CW: mentions all the messed up crap the series has been throwing at its readers. Too much to list.

Sometimes a book series starts out with mediocre reviews, which get rapidly better as the series hemorrhages readers, and only the fanatics are left.

Saga just started out amazing, and gets better as the series progresses.

At times volume 8 felt a bit let's-talk-about-issues-you-guys, but even then it still manages to balance a heady cocktail of humor, horror, humanity, and heroism (with a good solid heap of the usual hedonism).

Let's face it, though: you know any comic that features a first page splash with a pink-booted anthropomorphic owl sheriff standing under a sign welcoming you to Abortion Town is... Well... That's the wonder of Saga.