This is a love story. This is a story about fathers and sons. This is a story about families. This is a story about war and peace. This is a story about tree spaceships and magic aliens and talking cats. Volume 1 of Saga introduced us to all the characters: Marko and Alana and their newborn child, who are being hunted as traitors and miscegenators across the universe by both sides of a never-ending galactic war; killer for hire The Will and his truth-telling cat; […]
Hi, I love you.
omg omg omg omg omg omg OMG WHAT DID I JUST READ. It’s like somebody reached into my subconscious, pulled out a bunch of things I think are awesome, then added some really weird and unexpected stuff on top of that, and finally topped it all off by illustrating the whole thing with beautiful, wildly colorful pictures. Like, everyone ever has said that Saga is awesome, but you really don’t have a feel for what that means until you actually read it for yourself. I’ve […]
Moar Lying Cat!!!
The problem with getting addicted to an ongoing series like Saga is that you wait for MONTHS for the next volume to come out, and once it does…you wait for the library to get it, you wait your turn with ferocious impatience, you place TWO different holds, because the library codes it weird in the system, and then you finally get it and read it in an hour. And are seriously depressed afterwards. This may or may not be based on true incidents. Saga’s fifth […]
It just keeps being awesome, you guys
Saga is my favourite comic book of the last few years and I feel like I do nothing but spend my days waiting for a new trade paperback to come out. I managed to save volume five for an unprecedented nine days from buying it until I actually read it, because I know that it’ll probably be another six months at least until I get more. The writing is flawless, the art is breathtaking. The plot is never, even for a second, predictable. The six […]