From Goodreads:When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe.
From bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan, Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. Fantasy and science fiction are wed like never before in this sexy, subversive drama for adults.
Collecting: Saga 1-6
Collecting the epic second storyline of the smash hit series Entertainment Weekly called "the kind of comic you get when truly talented superstar creators are given the freedom to produce their dream comic." Thanks to her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana, newborn baby Hazel has already survived lethal assassins, rampaging armies, and alien monstrosities, but in the cold vastness of outer space, the little girl encounters her family's greatest challenge yet: the grandparents.
Collects Saga #7-12.
From the Hugo Award-winning duo of Brian K. Vaughan (The Private Eye, Y: The Last Man) and Fiona Staples (North 40, Red Sonja), Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. Searching for their literary hero, new parents Marko and Alana travel to a cosmic lighthouse on the planet Quietus, while the couple's multiple pursuers finally close in on their targets.
Collecting: Saga 13-18.
Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. As they visit a strange new world and encounter even more adversaries, baby Hazel finally becomes a toddler, while her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana struggle to stay on their feet.
Collecting: Saga 19-24
Multiple storylines collide in this cosmos-spanning new volume. While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies.
Collecting: Saga 25-30
After a dramatic time jump, the three-time Eisner Award winner for Best Continuing Series continues to evolve, as Hazel begins the most exciting adventure of her life: kindergarten. Meanwhile, her star-crossed family learns hard lessons of their own.
Collects SAGA #31-36
From the worldwide bestselling team of Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan, "The War for Phang" is an epic, self-contained Saga event! Finally reunited with her ever-expanding family, Hazel travels to a war-torn comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling over for ages. New friendships are forged and others are lost forever in this action-packed volume about families, combat and the refugee experience.
Collects Saga #37-42
After the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions embark on a life-changing adventure at the westernmost edge of the universe.
Collecting: Saga 43-48.
The multiple Eisner Award-winning series returns with a spacefaring adventure about fake news and genuine terror. Get ready for the most shocking, most impactful SAGA storyline yet.
Collects SAGA #49-54
My Review:
Oh, man, it was so great to read this story! I've heard such great things about it, and I got prompted to read it, so yeah, I picked it up, and couldn't put it down. It was such a wild ride, so much sex and violence, and heavy topics-and centered around a family, just trying to survive! It's such a great read!
I really enjoyed following Marko and Alana, and baby Hazel, and watching snippets of her life, watching her grow up. There was a huge cast of characters, some of whom only briefly interacted, or interacted with others, but there needed to be, given that there is this huge war, the reason why the family is on the run, and how many people are killed.
There's a lot of moral questions that come up, about peace and war and violence, as well as other topics like abortion, and the ends justifying the means. There are some characters that I hate-like The Will, because he just doesn't learn. Ianthe, too, because she killed Sweet Boy, and that's utterly unforgiveable. And then there's others like Robot Prince IV, who I didn't like as a character-but his one liners were spectacular!
I do kinda wish that we'd get the translations of the Blue Language (real life Esperanto), because sometimes what my searches came up with didn't quite make sense. And I was going back and forth between tabs before changed things up and was doing the translation on my phone. It slowed down the reading experience.
There are so many brutal moments, so many characters that we come to care for, only for them to be pretty brutally murdered. Like the end of Volume 9, in issue 54. It makes me feel bad for those that were reading it in real time-the wait will be over 3 years for seeing what happens next, and that has to be brutal! Mine is going to be less then a year, it looks like!
Loved reading these stories, and I'm so excited for when it'll come back!
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Illustrated by Fiona Staples
Series: Saga #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Read: June 29th, 29th, 29th, 29th, 29th, 29th, 29th, 29th, 29th, 2021
Source: Online
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2021 Books!
Publisher: Image Comics
Published: October 10th 2012, June 19th 2013, March 19th 2014, December 17th 2014, September 9th 2015, June 29th 2016, March 29th 2017, December 27th 2017, October 2nd 2018
Saga, Volume 1:
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Saga, Volume 2:
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Saga, Volume 3:
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Saga, Volume 4:
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Saga, Volume 5:
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Saga, Volume 6:
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Saga, Volume 7:
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Saga, Volume 8:
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