What happens to a world when the Gods are out of balance, and everything starts to crumble? Do the Gods even have meaning anymore? Find out in The Sacrificers #7 from Image Comics!

THE SACRIFICERS #7

Writer:​​ Rick Remender
Artist:​​ Max Fiumara
Colorist:​ Dave McCaig
Letterer:​ Rus Wooton
Editor:​​ Harper Jaten
Publisher:​ Image Comics
Cover Price:​ $3.99
Release Date:​ April 3, 2024

Previously in The Sacrificers: In her castle on the moon, Luna and her other selves argue about which phase it is. Rokos arrives, comments on her constant bickering, and wants to know if she had anything to do with Soluna’s disappearance. He tries to make up to her so their daughter will return. She demands that he look at what he has become. Meanwhile, Soluna’s emotions are being harvested by the Caretaker. Pigeon, who was exploring the pipes, falls in, disrupting the process and setting Soluna free. They fall through a trap door landing in the spent bodies of the children who have been harvested – Pigeon recognizes Noom among them. Then the Caretaker sends the Husks to hunt them. They run until Soluna is exhausted. She wants to wait for her mother to rescue her. Pigeon is appalled to learn that she is one of the gods.

A TALE OF TWO PRINCESSES

The Sacrificers #7 opens dramatically, if depressingly, focused on a body, possibly that of Noom. The narration tells the story of a princess of Harlos, a prosperous and peaceful seaside village. She was raised not only in privilege but also knowing that her duty in life was to be a holy sacrifice. She would be helping the gods build a better world. But Harlos right now is not the idyllic village the King is used to. Storms and flooding threaten to destroy everything, and the King is angry with the gods.

He demands a summoning staff from one of his monks and summons their god, Aquatica. He demands to know what the King is thinking, summoning him. The King tells him they are about to be annihilated, despite his doing everything asked of him. Aquatica says the storm is not his doing. The King insists that he sacrificed his daughter to the Gods. He held up his half of the bargain. Aquatica recognizes that the tides are Luna’s domain. He goes out on a balcony to stand up to her, to prevent her from taking his people and destroying his city. He looks out over the ocean and sees an enormous tidal wave about to break.

The story shifts to the Husks which are hunting Soluna, and the narration tells a story about her as a Princess. She is the daughter of the Sun and the Moon, inheritor of both her mother’s melancholy and her father’s temper. Her parents were once in love, but after she was born, they fell apart, then started fighting. Luna eventually left, but before going, talked to her daughter, telling her that life goes on, that youth turns to age, that simple things become struggles. This was once an odd story for a young girl, but it comes back to Soluna as, alone in the wilderness, she struggles to survive.

Her mother talked about pushing through hardships and learning how much one is capable of doing. This can transform you. It frees you from worrying about trivial things and trying to live up to the expectations of others. This was part of Luna’s way of atoning for how she had lived her life and what she had done to others around her. Luna felt her life was broken, and all she had left was her daughter, whom she was leaving behind. But she promised that she would always be there in the sky, looking over Soluna.

TRIBULATIONS AND MEMORY

The Sacrificers #7 uses some interesting storytelling techniques, including use of the art, to open this story arc. It sets this up with the opening sequence. The narration tells the story of Noom’slife, justifying her sacrifice while the art shows what can happen when people feel betrayed. The King justified the sacrifice of his daughter because it brought about a greater good for all his people. Instead, their city is being destroyed and he lashes out in despair and frustration. Their god, Aquatica, appears passive when he listens to the King’s pleas and when he steps out to challenge Luna. But when he sees the size of the tidal wave, his eyes reveal his disbelief.

But it is Soluna’s story that is particularly compelling. While the narration talks about her past,the art shows where she is currently. The words have no meaning in the present other than by the parallels we draw and which the art suggests. While Luna talks about her own hardships, perhaps her decision to stop preying upon the lives of innocents, little did she suspect that one day her daughter would be fleeing for her life, bereft of the powers she was born with. Growing up in the palace would have its struggles, but not having to climb through thorns large enough to tear her flesh. Luna could not imagine what Soluna would face one day.

BOTTOM LINE: A DARK AND GRIPPING TALE

In The Sacrificers #7, the world is starting to implode, and it may be up to the young people to get it back on track, if that is even possible.

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Soluna has reached a rock bottom she never realized could happen to her and now must claw her way back up.

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