced it all out. Although by the end of this book Brian has setup some interesting places her character could go.
While I do have my issues with where Saga is at. It's still better than most comics on the shelf. It's still a joy to read. Fiona's art is still amazing, and the character designs are all so distinct. She's still got it. Having a consistent artist on a comic for over 60+ issues is a miracle in the modern age of comics.
Recommended for all Saga fans.
Saga Book Four is here!!!!!
Okay so it wasn't a long wait for me, as I just started reading this series last year, but man hearing how fans had to wait like... Several years for this book is wild. Not excited for the long wait of book five..... Anyway, last volume was heartbreaking for me, and the death of Marko scared me on what the future of this series will be. Overall this new status quo is pretty good, but I do have my issues with where we are at.
Right off the bat, I don't love this as much as the previous three books. Part of that is I feel at times Brian is spinning wheels narratively-and not much happens. I also feel like the same story beats have been happening for several chapters.....
Hazel as a character has grown on me a bit, and I do appreciate that she is written like an actual teenager (she still pisses me off at times though). The story arc Brian is giving Squire is amazing though, excited to see where that goes.
I love Alana too, but idk, I felt like she worked better when she could bounce off of Marko. She can be so abrasive and erratic, and Marko being there balanced it all out. Although by the end of this book Brian has setup some interesting places her character could go.
While I do have my issues with where Saga is at. It's still better than most comics on the shelf. It's still a joy to read. Fiona's art is still amazing, and the character designs are all so distinct. She's still got it. Having a consistent artist on a comic for over 60+ issues is a miracle in the modern age of comics.
Recommended for all Saga fans.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 3, 2026
Saga Book Four is the latest deluxe hardcover, and I'm all caught up now, which means I'm already dreading the wait for the next one. This stretch follows Hazel through her preteen and early teenage years, as she and her mom, along with a robot who is also her brother, try to survive in a galaxy that's not exactly friendly to them.
What I love most is how modern it all feels. Her mom is working one low-wage job after another, and you get gig work, Amazon-style warehouses, even a multi-level marketing pyramid scheme, all brought to life in a science fiction world. Everyone talks and worries like a regular person today, and it just happens to be set in a Star Wars-like universe with an intergalactic war going on in the background.
It's definitely made for adults. There's violence and sex, but it never feels gratuitous, because everything is earned and nothing is censored for the sake of being cautious. And it's still funny and endearing, with so much heart.
The art is gorgeous, and Hazel's narration might be my favorite part. Because we're hearing it from her future self, she can drop those great cliffhangers and bridging lines that foreshadow what's coming, and remind you there's a wiser Hazel out there who sees things more clearly than the one on the page.
I'm hooked enough that I might start buying the single issues as they come out. Highly recommend, especially to anyone who's already a fan.
What I love most is how modern it all feels. Her mom is working one low-wage job after another, and you get gig work, Amazon-style warehouses, even a multi-level marketing pyramid scheme, all brought to life in a science fiction world. Everyone talks and worries like a regular person today, and it just happens to be set in a Star Wars-like universe with an intergalactic war going on in the background.
It's definitely made for adults. There's violence and sex, but it never feels gratuitous, because everything is earned and nothing is censored for the sake of being cautious. And it's still funny and endearing, with so much heart.
The art is gorgeous, and Hazel's narration might be my favorite part. Because we're hearing it from her future self, she can drop those great cliffhangers and bridging lines that foreshadow what's coming, and remind you there's a wiser Hazel out there who sees things more clearly than the one on the page.
I'm hooked enough that I might start buying the single issues as they come out. Highly recommend, especially to anyone who's already a fan.
July 23, 2026
Saga Book Four collects issues 55-72 of the Image Comics series written by Brian K Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples, and letters by Fonographiks.
Approximately three years after the conclusion of Book Three (or issue 54 or Volume 9 depending on how you are reading this series), Hazel, Squire, and Fiona are still adjusting to their new lives while being on the run from just about everyone in the known galaxy.
It has been quite some time since the hardcover collection of Saga Book Three was released but it was so easy to dive back into this universe and it continues to be some of the BEST storytelling I have ever consumed. Because of how much I love and cherish this series, I don't want to potentially spoil anything for potential new readers. Just know that the book stays true to it's mission of telling a sprawling epic of a family that tackles incredibly tough real world issues within a beautiful and unique sci-fi/fantasy landscape.
