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But some lives ARE truncated... That's life. To me it's more about how the death serves the story. Even if only to show that sometimes death is random and meaningless. (So far as Saga goes, as the narrator and center of the story, Hazel has always been the main character and I'm honestly surprised she's kept both parents this long!)

Concluded but not truncated, that's a great way of putting it.

Sharpes: That means a lot to me! I do my very best every day and just having a few people along for the ride who enjoy what I'm doing keeps me going. Thank you :) I don't really know much about Saga, but it's not my way to talk bad about any comic out there. We're all doing the best we know how to do. RJ: Character death has to be treated really carefully. Yes, it's realistic that people die, but fiction is art, and art redeems reality. A major character death needs to have some purpose, needs to be satisfying and to fulfil an arc. I think you can kill mooks and flavour characters all day and all night, but taking someone away in whom the reader has invested in emotionally should have a purpose. There are some major deaths in this story and they are not too far off, but they're not truncations of those characters' lives; they are conclusions. At least I hope you'll see them that way :) Anyway, thank you for following along and for always having such insightful comments!

Ashley

I'll be more Blunt about Saga: He just makes stupid, stupid story telling decisions. You can't over use a trope, no matter how powerful. The trope of Killing Off Likeable Characters™ can only work so many times before it gets tedious and he passed over use deep into irrelevance a long time ago. By the time he killed off the main character (Marko) I could care less. Ashley on the other hand, while telling a very dark story, never over uses tropes. That means you can emotionally invest in characters while knowing they will probably(maybe) meet a dark end and be ecstatic if they don't. Just masterful storytelling.

I'm frightened. When Prakhuta laughs like that, good (or at least likeable) people are probably suffering. And when illustrious illustrator and wonderous world-weaver Ashley Cope gives us a warning like that one (the first I've seen in my twenty-months on Team Unsounded), it's even scarier than the laughing lizard. *frets* BTW, thinking of being pissed off at comics reminded me of Saga, and I keep meaning to mention that, for me, Unsounded surpassed Saga some time ago (and NOT because Saga pissed me off; some bad things that I didn't like happened, but I trust the storytellers. I just overall am more invested in the Unsounded world and it's denizens than I am in the Saga universe). Anyway, if there was just one comic in the world that I could read, it would be Unsounded. No hesitation. I wish that it was more widely known. It certainly deserves as much attention as anything else being produced right now.

Maybe the silver went into the Khert... :-o

Reed Copperstrand