“Brian K. Vaughn rarely disappoints. In fact, I don’t know that I’ve ever been disappointed. I enjoyed the shit out of this one. It’s a little fantasy, a little sci-fi, but he does his own stuff.
Something that drives me nuts in a lot of fantasy is that you see the same characters over and over. Elves. Old kings past their prime. A sex dwarf.
Saga has pretty much new stuff, and the world feels different. For example, there’s a character who appears totally human, and he is in love with what I would call a hideous (though topless) spider woman. Let me tell you, if you’ve ever been unsure whether you were so into breasts that you would consider sleeping with a spider woman as long as she had them, this is the perfect cure.
The point is that it’s a world where things are actually pretty different. You watch Lord of the Rings, and the people who are supposed to be attractive are pretty much attractive. A wizard has a long beard, and people kind of look like what you’d expect them to look like. Saga is different.
There’s also a good blend of story and exposition. There’s obviously a whole world here, but we don’t start with a huge explanation or some kind of silly map on the inside cover that is essentially meaningless. Anyone can draw a map inside a cover. Writing is about making that place FEEL real.”