I will simy leave it at that. This will most likely be my book of the year and I emplore any person who has not read Saga, to run to your nearest bookstore or library and pick up that first volume.
Approximately three years after the conclusion of Book Three (or issue 54 or Volume 9 depending on how you are reading this series), Hazel, Squire, and Fiona are still adjusting to their new lives while being on the run from just about everyone in the known galaxy.
It has been quite some time since the hardcover collection of Saga Book Three was released but it was so easy to dive back into this universe and it continues to be some of the BEST storytelling I have ever consumed. Because of how much I love and cherish this series, I don't want to potentially spoil anything for potential new readers. Just know that the book stays true to it's mission of telling a sprawling epic of a family that tackles incredibly tough real world issues within a beautiful and unique sci-fi/fantasy landscape.
I will simy leave it at that. This will most likely be my book of the year and I emplore any person who has not read Saga, to run to your nearest bookstore or library and pick up that first volume.
June 28, 2026
Oh Saga, where have you been? Has it really been seven years since I delved into your deliciously provocative world. This was pretty good. It is very much the middle of the story with a lot of "spinning wheels", but it's not like nothing happens. Our main crew is mostly just dealing with the shock of the ending from the last book, and trying to get through each day and find food and shelter. This leads us to a lot of misadventures and fun side characters. Elsewhere, is where a lot of more "important" stuff happens. I emphasize "important" since that means the plot, but I don't want to lessen the importance of seeing our main characters process their grief as they grow up and cope in their own ways. We get quite a bit of The Will and Lying Cat, and all sorts of characters are roaming around the galaxy looking for our forlorn family unit. Good stuff, and the Staples are continues to be excellent, in my opinion.
September 4, 2026
I freaking love this series, and I am so happy to have finally caught up 7 years after the last hardcover collected edition was published. I had to wait 7 years to find out what happened after that heart-wrenching bombshell of an ending!! (I refused to read the issues as they were released, and I guess that's on me)
I've seen people describe this story as a combination of Star Wars and Romeo & Juliet, but as the saga has progressed, I think it's actually a little more like A Song of Ice and Fire set in space? The story spans years, multiple storylines, involves a ton of graphic scenes (sex, violence, and both), and dares you to fall in love with characters who very well might die in the next chapter.
Apparently the end of Book Four is the 2/3 mark of the series. I'm looking forward to reading the next two collected editions when they come out, but I know I'll be so sad when it's all over.
I've seen people describe this story as a combination of Star Wars and Romeo & Juliet, but as the saga has progressed, I think it's actually a little more like A Song of Ice and Fire set in space? The story spans years, multiple storylines, involves a ton of graphic scenes (sex, violence, and both), and dares you to fall in love with characters who very well might die in the next chapter.
Apparently the end of Book Four is the 2/3 mark of the series. I'm looking forward to reading the next two collected editions when they come out, but I know I'll be so sad when it's all over.
June 28, 2026
It's obviously hugely frustrating that publication of this volume has slowed to a glacial pace. But now that we finally have a new volume, it's just as wildly and obviously readable as before, and now that we're in the back half of the story, it's more obvious than ever than it's really Hazel's story, and that's a nice change of pace.
This volume is mostly lighter than what has come before. But, it's the story of our main characters putting their life back together after the unimaginable. (And there's still some pretty deep stuff happening in the other plot threads.) It's good to see them coming together as a family, and that family continuing to expand. It's also good to see the advancement of the galactic status quo.
Overall, a terrific read, though knowing it's going to be at least three years (probably more) before another volume is frustrating.
This volume is mostly lighter than what has come before. But, it's the story of our main characters putting their life back together after the unimaginable. (And there's still some pretty deep stuff happening in the other plot threads.) It's good to see them coming together as a family, and that family continuing to expand. It's also good to see the advancement of the galactic status quo.
Overall, a terrific read, though knowing it's going to be at least three years (probably more) before another volume is frustrating.
October 12, 2026
Fiona Staples remains one of the most vivid, imaginative illustrators in comics. Brian K. Vaughn remains a dependable writer in the broad strokes, even if some individual moments can be cringey. It’s interesting that this series has been around long enough to track the changing fashions of nerd culture. The early run that started in 2012 had a sentimental wit that reminded me of Joss Whedon. Now there’s a didactic edge that’s closer to Bojack Horseman or Michael Schur. I know most of you reached for your revolver when I made at least one of those comparisons. But I’m a fan of all three despite their flaws, so I’m mostly a fan of this. Still, the main reason I’m still reading this is because it started when I was an impressionable age.
