I haven't reviewed every Saga volume, but this one hit me like 50 tonnes of bricks, so here's a little one.

After finally uniting together again, the Hazel family is in search of safe harbor in a galaxy that continues to want to murder them. With their tree ship's fuel running low, they are forced to stop on Phang, a comet on which the war between the Landfall Wings and the Moon Horns has also spread. Little do they know that this is the battleground Gwendolyn and Sophie are testing their ability to end the war on.

With Vaughan and Staples' usual polish, shine, and revelry, this volume dares to ask which is the greatest tragedy: the loss of family members, the loss of millions of unknown people, the loss of a home, or the loss of a relationship cut short too soon. The answer is all of them. Though I needed hot chocolate and cookies ASAP as soon as I finished this volume, the keen, stabbing tragedy in any and all loss of life is an important message and masterfully portrayed here. It felt especially important in a comic series that is kinda glib about gore and death usually. Readers might have become desensitized by the sheer consistent excess. This volume reminds us that a soul-cutting atrocity is still a soul-cutting atrocity, no matter who it happens to or if it's the first or thousandth time it's happened. Overall, Saga continues to be compelling, sobering, and beautiful.