Have you ever seen Krull or Legend? I feel like Brian K. Vaughan’s seen both and figured he could do something better. So far, Saga is a galaxy-trotting sci-fi comic with fantasy elements (most of the alien races seem to have their basis in traditional fantasy) and Vaughan’s biting modern humor. There’s a bounty hunter who gets an unlimited AmEx card but he’s also got a magical cat for detecting liars.
Oh, and a unicorn woman hires him.
It’s an oversized issue, which introduces us to the narrator–the baby of the two protagonists, a fairy girl and a guy with horns–and the some of the supporting cast. There’s the bounty hunter and then a robot prince with a TV for a head and some performance issues.
Fiona Staples’s art has personality and Vaughan’s having fun.
Saga‘s either different or gives a great impression of being so.
CREDITS
Writer, Brian K. Vaughan; artist and colorist, Fiona Staples; letterers, Steven Finch and Staples; editor, Eric Stephenson; publisher, Image Comics.
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