3-3.25 / Not not worth reading; Substance > Style
3-3.25 / Not not worth reading; Substance > Style
July 14, 2026
Saga returns after 7 years! Well, at least it's been that much between book 3 and 4 since that is my preferred reading. I will say I found this book slightly less interesting than the others so it is 4 instead of 5. I still very much like this weird weird world, but it feltlike there was a bit more filler in here. Not that that means nothing happens. Oh no, some big things did. But still, it felt like after the middle point we needed some setup for what comes next and also spend some time dealing with the fallout of whwt happened before. Anyway, hopefully wait for book 5 is a bit shorter :D
July 31, 2026
Obviously, this was not going to reach the highs of Book 3, but it definitely seems like these issues were a big lull before the storm of the climax of the series. It's having a bit of the same problem Game of Thrones had in the later seasons, where so many of the interesting characters had been killed off that it is hard to stay invested through some of the less interesting storylines. Big stuff is certainly coming, but the publication of this comic has slowed down so much, I don't imagine we'll be getting another collected addition like this for another 5 years at least.
July 2, 2026
Been waiting FIVEever for this one.
Picking up from the very crucial halfway point of the full run of 108 issues and game-changing issue 54's cliffhanger,we see a new reality for an older Alana and Hazel.
Things continue to be very dicey, as they wrestle with the continuing danger, the war, and everything. It's incredible to see this series still kicking, still firing on all cylinders after the long hiatus.
I can't wait for it to keep going.
Picking up from the very crucial halfway point of the full run of 108 issues and game-changing issue 54's cliffhanger,we see a new reality for an older Alana and Hazel.
Things continue to be very dicey, as they wrestle with the continuing danger, the war, and everything. It's incredible to see this series still kicking, still firing on all cylinders after the long hiatus.
I can't wait for it to keep going.
August 15, 2026
I thought this was a fantastic book, and I am still loving this series!! I am mostly just sad that I now have to wait for the next book to come out, lol, but this book was also ultimately one of the sadder books in the series so far. Obviously that makes sense since we are dealing with death and grief, drug addiction, and growing up, all at the same time. I am excited to see where Hazel's journey takes her next!
September 19, 2026
“Family may be the most important thing in the universe… but it’s not everything. The people who’ve been with us longest, who love us most unconditionally, don’t always know us best. We need friends to help us see ourselves as we truly are”
“You never know when or where your first addiction might find you… but there’s a chamber of your heart that will have been waiting for it since the day you were born”
“You never know when or where your first addiction might find you… but there’s a chamber of your heart that will have been waiting for it since the day you were born”
August 16, 2026
My first graphic novel of 2026 (I tried reading Grant Morrison’s All Star Superman but got bored of it and gave up).
I love Saga. I love everything that Brian K Vaughan has written. I love Fiona Staples’ art. I can’t wait to see where the story goes (gutted that I’ll probably have to wait a couple of years until Book 5).
I love Saga. I love everything that Brian K Vaughan has written. I love Fiona Staples’ art. I can’t wait to see where the story goes (gutted that I’ll probably have to wait a couple of years until Book 5).
July 24, 2026
It's been far too long since Vaughan and Staples released Book Three but Book Four reinforces that this is (still) the best graphic novel running. Great characters, stellar world-building, poignant social commentary, and beautiful art. Read it!
August 9, 2026
Kinda feel like the story is starting to meander / tread water a bit.... BUT I still LOVE these characters, this world, and Fiona's art. Squire is precious and must be protected at all costs.
5 stars just for pure enjoyment.
5 stars just for pure enjoyment.
August 15, 2026
[Hardcover]
I love this series, and I love the vibrant illustrations. Unfortunately the story hasn't been able to hook me after the turn it took at the end of Book Three. Even so, I will be faithfully waiting for the next book.
I love this series, and I love the vibrant illustrations. Unfortunately the story hasn't been able to hook me after the turn it took at the end of Book Three. Even so, I will be faithfully waiting for the next book.
June 25, 2026
“Apparently, raising two kids is the ideal training to become a glorified bouncer.”
June 25, 2026
This is my “we’re so back.”
July 6, 2026
Fuldstændig fantastisk historiefortælling - unik, grænseoverskridende og totalt medrivende! Får mine største anbefalinger. Ventetiden på Book 5 bliver alt for lang!
July 8, 2026
Finished everything in 3 days, 10/10 absolutely loved it
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