Review: Saga, Vol. 5 (Saga #5) by Brian K. Vaughan (Writer) & Fiona Staples (Artist)

Tuesday, February 13, 2018


Title: Saga, Vol. 5

Series: Saga #5

Author:  Brian K. Vaughan (Writer) & Fiona Staples (Artist)

Genre: Adult, Graphic Novel, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Publication Date:  September 9th, 2015 by Image Comics

Format: Paperback

Source: Library


Rating:




Multiple storylines collide in this cosmos-spanning new volume. While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies.

Collecting: Saga 25-30


Ugh that ending just that ending killed me. Ok. ok, let me back up a little bit I am getting way ahead of myself. This Vol. 5 was pure epic and I know there is going to be more epicness in the other future volumes. Which I can't wait too read them all soon. But let me just say I absolutely love and enjoy Vol. 5 it also broke my heart a little bit as well. I don't want to go into too many details about Saga, Vol. 5 without giving away spoilers. But the graphic novel starts were Vol. 4 left off at. With Marko and Prince Robot trying too find and save there family's, and the both of them are working together, can you believe that the hunter and the prey working together. It is most definitely an uneasy alliance between Marko and Prince Robot but they make it worked at the end. Alana is trying to protect her family while she is being held captive by a crazy, nut, who enlist more nut jobs who called them self's I think the revolution who want the war between the two different species to stop. But I also believe they all are cold-blooded killers who don't give a rat ass too what happens to Alana family or too Prince Robot son because they have killed lots of innocent lives as well. Now all things go to crap when the revolution enter the storyline, I mean big and I really mean big terrible crap goes down. By the end, I was left heart reeling and broken for Alana and Marko. Now I am going to leave it off here without getting any more spoiler but that part of the story of Alana and Marko broke my heart just a little bit. Now there is another storyline going on at the same time in this fantastic graphic novel with Gwendolyn, Sophie, The Brad I think is her name along with Lying Cat to find a cure for The Will. Now Ohh boy they all go through one hell of events to try to get the last piece to finding the cure for The Will. They had to go to the home planet of the stalk to find the last piece of the cure, and it was not an easy task to do. By the end, I really wanted to shake Sophie so bad to her senses for what she did at the end too get the last piece of the cure. I just couldn't believe Sophie horrible and terrible bad decision that she did by the end, and, and it just left me both angry and heartbroken for The Will. That I so didn't blame him for talking to Sophie they way he did by the end of the graphic novel. Now I am going to leave it off here without getting to a spoiler, but all and all I really did love and enjoy Vol. 5 that I can't wait to read Vol. 6 soon!














Brian K. Vaughan (Writer)


Born in Cleveland in 1976, Brian K. Vaughan is the Eisner, Harvey, and Shuster Award-winning writer and co-creator of the critically acclaimed comics series Y: The Last Man, Runaways, and Ex Machina (picked as one of the ten best works of fiction of 2005 by Entertainment Weekly).

Recently named "Writer of the Year" by Wizard Magazine, and one of the “top ten comic writers of all time” by Comic Book Resources, Vaughan’s work has been featured and/or reviewed in countless mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, MTV, National Public Radio, and feminist magazine Bust, which photographed him for their “Men We Love” issue (don’t ask).

As an undergraduate film student at New York University, Vaughan got his big break as part of Marvel’s Stanhattan Project, a workshop for aspiring comic book writers. In the ten years since, he has written nearly all of the major DC and Marvel characters, everyone from Batman to the X-Men.

In September of 2006, Vertigo released Vaughan’s first original graphic novel, Pride of Baghdad, lavishly illustrated by artist Niko Henrichon. Inspired by an unbelievable true story of four lions who escaped the Baghdad Zoo during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Pride is equal parts anthropomorphic adventure and Animal Farm-like parable about the ongoing conflict in Iraq, and was described as "the best novel so far" about the war by the UK's Telegraph.

Along with his creator-owned work, Vaughan is currently writing The Escapists, a Dark Horse miniseries inspired by Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, as well as a new Doctor Strange limited series for Marvel with artist Marcos Martin.

This summer, the new WGA member/CAA client transplanted his poor playwright wife to Los Angeles, where Vaughan is currently working on the screenplay adaptations of Y and Ex Machina for New Line Cinema, as well as other new creations in film and television.

His home on the web is www.bkvcomics.com, and he’s become the last aging hipster to get a MySpace page: www.myspace.com/briankvaughan




Fiona Staples (Artist)


Fiona Staples is a Canadian comic book artist known for her work on books such as North 40, DV8: Gods and Monsters, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents and Saga. She has been cited as one of the best female artists working in the industry, and one of the best artists overall











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