Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Saga, Vol. 4 by Brian K. Vaughan

15 reviews

directorpurry's review

adventurous emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Gore, Murder, Violence, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Racism, and Cursing

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Slavery

krispy_reading's review

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Ghüs, Friendo, Lying Cat, Sweet Boy, Hazel, and Sophie. Must protect them at all costs.

Loving the character interactions and found family aspects.

The sexual content and crude dialogue can be a little much at times.

Spoiler

I’m over seeing The Will having sexual flashbacks with The Stalk. Unless, she isn’t actually dead. But we get it, they hooked up a lot and he has mixed feelings.

 

Robot King reveal made me laugh.

Spoiler

his head is a giant flat screen TV and it was playing Niagara Falls footage. A full page spread too.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Gore and Kidnapping

Spoiler

the first page of the book is a close up of an android being born out of a android vagina. Shocking, yes. But if you read the previous books, then you know how wild the story and images are.

little_red_reads's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I love how the Saga series doesn't shy away from the horrors of love and new parenthood. It's equal part love, humour, and gore (just like life!) All wrapped up in an epic adventure across the universe, between warring races who make us reflect on our own flaws as a society (as good sci-fi does!) Love this series and highly reccomend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

tree_branch's review

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Death of parent, Death, and Violence

rlgreen91's review

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I'll be honest, I was a little nervous about the introduction of another storyline. I know that from a genre perspective, comics and graphic novels are supposed to be a great medium for having parallel storylines that intersect only at the author's desire - that it can all be connected or not at all. Still, it seemed a bit risky given that while we had definitely come to a stopping point in other storylines, we had not actually come to their conclusion. But the twist and integration into the overarching plot worked very well - I'm intrigued to see what happens when our heroes arrive at this destination. Well, maybe heroes is a stretch, and they still have to find their destination, if they actually can, but you get what I mean. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, War, Drug use, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gore, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, and Trafficking

tspice24's review

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death, Addiction, Drug use, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Domestic abuse and Pregnancy

dreareads_'s review

5.0

I hated this volume and I adored this volume. 

Watching your favorite family grow apart hurts but it was so wonderfully done.

Spoiler

watching Alana go through drug addiction was harrowing, I wanted to grab her and just shake her. Watching her destroy her life and relationship was heartbreaking

Marko my sweet man, I just want all good things to happen to him. Baby Hazel is so freaking cute! 

Also this comic is so freaking funny. My favorite panel has to be our introduction to the TV king lmao. 

I cannot wait to read Volume 5 asap.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Abandonment, Addiction, Body horror, Drug use, Murder, War, Infidelity, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Violence, and Kidnapping

marissasa's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This volume picks up after a little time skip, and I really like that choice as the progression felt natural. It was very fun to see Hazel a little bit older, speaking and walking around as a toddler now and interacting with the world around her more. I also loved how the conflicts started with general married spouse arguments, tension rising, until the stakes suddenly spiked again by the end of the volume with a big cliffhanger ending. We are essentially following 3 different groups of characters and their storylines, but seeing how they are tied together and how they inevitably clash is the thrilling and juicy part. I have come to love almost all of the diverse cast of characters and am just speeding through these comics because I can't wait for more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Alcohol, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Vomit, Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Violence, War, Addiction, Blood, and Infidelity

dekilein's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, War, Sexual content, Drug abuse, and Drug use

martereadsbooks's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, and War

Moderate: Stalking, Sexual content, Murder, Hate crime, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Addiction