![]() ![]() As far as I can tell, the pages aren’t numbered in this book, so here’s what might be page 76 to give you some inkling of the book’s style. My general policy, when blogging about books, to pay attention to a single page (usually page 76, chosen arbitrarily because that’s my age) probably makes even more sense when the book is a comic, given my lack of visual vocabulary. There’s another Terrible Thing on the last pages of this volume, which gives me hope for a revitalised Volume 11. One major plot point just … happens, though maybe I missed some subtle foreshadowing. Hazel, the child at the centre of it all, is three years older, and less interesting because of it. The gratuitous naked breasts are more perfunctory. A Terrible Thing happened at the end of Volume 9, and though the characters have had three years to adjust, it feels as if they all have that much less spark. Sadly, it looks as if the story has run out of puff a bit. ![]() This Romeo and Juliet space opera has been going for nearly ten years and you’re welcome to read my previous blog posts. I won’t try to summarise the Story So Far. But delighted is not too strong a word for my reaction when the Comics experts at Kinokuniya told me the hiatus had ended and monthly comics Nº 55–60 had been collected to make Volume 10. ![]() It would be overstating it to say I was devastated when Saga went on hiatus ‘for a year’ after volume 9 in 2018 and then stayed out for three years. ![]()
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