I can’t give this volume a perfect score because I’m still not 100% sure if I understand it, but it’s pretty damn close. It was a bit confusing at times because you’re kind of thrown right into the action, but I’m not complaining. I mean, they’re on a whole different planet (literally) and there’s some intergalactic war going on. It took me a long time to fully understand what the fuck was going on.

I’m not experienced at all with what makes a good comic, but this story was SO cool and SO bizarre… I loved it.

Well, I ended up reading the entire first volume while sitting there in the store.

I wanted to see if it was for me or not, once and for all. I decided to pull Saga off the shelf for literally the millionth time and read the first chapter. He’s been getting into graphic novels and comic books lately. I was sitting at Books a Million with Chris and he decided to read a little comics before we left the store, to make sure he wanted to buy it. The book follows around two “summer best friends” as Īside from a random Adventure Time comic I read at one point, Saga is really my first foray into this… genre? medium? Either way, I’m so glad I randomly decided to read it. There were some super realistic plot points that I loved. I finished it in a couple of hours – reading almost 100 pages one night before bed, and then reading the following 250 pages the next morning in the bathtub (soaking my muscles after skiing, lol). I wish I hadn’t waited so long, but I ended up getting it from the library. It was on my wishlist forever and I always resisted the urge to buy it.

It ended with a few crazy events and, as usual, I’m eager to see what happens next! It’s extremely difficult to review these without giving major spoilers for the previous books, so I won’t try to give you more info! 😉 If you aren’t reading this series yet and you have an interest in graphic novels, get going! I wish I had a dollar for every time I went to the bookstore and thumbed through this book. The action really picked up after the halfway point and I even loved before the action when they were just hanging around the house. I was quickly back in the crazy world of Saga, and this is definitely one of my favorites so far. Luckily, the narrator does a pretty good job of rehashing what previously happened without being super repetitive. It had been a little while since I finished the second volume in this series, so I was admittedly a little lost when it got started.

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