The Saga series has been praised by fans around the globe as Vaughan’s best work yet. Vaughan whose storytelling brought comic book fans classics like Y: The Last Man (a dystopian science fiction comic series about the last man on earth) and Ex Machina (a story about the world’s first and only superhero who is elected Mayor of New York City after 9/11). We couldn’t expect anything less from writer Brian K. To the non-fantasy fan, it encapsulates the word “campy” and then some. It’s humans with TV heads, spidery monsters, unicorn women, spaceships, sex, murder, child prostitution and a fairly sizable galactic war. Because Saga is dragonfly wings and goat horns. 1 is a fantasy romance graphic novel and if you’re not open to this level of geekery, don’t bother reading further. The narration snakes again, “But ideas are fragile things.” He has curly goat horns coming out of either side of his head. The man who she is screaming at emerges from underneath her skirt in the panel below, revealing a glowing and doting soon father-to-be. And she has what looks like dragonfly wings protruding from her upper back-as not expected. Her teeth clenching together, sweat pops off her forehead and a small sentence snakes across the top of the page stating, “This is how an idea becomes real.” The reader is never fully informed on the idea, but turning the page, one can assume. 1 opens with a singular image of a woman’s face.
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