Saga Vol. 5

Saga is back in all its glory picking up where the previous volume left off we start off learning about some of the history of the war between Landfall & Wreath.  However we still don't know what started the conflict between the two factions.  Dengo has taken the Hazel, Alana, Klara & the little robot baby hostage to get the attention of the Robot Empire, but the space ship tree has taken them to a snowy planet & stranded them there.  Meanwhile The Brand, Gwendolyn & Sophie are on a quest to save the The Will's life.  Their quest has taken them to the planet Demimonde a land of dragons.  The third party of our heroes is traveling across space trying to find where Dengo has taken the others.  This group consist of Prince Robot IV, Marko, Ghus & Yuma.  The underlying theme in this volume is the role of the parent & sacrifice or better yet the definition of sacrifice.  Three of our heroes heroes die in this volume one from each of the aforementioned parties.  One dies for the memory of a lost loved one, while another dies saving the other members of their group & the third character dies protecting the youngest member of their group.  All in all the every character has moment to shine in this story there are even some new characters introduced in this volume The Revolution a group of terrorist who are bent on killing innocents to stop both sides from fighting. The Will wakes up at the end of this volume & receives a gift from The Stalks brother.  By the end of this two of our groups are reunited but it is far from a happy ending for all.  I eagerly await the next volume of this series part of me wants to wait until Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples are done with this series but it is just to good.