Hazel has her first kiss with one of the denizens of the comet, and her babysitter Izabel has, much to Hazel’s consternation, gone missing.

They end up staying six months, during which time IV confronts his guilt over how he has lived his life, Marko struggles to maintain his pacifism, and Alana is ever more heavily pregnant.

an exotic land of boundless diversity, home to thousands of different tribes, sects, and species. As Hazel, with her usual trenchant powers of observation, characterized this place: Unfortunately, they need to stop and refuel at the nearest source of power, which is the dangerous war-torn comet Phang. We’re lots of fragile little strands, and we survive by becoming hopelessly intertwined with each other.” “If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, then a family is more like a ROPE. Petrichor, who was sort of “adopted” by Hazel when they were in prison together, has also reluctantly become a part of this odd but increasingly bonded family. Prince Robot IV is traveling with them in order to get back to his young son.

The three of them are currently on a ship racing from those who seek to kill them, but they are not alone. There is an ongoing intergalactic hunt for Marko and Alana, because their love story gives lie to the party line that the people from these two species can’t, and never will, get along, and that their offspring would not be viable. Hazel was born with both horns and wings, and it is Hazel who narrates the story. The two defied all convention (and propaganda, viz: those people have horns on their heads!) and fell in love. The family is struggling to stay together in spite of a war between their two races.Īlana is from the planet Landfall, where inhabitants have wings on their backs, and Marko is from its moon, Wreath, where all people have horns on their heads. This outstanding graphic novel series, often referred to as a “space opera,” continues the story of the little family of Marko and Alana – a mixed-race couple – and their daughter Hazel.

Saga, Volume 7 by Brian K. Vaughan