“…being brave might make you good, but being a coward helps keep you on the right side of the dirt.”
Keep reading for a review of Saga #58.
I avoid avoid major spoilers in this review, but if you’d rather go into the issue completely cold you may want to wait to read this review later.
First off, the art is gorgeous, as usual. Whether it’s a full page of Alana running for her life, or one panel of Hazel looking up from her music, the details and colors are always stunning.
It was a quieter issue this time around, no big reveals or horrific violence, it basically sets us up for big reveals and horrific violence in the future.
We already knew something was up with Bombazine’s past, and while we don’t get a lot of details, we definitely get enough to read between the lines. We still have to find out what Alana will do with this information (because you know it’s going to come out eventually) and how it’s going to be used against both of them.
We see enough of Hazel and Squire to know that they’re fine, learning music with the pirate crew/musicians. Turns out Squire’s got some natural talent. (Heh, I loved when one pirate had to apologize for calling Squire a “machine,” because that’s a terrible ethnic slur to say to a Robot.)
Hazel The Narrator makes a deliciously ominous comment about father figures, but it’s vague enough that we can’t pinpoint who she means yet: we could find out next issue, we could find out in twenty issues. We’ll just have to chew our nails thinking about it for a while. I’m sure it’ll be worth the wait.
Meanwhile, Alana has a chat with a client about lost spouses, and he makes a suggestion regarding Marko’s unfinished book, so we can expect to see that again. (I’d completely forgotten Marko was writing a book…I really need to go back and reread the first fifty issues…)
And finally, the Wings once again demonstrate that they just can’t let this bastard-daughter-of-an-interracial-couple thing go. All the lives that all sides have thrown away to cover this up, can it possibly be worth it? Apparently so, because if their plans work out they’re going to break the hearts of all the characters, not to mention the readers. Brace yourself, this could get very, very ugly.
