Saga is, without doubt, one of the best comics running at the moment. It is written amazingly, the characters, specifically Alana and Marko are so likable and human that it really makes the series more exciting. Their relationship has been crafted and written so honestly and how the couple talk and seem to know each other so well it feels very real. The humuor is actually funny, (something I find is rare in comics), a which only makes the audience like them more. Their story (two soldiers from opposite wides of a war that neither want a part off) are trying to escape escape the planet with their new born baby (who is the narrator of the story), is only one of three in the first volume.
What else Saga does magnificently, is really doesn't have good and evil characters. Purely all the characters are just trying to survive in this violent universe, for example, another of the characters story (Will) and his cat that can tell when people are lying, is a bounter hunter hired to pursue the couple. All these stories happen while also slowly explaining and introducing this world and the politics waging inside it, and the audience likes all the characters, despite them being against each other.
The design work is completly different to anything I have ever seen before, lying between anthropomophic fantasy and Sci Fi. Initailly some of the designs seem very strage but because the world is so well crafted and the characters so engaging the reader is quickly absorbed into this world and accept them as how diverse this universe is.
The series has been very carfeuly considered, in terms of the universe they inhabit, how the characters and their personalities have been written and how unique the series is through being so different to anything else out there.
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