Oh, Brian K. Vaughan, your cliffhangers are so precious. Especially when you don’t have them payoff. After turning the softest of all possible cliffhangers into a hard cliffhanger last issue, Vaughan does the opposite here. He turns a hard cliffhanger into a soft one. Big yawn. To say the least. As for the resolution to…

It doesn’t take long for the Runaways to, you know, runaway. The protagonists–whose names I really can’t remember, the mom and the dad–are left with one. She’s a ghost who floats around with her intestines hanging out. Staples manages not to make it too gross, just uncomfortable. Vaughan’s pacing is once again questionable. They still…

Did Vaughan just have a Runaways crossover in Saga or is it just a coincidence? Technically I guess it’d be Staples, but whatever. This issue doesn’t have as much sci-fi, except at the beginning. The beginning has its problems though–Vaughan blows off something he took time setting up in the previous issue. He might come…

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…