Saga Volume Four

Hazel is now a toddler, and her parents Alana and Marko are trying to live an ordinary life on Gardenia. Alana takes a job with an underground acting troupe. Marko, meanwhile, becomes close to the owner of a dance studio, and the strain between the two grows.

Away from Gardenia, Prince Robot IV recovers on Sextillion. A desperate custodian has taken his infant son, and he sets out to find the boy.

This collected volume gathers issues #19 to #24 of the ongoing space-opera comic series. It shifts the action to new planets and brings in new adversaries, but the mood turns more domestic than in earlier volumes, centred on a marriage under pressure and on parents of small children.

Voters at Goodreads named it their 2015 favorite in the graphic novels and comics category. The story continues from earlier volumes and reads best after the first three. Here the family's troubles move steadily toward a breaking point.