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Saga Volume 1 Paperback – 23 October 2012

by Brian K Vaughan (Author), Fiona Staples (Contributor)

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Romeo & Juliet meets Star Wars in this sexy, subversive fantasy and sci-fi space opera about star-crossed lovers from enemy worlds.

An epic for mature readers, SAGA is the story of Hazel, a child born to star-crossed parents from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war. Now, Hazel's fugitive family must risk everything to find a peaceful future in a harsh universe that values destruction over creation.

The multiple award-winning, critically acclaimed masterpiece and one of the most iconic, bestselling comic book series of its time begins here in the first volume collecting issues #1-6.

"The kind of comic that you get when truly talented superstar creators are given the freedom to produce their dream comic." --Entertainment Weekly

"An unwieldy, profane, and glorious ode to compassion and equality." --The Atlantic

"A little bit Romeo & Juliet and a lot Star Wars." --USA Today

"Mischievous, vulgar and gloriously inventive." --TIME Magazine

"May it run for 1,000 issues." --Rolling Stone Magazine

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"Saga is the space fantasy comic of our times." -- "--BookRiot"

"An unwieldy, profane, and glorious ode to compassion and equality... a sprawling tale that shuffles the beats of numerous genres, including pulp romance, road trip, Western, dark comedy, and political thriller. And much of Saga focuses less on prejudice and more on smaller-scale pains that can be devastating in their own right."-- "--The Atlantic"

"The humanity that BKV [Brian K. Vaughan] imbues on his characters is rich and relatable, and the danger that surrounds them is fierce and ever present."-- "--IGN"

"The kind of comic that you get when truly talented superstar creators are given the freedom to produce their dream comic...Saga is Heavy Metal eclecticism synthesized into a singular, sprawling narrative a la Cerberus or The Walking Dead--a vast sandbox built for neverending castle-building."-- "--Entertainment Weekly"

"There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who are reading Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples amazing adult scifi/fantasy Image comic Saga, and those who haven't yet. The former people are leading happier, fuller lives, because Saga is amaaaaaazzzing."-- "--io9/Gizmodo"

"Vaughan's whip-snap dialogue is as smart, cutting, and well timed as ever, and his characters are both familiar enough to acclimate easily to and deep enough to stay interested in as their relationships bend, break, and mend. While Vaughan will be the star power that attracts readers, do-it-all artist Staples is going to be the one who really wows them. Her character designs dish out some of the best aliens around, the immersive world-crafting is lushly detailed and deeply thought through, and the spacious layouts keep the focus squarely on the personal element, despite the chaotic cosmos they inhabit. Add another winner to Vaughan's stable of consistently epic, fresh, and endearing stories."-- "--Booklist (starred review)"

"Vaughan's witty dialogue is laced with universal commonalities--the sharp fingernails of babies, burping techniques, love--that ground the alien nature of the characters and heighten the sense that the war between planet and moon and the hatred between enemies is tragically pointless. Staples's character designs are fantastic--even the weirdest aliens reveal human emotion--and her two-page spreads, whether of battle or of tree-grown rocket ships, are glorious. This is a completely addictive, human story that will leave readers desperately awaiting the next volume."-- "--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"

"While the book works as a poignant love story and an indictment of prejudice, trippy visuals and clever dialog make this Romeo and Juliet space opera a lot of fun as well." -- "--Library Journal"

About the Author

Brian K. Vaughan is the Eisner and Hugo Award-winning writer/co-creator of multiple critically acclaimed series including Saga, Paper Girls, and Y: The Last Man, as well as the upcoming graphic novel Spectators with artist Niko Henrichon, who he last collaborated with on Pride of Baghdad. Vaughan lives with his family in Los Angeles, where he occasionally dabbles in film and television, though he's always happiest making comics.

Fiona Staples is a Canadian comic book artist known for her work on books such as North 40, DV8: Gods and Monsters, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents and Saga

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Image Comics (23 October 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1607066017
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1607066019
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 years and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.83 x 0.76 x 25.88 cm

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Brian K. Vaughan is the Eisner Award-winning writer of Y: THE LAST MAN, EX MACHINA, RUNAWAYS, and PRIDE OF BAGHDAD. His newest work, with artist/co-creator Fiona Staples, is SAGA, an ongoing sci-fi/fantasy series from Image Comics that The Onion's A.V. Club called, "the emotional epic Hollywood wishes it could make." Vaughan lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a writer and producer on various film and tv projects, including three seasons on the hit series LOST.
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Mandy Abela
Great Graphic Novel
Reviewed in Australia on 26 July 2018
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This is my 2nd time reading Vol 1, and it’s still as enjoyable as the 1st. What a crazy concept!

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Deso
Great read
Reviewed in Australia on 20 February 2019
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Awesome, a great read

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Sarah
Great read!
Reviewed in Australia on 13 March 2017
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Humorous, witty and a little dark, and very strange.

