bedone reviewed Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan (Saga, #1)
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1 star
I did not like this, and I don't understand why people make such a big deal about it.
This book has had a lot of hype for years. A lot of what I heard was by people who said, "I normally don't read comics, but Saga is great," or "I normally don't read SF, but Saga is great." Maybe that's the problem because what they praise as SO ORIGINAL was just not exciting to me. Two people from warring factions fall in love (snore). They have a baby who represents great hope for the future (snore). There are creatures who look like animals and spaceships made of trees and a babysitter who's like a ghost, and, and, and... look, that might seem groundbreaking and exciting to you, but it's not exciting for me. And anyway, interesting visuals aren't going to save a story that stinks (and at least in Volume …
I did not like this, and I don't understand why people make such a big deal about it.
This book has had a lot of hype for years. A lot of what I heard was by people who said, "I normally don't read comics, but Saga is great," or "I normally don't read SF, but Saga is great." Maybe that's the problem because what they praise as SO ORIGINAL was just not exciting to me. Two people from warring factions fall in love (snore). They have a baby who represents great hope for the future (snore). There are creatures who look like animals and spaceships made of trees and a babysitter who's like a ghost, and, and, and... look, that might seem groundbreaking and exciting to you, but it's not exciting for me. And anyway, interesting visuals aren't going to save a story that stinks (and at least in Volume 1, this story stinks).
Finally, this book has a lot of explicit material, and some of it is pretty dark. And look, I know that not all comics are for kids. In this book though, the only purpose it seemed to serve was to suggest that this is a bad time and place to try to raise a child. It seemed like a pretty weak reason to include some of this stuff, and it really wasn't the kind of thing I want to read.
