Saga, Issue #42 is the series in a dark place. Alana, Marko, Prince Robot IV, Hazel, and the rest are getting ready to flee the comet they've been living on for the past year or so because the comet is on a course with a time suck which will most likely destroy it and everything on it. They've grown to have friends on that comet, have a life. They try to fit all their friends on their tree-ship, but the patriarch of the family convinces the rest that the Lord will protect them or some stupid shit like that.
Saga suffers from the same problem that Stephen King's The Stand suffered from during its writing: too many characters. Brian K. Vaughan might be emulating King's solution: killing off half the characters. While King killed off characters that he didn't know what to do with, which is a somewhat lazy but effective way of writing, Vaughan culls characters we all love, that all the characters love. It's painful, especially the last four pages of the comic, which are left black on purpose.
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