![]() Our robot-heads got a bit more development, and seeing Robot King makes even a cynical heart bleed for Robot Prince IV.Ĭan’t wait to see where we go from here. ![]() Some connections are strained, some new ones are formed. Look at that adorable umbilical power cord! Drugs and drudgery are straining this family.Īt least the artwork remains wonderfully bonkers.Īnd at the same time a new baby is thrown into the mix - a newly kidnapped royal Robot baby. Bills need to be paid, and Alana has to get a job (and gets into drugs) while Marko is a stay-at-home dad who’s feeling more and more estranged from his wife. It fills in the domestic bliss of Marko and Alana on the planet Gardenia… Oh wait. This feels like a transitional volume - and I loved it. Stupid senseless slaughter.Įxcuse me while I sit and stare for a minute. ![]() And it did so just so that it could stab me in the back. With all the humor and cuteness and seeming normality and domesticity even of the most outrageous characters this story has lulled me into a false sense of security. Shit is, dear humans and androids, getting undeniably real. Trust me, you’re thankful I covered up that space junk.Īnd the SUBVERSIVE trashy space romance book turns out to be the true Chekhov’s gun. And space genitals which my eyes can’t unsee. There are monstrously sized space alien genitals (because why the hell not, apparently?).Īnd grief, and loss, and love, and parenthood. Thong-clad space brothel madams fail to keep a contracted killer from saving a six-year-old from sex slavery. Planetoids hatch into creepy giant Space Oddyssey 2001-like fetuses. It’s still full of delightfully dark humor. Because there’s no way I won’t want to finish. ![]() That was the moment I got the entire series. It’s delightfully weird, R-rated and very funny. It’s irreverent, silly, full of body-humor and bursting with self-aware ridiculousness.Īnd yeah. Admittedly, it took me a few pages to get used to needing to also look at the art instead of just focusing on words, but once I got the hang of it, it paid off. ✅ The banter - the entire book is basically just banter, which works very well in this format. Hazel provides background narration which I choose to imagine in Bladerunner-like voiceover. And the entire universe is obsessed with killing this loving couple and getting their hands on the first cross-species baby. Alana is a fan of a trashy space romance book - but a SUBVERSIVE one, clearly. Instead of murdering each other they decide to get together and procreate, creating baby Hazel, whose birth opens the series. Synopsis: two aliens - Alana and Marko - belong to two warring factions in a galactic war. I owed this to Dennis - a solemn promise made when I insisted that he read Stephen King’s The Waste Lands, the book that I loved and he read all wrong □.Īnd because unlike the hordes of long-suffering fans who have been awaiting for Volume 10 for years (!!!) I have the privilege of reading them all as a binge (because yes, I already got them all), I’ll be posting my thoughts here, as I go (under spoiler tags because it’s LONG! Because 1300 comic book pages!!!!) With the exception of Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood which I read for a college class back in 2004, this is my first foray into the land of comic books. And, in the midst of all that, overpowering adorable cuteness, vulnerability and love.Īnd then it rips your heart into shreds. Plus copious swearing, gratuitous nudity, well-aimed violence. The story that focuses of people in the middle of ridiculous senseless war and breaks your heart without thinking twice. Insane space opera with breathtaking artwork. Irreverently funny and achingly heartbreaking. Final rating: 5 unflinchingly heartbreaking stars. Reviewing as I go: “Saga”, 1300+ pages of comics.
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