“This is good comics. The art, the story, the dialogue. It’s all working.
It’s a little frustrating to read in such small chunks. It goes too fast, and the story moves so quickly. It took me a long time to pick up the second volume simply because the first was very good, but I just wasn’t sure I would be able to put what all happened back together in my mind and just plain enjoy this one without playing detective.
My fears were unfounded, it turns out. I’m forgetful too, so if that holds you back from time to time, no worries on this one my absent-minded brothers and sisters.
Can I just say something? Something I love about comics?
If a movie, a mainstream movie came out and there was a monster where you saw his giant, sort of diseased-looking ball sack, there’s no way that a 12 year-old would be permitted to pick that up. No way in hell.
I’m not promoting the dissemination of this material to children, mind you. Nor do I think that Saga is intended for children. What I’m saying is, as a 12 year-old I would have found that sack gross and hilarious. Because that’s what it is. And I can remember, as a youngin, being exposed to things that adults would have considered “too adult” for me, which were exactly the things I was interested in.
When you’re at a certain age, or when I was anyway, you want to get into all that adult stuff you’re not really supposed to have. You want zippo lighters and to experiment with smoking and to look at pornography. Once you have the lighters and smokes and pornography, that’s a whole ‘nother story. I didn’t know what I was doing with ANY of those things once I got my hands on them. Each item, worse than the last in terms of my knowledge.
It sort of feels like one of those developmental steps. You know how babies just put everything in their mouths because that’s how they learn? I had to throw smokebombs into goddamn everything because that’s how I learned. Whether I learned much or turned out to be a worthwhile human is a subject of raging debate, mostly between myself and myself. But for better or worse, that was the path.
Anyway, I hope that someone out there is having that experience with Saga. It’s a relatively safe way to get a laugh at a gross ball sack.
Geez, I feel like I reduced this comic to one panel. One really awful panel. Ah, well. Plenty of other people reviewed this guy. Read them if you want to hear about topics non-scrotal.”