

A third band includes Marko’s ex, Gwendolyn, who previously teamed up with the bounty hunter, The Will, and his Lying Cat, and his adopted daughter-figure that he broke out of child prostitution, Sophie. Marko finds himself in a strange alliance with the Princeling’s father, Robot Prince IV, and a couple of lovable oddities in Ghus and Yuma. Alana, along with Hazel, and Marko’s mother are held by the android Dengo who also holds the royal baby Robot Princeling after killing the princess. They are still separated from the previous volume. None moreso than the socially abhorrent union of Alana and Marko who’re wanted by both sides. With nearly every species in the galaxy affected by war, complicated and shifting alliances and animosities set the tone. Everyone still supported the troops, of course, but in a more. Civilians finally had the luxury to concern themselves with matters beyond life or death. But as the conflict moved further into the cosmos, an unfamiliar quiet fell over the two worlds that had given birth to this bloodshed.

Before long, almost everyone in the universe had skin in the game. To augment dwindling armies, the two sides each enlisted (or outright press-ganged) foreign fighters to join their ranks. Landfall and Wreath began clashing over strategic interests far away from their own solar system. This Romeo-&-Juliet saga centers on Alana from the planet of Landfall, Marko from Landfall’s moon Wreath, and their lovechild, Hazel, who manages to tell the widely diversifying tale from some point in the distant future. Consistently and brilliantly, Fiona Staples continues to graphically represent the humor, emotions, and actions of a very diverse cast of characters.

5 of this graphic series shows the clash between the atrocities and fallout of war and the sacrifice that accompanies love.
