Saga

[Dark-Flux]

No real exposure to the rest of Vaughns work (outside his UXM run) but am loving the heck outta Saga each month. Great book!

[Dodsy]

It's the title Ilook forward to most each month then when I'm finished I look at everything else I've just baught and think "why can't you all be this good" lol.

Plus it's the only monthly my wife reads which is a bonus.

[dweezil2]

Took me a while to really get into the vibe of Saga. But I'm glad I stuck with it, it's a great read and the art's fantastic too!

[Link Prime]

Great to see so much love for Saga- its truly deserving IMO.
3 best comics in the world right now; 2000AD, Prophet & Saga.

I picked up a spare BKV signed copy of Saga issue 1 from Midtown a few months ago for a fiver- its in the 'Treasure Chest'!

[Spicy Biscuit]

It's on my mile long backlog. 

[Danbell]

As on-going narritives, Y: The lasy Man was exceptional, despite it tendancies to vere off on tangents. Ex Machina lost its way but I think Saga has a very strong start, I look forward to seeing how it pans out.

Along side Amazing Spiderman it's one of the only comics I look forawrd to as there are surprises and intruigue in store. 

[radiator]

Gave this a spin, but unfortunately I was rolling my eyes repeatedly even in the first few pages. I mean, come on - the dialogue is teeth-gnashingly awful in places. Someone in a sci-fi/fantasy universe where intergalactic travel and magic co-exist is downloading an App to their smartphone? What is this shit?

Also, I'm no prude - the sex stuff doesn't offend me and very little shocks me anymore - but frankly I think it falls head-first into the trap so many comics (and games) do nowadays in aiming so desperately to be 'mature', and overshooting and landing on 'cringe-inducingly juvenile'. So many current comic writers seem incapable of restraint - and simply rely on (attempts at) shocking people, rather than trying to do something truly impressive - ie telling a compelling, engaging story without the old crutches of strong language, sex, violence etc. Anyone else think comics as a whole were better when there were still limits on what you could say/show? Maybe that's why I love 2000ad so much - it places good old-fashioned quality over empty spectacle and sensationalism.

Nice art, though.

[sheldipez]

Gave this a spin, but unfortunately I was rolling my eyes repeatedly even in the first few pages. I mean, come on - the dialogue is teeth-gnashingly awful in places. Nice art, though.

^Pretty much my thought when I checked out the first issue. Nice art but I didn't like pretty much everything else going on.

[radiator]

I think you could easily level the same accusations about Preacher, which I love (but perhaps wouldn't like as much if I discovered it now, as opposed to when I was 15, but anyway).

But to me - for all his excesses - Garth Ennis can write convincing, warm dialogue that could actually pass for how people in the real world - or at least in novels, TV or movies - speak. Same goes for Brian Azzarello's 100 Bullets, which has really sparky dialogue that has a real authenticity and rhythm to it, despite being quite obviously noir-influenced. Both writers have the skill to be able to write lenghty, engaging scenes that consist of little more than talking heads - which is rare - especially in comics.

To me writers like Mark Millar, Robert Kirkman and Brian Vaughn are just incapable of writing naturalistic dialogue, and this just utterly capsizes their work from the get-go. If you can't convince me that two characters are having a conversation, you're not going to convince me of anything else.

[Professor Bear]

I have found Saga to be awesome if read while baked off your ass, though you may find the Telebugs' cocks follow you around the room.

[Colin YNWA]

Well I'm a little in the middle. Didn't hate it, didn't love it. Though at times it was infuriating.

I think the biggest problem it has is its trying so hard to be different and interesting. There's a lot of really nice alien designs and some okay ideas, but all the characters were a bit flat and frankly are quite bland. There's no sense of the different species being different. That might be the idea, we're all people and all that, but just felt a little laboured, for no reward. At times in trying to be different it felt cliche in the extreme.

There were chunks of the plot that didn't really hang together and it said nothing about parenthood to me.

All that said it looked pretty good and was quite the page turner. It entertained without offering anything of real substance, however hard it tried. Mind it was a chunk of comics for a good price. If the second volume has a similar pricing structure I can see myself giving it another go but over all all so much Walking Dead to me. A lot of hype, no real substance, airport fiction in comics form.

[Professor Bear]

With Vaughn, it usually helps to discern the major influences and not buy into the unhelpful hype surrounding him that suggests his strength is in innovation rather than an ability to create a functional property from a series of homages.  Runaways is much more enjoyable if you think of it as Power Pack by way of Buffy, for instance, and Saga is basically Final Fantasy (or any latter JRPG) viewed through a Game of Thrones filter.