Saga, Issue #43 comes to you at the blindingly cheap price of $0.25; it starts a new arc and briefly recaps the series for people reading it for the first time. In Issue #42, Alana gets kicked in the stomach, and the baby is pretty much dead. Alana will die if the baby isn't removed, but there are two problems. She's eight months pregnant - and the baby still has a beating heart - so local laws don't allow an abortion. Also, any abortion she does have will expose her half-Landfalian/half-Wreathian child to the world.
Saga doesn't shy away from controversy, but it still remains a great comic. The abortion laws mirror those of Ireland, where a woman can't get an abortion for any reason while the unborn fetus still has a beating heart. Baby and mother going to die? Let 'em die, even if they aren't Catholic, even if they aren't Irish citizens. I wrote about queer theory in my last review, and there's a trans character traveling with the family. Hazel, Marco and Alana's daughter, asks the trans character about her penis, for instance.
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