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Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan

37 reviews

prinsessenora4's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pedophilia, Slavery, Trafficking, and Pregnancy

minzzi's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

  This was a great start to a series that apparently will check out a lot of my boxes.
   The characters were good. They all seen to inhabit this gray area of morality that I like to read about. But I definitely need more time with them to decided with ones I like and with ones I don't. Also, the relationship between the main characters was enjoyable and realistic, and that is something I don't get to say often.
  The premise isn't revolutionary, but all the worbuilding elements/design of the characters and settings that acompany it are great. And I love me some intertwined plotlines that all culminate in one thing at the end. 
  My only real complainty is the misogynistic air all throughout the grafic novel. Not in a way that serves the plot/worldbuilding, but in the way where you can clearly tell this was written by a man. All the adult woman are naked/half-naked at least once, sometimes for no reason at all, Alana, the female protagonist, gives birth and then imediatly gets up like nothing happened, etc.  Those are the kinda of thing that can take you out of the story once you start to notice. I do hope that this chances in the next volume, but I'm not to confident.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

halfbloodprincess_hogwarts's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Saga begins withs with the birth of our narrator (literally). Her parents, Marko and Alana comes from opposite sides of an ongoing war. 

The fact they conceived the impossible has put a mark on their backs. So we follow them, half a ghost child and their pursuers (Prince Robot IV, Freelance Assassins and others). One of the Freelance Assassins by the name The Will has a giant Lying Cat that follows him around and it's so comical when it blurts out "LYING" when someone is talking.

Graphic illustrations are incredible and Saga is quite a page-turner. From the looks of it this is volume 1 of 12 and I cannot wait to read the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

paper_pepper's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Trafficking, Murder, and Pregnancy

bumblemee's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This ist the third time I started reading this - the first two times I didn't make it past the first chapter. I didn't immediately connect with the characters and mixed with the violence, sexual content and a lot of swearing it just was too much for me (I knew these things would be included, but I have to be in the right mood to read something like this, which I wasn't apparently). This time around I made it past the first chapter and started really liking it. The conflicts have a lot of potential in the longrun, the characters started growing on me and the art it really stunning. I am very interested to see how the story evolves because I think it can explore the consequences of violence and war in a meaningful way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse

polter6eist's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery and Trafficking

jnl00700's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Trafficking, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

pages_by_the_water's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

It has VERY sexually graphic scenes that make it very hard to continue reading and are very distracting. It’s fine if the point was erotica but it seems to be a shock factor 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Racism, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

achay91's review

adventurous tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Kidnapping

theblackcherry12345's review

adventurous dark emotional funny relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Beautiful art, character designs and world building. It gives the reader a new look on the complex nature and effect of war, people, society,etc. The characters are great, especially Marko.
Also, there are sentient robots with TV heads. Hilarious.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Trafficking, Grief, Abortion, Murder, and War