Saga: Compendium One

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a b Hennon, Blake (July 20, 2013). "Comic-Con: 'Building Stories,' 'Saga' top Eisners (winners list)". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved July 20, 2013. In 2015 the series was again nominated for the same three Eisner Awards it won the previous year [87] and won two of them: Best Continuing Series and Best Penciller/Inker. [88] That same year the fourth volume was awarded the Goodreads Choice Award for Graphic Novels & Comics in 2015. [89] Year And grief, and loss, and love, and parenthood. And banter. And space genitals which my eyes can’t unsee. Hell of a body count in this volume. You’d be wise to remember this ominous passage from an earlier issue: The book's release was celebrated with a launch party at Los Angeles' Meltdown Comics which featured a public conversation with Vaughan's former colleague, Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof, [13] who had hired Vaughan as a writer/producer on that series in 2007. [27] Vaughan also promoted the book by appearing at signings at Midtown Comics in Manhattan [28] and Bergen Street Comics in Brooklyn during the week of the first issue's release. [29]

Saga es militante tanto política como socialmente, en contra de las desigualdades de todo tipo. Por un lado con el relato, un guion de una gran calidad literaria, con continuas frases ingeniosas y sentencias bien razonadas que es difícil no sentir como auténticas. Y por otro, con unos dibujos complejos que recrean al detalle el también complejo universo imaginado (mezcla de fantasía y mitología). Un perfecto uso del color y de las medidas y una realización realista y explícita añaden otro golpe mortal a la mojigatería que también critica la obra. No se esconde nada en el dibujo de Fiona Staples (1982-): sexo interespecies, interracial, gay, desnudos integrales, transexualidad, un parto…. Saga no solo cuenta, sino que también muestra escenas representativas de esa diversidad de la que hace gala y ahí radica su fuerza para penetrar en la conciencia del lector. No parece lo mismo leer que ver. ¿Somos tan tolerantes como suponemos?¿Cómo reaccionará cierto público ante esas imágenes?Okay, can we all just pretend that this series ends right here? Because my heart is very happy right this second, and it’s perfect, and I don’t want the next volume to ruin anything: I binged this series over 3 days on Hoopla and I am not okay. I was so intrigued the entire time, I just wanted to see what happened next. All of the characters were so complex and it really shows that everyone's the protagonist of their own story. I'm seriously in awe of the depth. There's a ton of gore, sex, nudity, and just general vulgarity in Saga, but it doesn't feel trashy when it so easily could. The art is gorgeous, even when what it's depicting is not. Hazel's inner monologue gave me chills at times, and several plot twists had my mouth hanging open.

Anyway, years have passed since Volume 5 and little Hazel has grown up cute as a button. This one’s a volume of both freedom and institutionalisation, separations and reunions; with one in particular tugging on the heart-strings. I must be getting sentimental in Fatherhood. The fourth Volume, which begins Book Two, establishes the family living on the planet Gardenia, with Alana acting in an underground entertainment program called the Open Circuit in which all the actors wear masks. Hazel is now speaking in simple phrases, while Prince Robot IV's son is born. [47] A disgruntled robot janitor, Dengo, kills Prince Robot IV's wife, kidnaps his infant son [48] and journeys to Gardenia, where he kidnaps the family. [49] Marko and Prince Robot IV team up with Yuma to pursue them. Meanwhile, The Brand teams with Gwendolyn and Sophie to acquire an elixir to heal The Will's injuries. [50] There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who are reading Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples amazing adult sci fi/fantasy Image comic Saga, and those who haven’t yet. The former people are leading happier, fuller lives, because Saga is amaaaaaazzzing.” — io9/Gizmodo I hate this book. I hate this series. I hate Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples for what they’re doing. Renaud, Jeffrey (July 23, 2011). "CCI EXCLUSIVE: BKV Builds 'Saga' at Image". Comic Book Resources.

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In the sixth Volume, Alana and Marko search for Hazel and Klara, who remain incarcerated in a detention center on Landfall. Upsher and Doff resume their investigation of the couple after hearing of The Brand's death. The journalists are confronted by The Will, who has resumed his vendetta against Prince Robot IV. Meanwhile, Prince Robot is using the name Sir Robot and is raising his rapidly growing son, Squire. New characters introduced include Hazel's sympathetic schoolteacher Noreen and a transgender female prisoner, Petrichor. The arc closes with Hazel successfully reunited with her parents and the revelation that Alana is once again pregnant. [52] a b c d e f g Vaughan, Brian K.( w),Staples, Fiona( a)."Chapter Fourteen" Saga,no.14(September 2013).Image Comics. And then it rips your heart into shreds. Repeatedly. Gleefully. Mercilessly. But as they say - no pain, no gain. Davis, Lauren (July 27, 2014). "Brian K. Vaughan And Fiona Staples Reveal What's Ahead For Saga". io9. Vaughan, Brian K.( w),Staples, Fiona( a)."Chapter Twenty-Four" Saga,no.24(October 2014).Image Comics.

The dialogue feels very natural and candid, the character designs are unique and the art in general is just very pleasing to the eye. A very positive start! Welcome to Sextillion, bitchesss!This feels like a transitional volume — and I loved it. It fills in the domestic bliss of Marko and Alana on the planet Gardenia… Oh wait. Bills need to be paid, and Alana has to get a job (and gets into drugs) while Marko is a stay-at-home dad who’s feeling more and more estranged from his wife. Drugs and drudgery are straining this family.

Renuad, Jeffrey (May 31, 2017). "INTERVIEW: BKV Brings Saga Out West for ‘Fun-Filled’ Arc, The Coffin". CBR.com. The eleventh Volume, collecting issues 61-66, is set six months after the end of the previous arc and follows three key storylines: Alana's resolve to improve the fortunes of her family, Gwendolyn's plan to sway the Robot Kingdom's allegiances over to Wreath, and Agent Gale being forced by Landfall's government to finish the mission of eliminating Hazel and the allies associated with her throughout the years.a b c d e f g h i Vaughan, Brian K.( w),Staples, Fiona( a)."Chapter Eighteen" Saga,no.18(January 2014).Image Comics. a b c d Vaughan, Brian K.( w),Staples, Fiona( a)."Chapter Two" Saga,no.7(November 2012).Image Comics. Spinelli, Dan (October 9, 2021). "NYCC '21: Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples preview the return of 'Saga' ". AIPT Comics. Archived from the original on October 9, 2021 . Retrieved October 12, 2021. I am a little bit scared of the inevitable heartbreaks that the next volume will likely bring, as things have indeed been set into motion. And yes, a part of me just hopes that maybe from now on Saga will just be a story of lovely domestic bliss, with everyone learning to get along — but something tells me it is so NOT going to happen. Vaughan, Brian K.( w),Staples, Fiona( a)."Chapter Thirty-Three" Saga,no.33(January 2016).Image Comics.