Honestly, I had only heard about Saga a few hours ago and decided I wanted to read it purely for its high ratings. Little did I know what I just stumbled into. This was an awesome read, unlike anything I've read before. I loved everything about it, the baby narrator, badass parents, lying cat, weird robot sex, somewhat heroic murderer???, attached ghost baby sitter, tree rocket... I don't think I need to list it all, oh and I chuckled at the ending.

I just wish it was longer and gave me just a little more for the first book in the series.
4.5 stars

Recommended for mature readers due to intense sexual content, violence and profanity. Probably not for young kids but older teens may enjoy! (parental permission advised)

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Jake Noffke
Love it! ... I just LOVE it! Gimme more! I'm sick of waiting for the next volume!!!!!!!!
Reviewed in Australia on 15 April 2018
As far as I know - SAGA is the most fantastic comic-book series ever written!
Part STAR WARS, part GAME of THRONES.
Great characters, great story, great artwork.

WARNING: High level sexual themes and graphic nudity (including a giant lizard with and even bigger erection).

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Great original graphic novel
Reviewed in Australia on 3 February 2019
Very original, great art, engaging characters.

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Olivia Markesich
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Reviewed in Australia on 12 January 2023
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it was fine , not enough for me to continue though. loved the art with though, the artist did an amazing job of grabbing each detail

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Good story
Reviewed in Australia on 21 September 2019
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This is an interesting read. Good introduction to the characters and interesting world building. I will read the next volume for sure.

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MissTeatime
Engaging Story
Reviewed in Australia on 30 August 2017
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Slow to start but worth it to hang in there and finish. Character motivation sometimes is confusing but that may be because of my unfamiliarity with this style of graphic novels. Best way to read is with the panel to panel mode.

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Alpha Reader
I am addicted to this intergalactic love story
Reviewed in the United States on 3 November 2012
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We meet Marko and Alana the day their daughter is born. In the back of an old body shop, on a star called Cleave, little Hazel is born to parents who were once on opposite sides of an ages old war. Now, with the birth of their hybrid daughter, Marko and Alana's old armies have even more reason to find the new family and end them. . .

Marko is from planet Wreath. He was a prisoner and Alana his guard; she was from planet Landfall. Both of them decided their love was more important than continuing to fight in a war that neither planet can remember the origins of.

But now Hazel has been born, and there is a buzz in the Landfall Capital. Prince Robot IV is being taken out of his peaceful reprieve and sent to hunt down Marko and Alana - making sure to end them before word gets out to either side of their AWOL treachery in the name of enemy `love'. Meanwhile, Wreath's people have hired freelance assassins to kill the dissenting parents, and return with baby Hazel alive. On the case are two of the galaxy's most successful assassins - The Will, along with his trusty Lying Cat. Then there's The Stalk - who never misses her target.

`Saga' Volume One is the first graphic novel instalment in a new intergalactic series, with story by Brian K. Vaughn and art by Fiona Staples.

I am a fan of graphic novels - but I admit, I've been very conservative in my graphic reading habits. I tried to get into the spin-off `Buffy' comic series back in 2007, because it was touted as being Season eight and I was still feeling the `Buffy' void after the show's end. But I just couldn't get into it - Joss Whedon's particular brand of snark works best for me on TV. So then I limited my reading to graphic adaptations of the book series I already loved - Diana Gabaldon's `The Exile' story set in her `Outlander' universe. I love the graphic adaptations of Paricia Briggs's `Mercy Thompson' and Gail Carriger's `Parasol Protectorate' series. I journeyed outside my comfort zone when I read the brilliant children's graphic novel `The Deep: Here Be Dragons' with story by Tom Taylor, and art by James Brouwer. So I was well and truly ready to delve even deeper into the graphic novel world, when a blog I frequent by the name of Jezebel wrote up a glowing piece on this new series called `Saga'. It sounded dark, smart and complex - but it was mention of a (literal) star-crossed lover's story that really hooked me.

`Saga' is so, so, so good! I was laughing from the first page - and from the first panel glimpse of Marko, I was swooning. The story begins right in the thick of action - with Alana giving birth to Hazel and soldiers from both Wreath and Landfall breaking in to take the family down - because word of enemy's falling in love and starting a family would be one hell of a bad PR campaign for this war of no end.

The series is very clever and makes societal and political commentaries that are reflective and relevant to the modern-day. It's in the things like Landfall royalty, Prince Robot IV, having a television for a head - that, I think, says something about corrupt media's tyrannical hold over society. Then there's the pornographic planet, Sextillion, where hired assassin The Will travels when he's down on his luck hunting the new parents and wants to drown his sorrows in sex. Sextillion is all bright lights, paid flesh and beautiful depravity - but, as The Will soon discovers, it has a sick and seedy underbelly . . . again, this is no doubt commentary on the sexualisation of our own society - and in a particularly horrendous scene, Vaughan will really have you thinking about the slippery slope of carnal consumerism.

