I'm reviewing two graphic novels at once here. Volume 1 I read this past summer as part of the Hugo Nominee packet (it won in its category! Yay!). Volume 2 finally showed up at the library this past week. YAY!
Jacket Blurb Volume 1 (Saga issues #1-6) -
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 New York Times bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina) and critically acclaimed artist Fiona Staples (Mystery Society, North 40), 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.
Jacket Blurb Volume 2 (Saga issues #7-11)
The smash-hit ongoing
epic continues! 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 something truly frightening: her
grandparents!LOVING these! The concept is refreshing, the artwork a combination of bold/subtle/grotesque/imaginative/colorful, the humor and wit delightful. I love how the artist can convey so much in just a look from one of the characters. The story is being told from the point of the baby, who is speaking from a future self. Several readings are a must just to capture everything going on. Definitely adult themes in these, which had the Husband wondering just what the heck I was reading. I offered to let him read Vol 1 but the bit he saw maxed out his Weird-o-Meter.
If you like the strange and humorous, this might be for you.
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