{"id":3323443,"date":"2013-01-20T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insidepulse.dev\/?p=323443"},"modified":"2013-01-20T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T14:01:27","slug":"review-saga-9-by-brian-k-vaughan-and-fiona-staples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/2013\/01\/20\/review-saga-9-by-brian-k-vaughan-and-fiona-staples\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Saga #9 by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Review:\u00a0 Saga #9<\/b><\/p>\n

Published by Image Comics<\/p>\n

Written by Brian K Vaughan<\/p>\n

Art by Fiona Staples<\/p>\n

The Plot<\/b><\/p>\n

The Will is rescuing the little slave girl and receives a timely assist from The Stalk.\u00a0 The Stalk then tries to calm the girl down, but at that moment it is revealed to be the Will’s dream sequence.\u00a0 His cat is there to greet him when he wakes up.\u00a0 Gwendolyn emerges and she eventually comes to an agreement to help in freeing up the slave girl in order to convince him to continue pursuing Marko and Alana.\u00a0 Gwendolyn calls Mama Sun and convinces her that keeping the girl will hurt business for Sextillion.\u00a0 The Will, Gwendolyn, and his cat all travel to Indica to pick up the girl.\u00a0 Once they arrive they find some resistance, which they are eventually able to overcome.\u00a0 Back aboard the Will’s ship, he tries to decide what to do with the girl while finding that she may be quite useful to his mission.<\/p>\n

The Breakdown<\/b><\/p>\n

The creatures that the Will was facing off against at the beginning is what I’m talking about with coming up with weird and different character designs.\u00a0 It was nice to see the other worlds and characters being expanded upon.\u00a0 \u00a0I’m also looking forward to the inevitable confrontation between the Will and Prince Robot IV.\u00a0 I was also pleased to see that Gwendolyn’s character is being developed before meeting up with Marko and Alana.\u00a0 Their confrontation will have much more of an impact because it won’t be just implied as being important now.\u00a0 Now she’s more than just the angry ex-fiance and she’s a resourceful character.\u00a0 In addition, her prowess with spells was also impressive as was the Will’s knowledge of their implications.\u00a0 Lying Cat is a pretty effective sidekick.\u00a0 I thought that he was useful as a lie detector, but his battle prowess was a nice bonus.\u00a0 The plan that Gwendolyn devised was a good one in order to get the slave girl out of captivity.\u00a0 It just made the whole universe even more cohesive.\u00a0 Once again, Staples’ work was very effective at helping to tell the story.\u00a0 The expressions on some of the panels were very done such as the Stalk’s face when she didn’t like the Will’s stubble.\u00a0 Even though it was just a dream sequence, the brief appearance by the Stalk was good because it was interesting to see her in action with her multiple limbs.\u00a0 At the end of the book in the letters section, there’s a page description that was pretty funny to read. \u00a0This was another solid issue and even though none of the main characters are in it this was nothing even close to being a filler issue.\u00a0 It did a great job of expanding the world of Saga.<\/p>\n

BUT…<\/p>\n

This is just a personal preference, but I cringe when I see the Will engaging in…romantic activities with the Stalk (who has eight red eyes and half the body of a spider).\u00a0 In stating that this is my personal preference I’m not implying that this turns anyone else’s crank either.\u00a0 I hope that some further social commentary is utilized with relation to the slave girl.\u00a0 Her experience is unfortunate and sadly it’s one that exists in real life and there can never be too much awareness with relation to the issue of child exploitation.<\/p>\n

Buy It, Borrow It, Shelf Read It, or Ignore It?<\/b><\/p>\n

Buy It.\u00a0 This issue was an interlude to the main story, but it still did a lot to push the overall story forward.\u00a0 There was a lot of character building in this issue and it made the series much stronger as a result.\u00a0 The cast of characters is expanding and there is time spent building each of them up.\u00a0 I enjoyed this series from the start, but not as much as everyone else seemed to.\u00a0 However, the last few issues have really made me enjoy it a lot more.\u00a0 Vaughan and Staples continue to be a very good team creatively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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