Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Saga, Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan

23 reviews

flamesocks's review

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide, Abortion, Cursing, Violence, Death, Gore, Murder, Death of parent, and War

biancareadsbooks's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Violence, and Trafficking

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

cephalopodspy's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Racism, Xenophobia, Death, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia, Child death, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Pregnancy, and Trafficking

halfbloodprincess_hogwarts's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

So I read this in one sitting and could not put this down! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, Body horror, Death of parent, Grief, Blood, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Sexual content, War, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Confinement, Slavery, and Genocide

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

rhi_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Gun violence, War, Xenophobia, Body horror, Gore, Death of parent, Blood, Violence, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual content, and Trafficking

beccabookworm's review

adventurous dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

This second volume gives more backstory into how we ended up where we are. It tells us a little about Marko’s past and his relationship with his parents, a very brief Sparknotes version of Marko and Alana’s relationship before she got pregnant, and a bit of Prince Robot IV’s combat past.

I wouldn’t call this a filler because important things do happen and important characters are introduced and expanded upon, but it does feel like a volume meant to provide context and depth, and primarily to set up what’s to come next. Put everyone where they need to be to move the story along. 

I still very much enjoyed it and am so excited to continue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Gun violence, Death, Body horror, War, Death of parent, and Animal death

krispy_reading's review

adventurous emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Marko’s mom is intense. 

I’m not a cat person, but I love Lying Cat. 

Spoiler

Just when you think The Stalk is back, nope. Also, Gwendolyn is MAD, I wonder what happened in their relationship.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, and Cursing

Minor: Trafficking and Child abuse

dodie_sullivan's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: War, Death, Gun violence, and Murder

Minor: Suicide

laemonvtea's review

adventurous dark funny sad 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Death of parent, Death, Gore, Gun violence, and Violence

the_greywarren's review

adventurous dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

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

4.0

Re-read to prepare for Vol. 10
I feel like this one is a pretty neutral volume on the whole, we mostly just get introduced to a lot of characters and Marco and Alana's history as well as setting everything up for the future storylines, and it also had some good foreshadowing, but overall not a huge standout in the entire series.
Still, and excellent comic as always. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, War, Body horror, Gore, Murder, Cursing, Racism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Terminal illness