Brian K. Vaughn is one of those comicbook writers whose name I cannot speak without emitting a dreamy sigh after it. This is similar to the way I said “Fonzie” when I was ten. I may have to start sighing after I say the name Fiona Staples too, because she’s responsible for the fantastically dreamy art that accompanies Saga Volume 1.

Oftentimes when you start reading a new comicbook series there seems to be a lot of WTFness as you get your feet under you trying to figure out the rules of this new world you’ve entered. There was absolutely no WTF-period in Saga at all. From page one you are grounded and from there the story is off like a shot.

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