REVIEW: Saga, #21

[CBR News]

The disintegration of family in both subtle and unsubtle ways takes center stage in Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples's "Saga" #21.


Full review here.

[TotalSnorefest]

Yup this is gonna break my heart won't it...
Interesting that the reviewer mentions the definition of 'Saga' by the way. Was recently thinking how in English it tends to be used to denote big sprawling stories (think of the battles for entire planets in DragonBall Z) while the original definition has more to do with complicated family histories and stuff through the years. Reading things like the Sagas of Icelanders, those 1000+ year old stories from Viking times, really shows that while the stories themselves are pretty long and detailed, much of them are still rather small in scale. (Inevitable really, even now Iceland is sparsely populated, let alone 1150 years ago or whenever they were produced.)

[lefthighkick]

Yeah... anyone who has read other Vaughan stuff like Ex Machina or Y: The Last Man was probably expecting pain and heartbreak before too long.