Mario the lone bookwolf's Reviews > Saga, Volume 1

Satiric science fantasy overkill (body) horroring its way to instant cult

Funny as heck
Not just the weird worlds, creatures, and antagonists are entertaining, but the protagonists themselves are a permanent guarantee for little, or even bigger, giggles in between. And there´s something for everyone, some deeper meta irony mixed with easygoing, primitive fun, although it´s mostly the second, hardcore category.

Freaking as hell
Such cool aliens and monsters, often just fully unleashing their potential and true form after some time, come to haunt and creep into one's nightmares or cause them. As disturbing as the whole setting, it perfectly adds more suspension to the mix.

Uncensored high quality
It´s sick, full of violence and sex, and definitively a masterpiece for exactly that reason, because such ideas are usually avoided in mainstream graphic novels to appeal to a broader readership and avoid censorship in backward countries. But it definitively

Isn´t appropriate for all audiences
Because it´s full frontal in your face with feces and everything, a more sophisticated adult animation Rick and Morty South Park hybrid. Some people may just find it wrong, sick, and disgusting and they should definitively avoid reading or stop reading it instead of, let's say, trolling about how terrible it is because it isn´t the stuff that gets them hard.

An amazing couple
Quite a clever trick to use young parents and their baby as main protagonists in a sci-fi world that´s usually mostly ruled by crews, fractions, and aliens. Thereby, also the more character focused readers get their kick while sci-fi heads like me drool because of the stylishness of the presentation and badassness of the aliens.

Subplot overkill
It´s a bit difficult to still follow this whole thing, because there are so many different expositions of freaking crazy characters and subplots that one can easily lose track of the whole thing. But astonishingly Vaughan manages to keep it understandable and ends with a load of cliffhangers for the future parts of the series.

It shows the sci-fi potential for comics
Just as in combinations with fantasy and horror, sci fi has so many both plot and character tropes that are all waiting to be performed in the fine arts, not just in all these amazing sci-fi novels. Letting these come to life is one of the most important missions for future graphic novel authors who will always name this milestone as one of their main inspirations.

Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
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