They are not scared to make big decisions, kill important characters and break the reader's heart. As a result, no matter who is winning the reader ends up heartbroken.Īnd that's my favourite thing about Saga: how ballsy it is. This unusual way of alternating sides makes the reader rooting for everyone, even though the characters are working against each other. I have fallen in love with every single character and what's interesting about this story is that we follow both the main protagonists and their antagonists (or what would traditionally be the comic book villains if you will). But oh boy, was it worth the wait!Īfter 54 issues the story has really come a long way and it was in this volume that the complexities of each story arc culminated to an explosive mid-point. I started reading Saga almost two years ago, but because I took the decision to only read it in the form of these collected editions and not the individual issues or volumes (just because I like my graphic novels chunky), I have been waiting for this for over a year.
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The Windy City was out of control, he told Bloomberg, something that dawned on him after a colleague made a coffee run and was robbed by a thief who put “a gun to his head.” Last September, billionaire Ken Griffin announced he was pulling up stakes and moving Citadel-his gigantic hedge fund-from Chicago to Miami. I don't like Disney for a variety of reasons. So I am careful not to correct their play unless it is hurtful to one of them. Grampa died in 2007 and their Grama is 75 years old already. I haven't corrected them because I know they are processing the possibility. I'm not quite sure how it all goes but this is what they call it. They take turns being a good grama to each other and then grama dies. They also play a "Dead Grama Game." I'm not sure why they call it this since they are usually pretending to do all the fun stuff they do with their Grama. 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Previous seasons of the show have taken their shots at scandals inspired by Bernie Madoff and Blackwater this final season ups the ante by conflating a banking scam with the murky legality of a WikiLeaks-like website. They’re the real master manipulators, not Patty, who in the second episode of the season tricks Ellen into removing a judge who’s actually on her side. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, and Daniel Zelman are known for their red herrings. This scene, after all, is one of the show’s many flash-forwards (three months into the future), and while it certainly looks as if Ellen is dead, pushed from the roof of a building, possibly at Patty’s behest, creators Todd A. “If she’s missing,” says Patty, staring them down with a cruel-looking poker face, “I guess we’ll never get a chance to find out.” Those tuning in for the fifth and final season of Damages, however, can rest assured that they will. Her former protégée, Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne), now her courtroom rival, has gone missing, and the detectives want to know what she was going to say. The legendarily ruthless Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) has been hauled out of her apartment in handcuffs and is under interrogation. |