Graphic Novel Review: Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Illustrated by Fiona Staples

Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by
Fiona Staples, collects the first six issues of the science fiction
thriller series (available October 23, 2012).

 



It all begins with the birth of a girl called, after a lot of arguing
between the parents, Hazel. Hazel is the result of an unholy union,
according to the rules of the worlds her parents come from. Alana, her
mother, is a native of Landfall, the largest planet in the galaxy.
Marko, her father, comes from Wreath, a moon. Her own birth takes place
on planet Cleave “an ancient ball of mud circling around a fading old
star.”





Hazel is a hybrid of a child if ever there was one. Her father has
horns, her mother has wings, she has both. And they are all outcasts
from the very moment she comes to life.





Wanted by the authorities of their respective homelands, haunted by
their pasts, and hunted by mercenaries who are “the highest bidders in
the war of Good Versus Good,” they have to run for their lives, and they
do.



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