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“It’s not like I grow up to be some great war hero or any all-important savior but thanks to my parents at least I get to grow old. Not everyone does.”

Saga (Volume 9) by Brian K Vaughan

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Back again with another Saga installment! I can’t believe I’m almost finally caught up. What a roller coaster this series is. I saw that when this series first came out, it was billed as “Star Wars meets Game of Thrones” and I give two thumbs up to that comparison. The only thing I would clarify there is that it’s less “Star Wars meets Game of Thrones” and more “Game of Thrones set in a Star Wars-ish Universe” because every other volume has it’s own Red […]

“If we were all a little more selfish with our own lives instead of being in such a hurry to defend everything to the death the universe would be a much less scary place”

Saga (Volume 8) by Brian K Vaughan

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With a backdrop that is distinctly western, this volume starts with a wooden sign that says, “Welcome to Abortion Town!” And how you feel about that as an opening to a graphic novel (offended? jarred? intrigued) is a pretty good barometer for if you would like this series. I find it overall to be a jarring delight, but it’s not for everybody (she says, knowing she recommended it at work, and now someone she works with is reading it and she immediately had an OH […]

“The happiest families I ever met were all frayed…but they were also tighter than a hangman’s noose.”

Saga (Volume 7) by Brian K Vaughan

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I’m still a million years behind in Saga and this will be the last installment I read for 2022, which is quite the note to end on. As it’s the tale end of the holiday season and I still have Christmas on my brain, to sum up my feelings I will steal from the immortal words of Kevin McCallister as he looks at Buzz’s girlfriend’s photograph, “Woof.” This installment of the series is a doozy. Hazel has finally been reunited with her family and they […]

Not a wasted panel, and every bit as good as I’d hoped it would be

Saga (Vol. 1) by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

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As someone on the outside of the comic book world looking in, Saga has always been one of those comics (like Watchmen or Akira) that seems universally loved by fans and respected by critics. So it seems like something I should probably at least give a shot to. And, if this one book is anything to go by, it’s absolutely deserving of that framing. Alana and Marko are from two different, warring, extraterrestrial species. Marko was a prisoner, and Alana was a guard tasked with keeping him […]

“We’re all alients to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time.”

Saga (Volume 6) by Brian K Vaughan

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It’s been a while since I read Saga (June 2018 to be exact, thanks Goodreads!) so as I look for some quick reads to finish out my Cannonball (no shame in my strategy game!) I decided to get caught up on the series that really puts the GRAPHIC into graphic novels. I did a quick pass through Volume 5 as a refresher before moving ahead with volume 6 and volume 7. As I said, it’s been four years since I read this, and was briefly […]

“You’ll never understand the way the worlds really work until you surround yourself with people from all sorts of weird backgrounds.”

Saga: Volume Four by Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist)

Saga: Volume Five by Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist)

Saga: Volume Six by Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist)

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The Saga re-read continues. I’m still in love with this series. It’s rare to have humor, sorrow, wit, action, adventure, and beautiful drawings married in one text, but this is that text. Volume Four would be my sole four star rated volume, but I am refusing to grade these against themselves, they are collectively some of the best storytelling I have read and will all be given five stars, regardless of swings in execution from volume to volume. That said, while I’m sure that the plot […]



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