I did appreciate how very, very clever `Saga' was - for all that's between the panels, if you will. But what made this graphic novel so brilliant was the story. In particular, I loved our narrator; an older Hazel is recounting the story of her parent's love and her birth from somewhere in the future. She peppers her reminiscence with references to life now. At one point she muses; "From my very first day, I was pursued by men. All of them tried to hurt me, but only one managed to break my heart . . . Sorry, getting ahead of myself." I loved that Hazel had a voice in this novel, it means that though she's an adorable (but silent) baby when this story starts, we do get a sense of her personality through her omniscient narration - more than that, her hints about what the future holds makes me very, very hopeful for a long, epic series in which we eventually catch up in the story to follow an older Hazel.

`Saga' is very much an adult graphic novel (if the mention of Sextillion wasn't enough of a tip-off). There are graphic sex scenes, and violent deaths. It's also scary as all get out . . . when I turned the page and saw an image of spider-like assassin The Stalk I felt my palms begin to sweat. It's really a testament to Fiona Staple's utterly beautiful, detailed and sometimes creepy artwork. She's amazing - and I think I will have to trawl through her backlist and read absolutely everything she's put her artistic licence to.

The fact that `Saga' is so adult is also why I liked it so much - it's complex and far-reaching, set on an epic scale and concerning AWOL lovers, broken-hearted assassins and royal soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder. This is really a series to sink your teeth into.

I will also say that `Saga' has a very cinematic quality to it. I have high-hopes that because Brian K. Vaughan has a Hollywood history (he was a writer/producer on TV show `Lost') that there is every chance this brilliant series could be adapted . . . I'm especially elated to discover that Vaughan wrote for the Buffy season 8 comic series, because while reading `Saga' I kept thinking that it had a Joss Whedon quality to it - with hints of `Firefly'. It's in Alana's snarky comments, a tangled back-story between The Will and The Stalk and a clear long-reaching story arc.

I love, love, loved `Saga'. I'm now officially addicted. Issue number seven has recently come out, with instalment eight due later in November. I need it - seriously! It has become a delicious drug, delving into this intergalactic love story and I just can't wait to go back. . .

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Reviewed in Canada on 7 April 2023
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Loved it really well written with some great characters and more adventures you'll want to see. I will want to keep reading.I

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KL
Fascinating read! Totally recommend it.
Reviewed in India on 16 March 2019
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The book came on time and in perfect condition. The quality is amazing and all the pages are glossy. I paid 486 and it was totally worth it.
About the graphic novel, it was an amazing read and it took like an hour to finish. And the graphics were brilliantly done!
*The story follows this couple - Alana and Marco who are from this two kinds of people - horns and wings who are fighting eachother for a long time .
*So the couple have a baby and the story is from the kid's perspective , how it's parents are struggling to keep themselves and the baby alive.
*They are in another planet and trying to fight there way out of it.
*It's hilarious , emotional and amazing.
*This is a adult graphic novel and those who are reading it should be aware of nudity and foul language.

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Fascinating read! Totally recommend it.

Reviewed in India on 16 March 2019
The book came on time and in perfect condition. The quality is amazing and all the pages are glossy. I paid 486 and it was totally worth it.
About the graphic novel, it was an amazing read and it took like an hour to finish. And the graphics were brilliantly done!
*The story follows this couple - Alana and Marco who are from this two kinds of people - horns and wings who are fighting eachother for a long time .
*So the couple have a baby and the story is from the kid's perspective , how it's parents are struggling to keep themselves and the baby alive.
*They are in another planet and trying to fight there way out of it.
*It's hilarious , emotional and amazing.
*This is a adult graphic novel and those who are reading it should be aware of nudity and foul language.

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Dr Chocapic
Ça promet.
Reviewed in France on 26 June 2013
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Grand fan de l'auteur, je m'attendais à du bon et je n'est pas été déçu. C'est frais, original et déjà intriguant dès le premier volume. Brian K. Vaughan fait comme d'habitude un excellent travail sur l'univers et surtout les dialogues et Fiona Staples nous livre là un rendu graphique de très haute volée. Il faut aimer les mélanges magie/science-fiction et, en grand fan de Shadowrun, j'ai immédiatement pré-commandé la suite.

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Alessandro Cappai
Una delle serie migliori degli ultimi anni
Reviewed in Italy on 23 July 2015
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La Image offre una marea di serie e sono tutte di qualità, ma alla fine dei conti Saga rimane la migliore. Un fumetto progressista, antirazzista e antisessista. I disegni della Staples sono spettacolari, stesso discorso per i testi di Vaughan. Poesia che si mischia alla volgarità gratuita (la primissima tavola è un ottimo esempio), come piace a me.

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