“Saga” Vol.1 (Image)

Writer: Brian K. Vaughan | Artist: Fiona Staples

When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. Fantasy and science fiction are wed like never before in this sexy, subversive drama for adults.

I’d read the first two issues of Saga before getting this book, and I’ve been looking forward to getting caught up. Saga is a brilliant, weird and twisty sci-fi tale of war, family, and survival. It is easily one of the best new comics of 2012, and this is a superb opening collection.

Art: Saga #8 (Image)

A simple art post for Christmas. Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples’s Saga has been one of the best new comics of this year. And the cover for its eighth issue is just a great image. I love everything about it:

I’ll have the first collection of the series reviewed hopefully in the next week or so.

“Y The Last Man” Deluxe Vol.1 (Vertigo)

All the men are dead. Except for one. The future rests on his shoulders, but he’s not ready for that responsibility.

Writer: Brian K. Vaughan | Artist: Pia Guerra | Inks: Jose Marzan, Jr. | Colours: Pamela Rambo

This is the saga of Yorick Brown – the only human survivor of a planet-wide plague that instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his pet monkey, Yorick searches for his lost love... And the answer to why he’s the last man on earth.

Before picking this book up, I had managed to read the first issue of the series for free on Comixology. It gave me just enough to make me know I had to read this series. And I’m very glad that I took the chance on this collection. It’s an interesting an original apocalyptic premise, one I think Vaughan and Co. manage to pull off intelligently and deftly. This book collects the first two storyline, “Unmanned” and “Cycles”.