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Hsifeng · **Joined:** 07 Aug 2009 10:06 **Posts:** 573

somsone at Image, in 'Image Comics welcomes return of Brian K. Vaughan with SAGA,' reposted at ComicsList, July 25th, 2011 06:47:00 pm, wrote:

Media Release -- Leading up to San Diego Comic-Con 2011, comics fans and the comics news media buzzed with rumors that Brian K. Vaughan, the acclaimed writer of Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways and Pride of Baghdad, was returning to comics. Vaughan's return was confirmed at Image Comics' Kirkman Talks Creator-Owned panel Saturday, when Vaughan announced that he is launching SAGA, an all-new ongoing title co-created with artist Fiona Staples, at Image in 2012.

"It's an honor to be doing my first work with Image as they start to celebrate twenty years of publishing creator-owned comics," said Vaughan.

Vaughan continued, "I love this medium more than any other, and I've been dying to tackle one more epic ongoing monthly series, but I wanted to find the right story and the perfect collaborator. I'm more excited about SAGA with co-creator Fiona Staples than any project I've ever worked on, so I hope we'll be able to explore our strange new universe for years to come."

Fiona Staples is a Shuster Award-winning artist whose most recent work includes Jonah Hex, Mystery Society, Northlanders, and the Eisner-nominated North 40.

"I don't think I've made it a secret that Brian is one of my absolute favorite writers in comics and my enthusiasm for his excellent work makes me beyond excited to welcome him to the fold," commented Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson. "Likewise, I've admired Fiona's work for years, and I think she and Brian are a perfect match. There aren't enough superlatives for a team like this!"

Their science fiction SAGA will be an ongoing drama for adults, chronicling the epic life and times of one young family fighting to survive a never-ending war.

SAGA #1 will debut in early 2012.

ghostly1 · **Joined:** 02 Aug 2009 06:47 **Posts:** 294

Hsifeng wrote:

somsone at Image, in 'Image Comics welcomes return of Brian K. Vaughan with SAGA,' reposted at ComicsList, July 25th, 2011 06:47:00 pm, wrote:

Media Release -- Leading up to San Diego Comic-Con 2011, comics fans and the comics news media buzzed with rumors that Brian K. Vaughan, the acclaimed writer of Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways and Pride of Baghdad, was returning to comics. Vaughan's return was confirmed at Image Comics' Kirkman Talks Creator-Owned panel Saturday, when Vaughan announced that he is launching SAGA, an all-new ongoing title co-created with artist Fiona Staples, at Image in 2012.

"It's an honor to be doing my first work with Image as they start to celebrate twenty years of publishing creator-owned comics," said Vaughan.

Vaughan continued, "I love this medium more than any other, and I've been dying to tackle one more epic ongoing monthly series, but I wanted to find the right story and the perfect collaborator. I'm more excited about SAGA with co-creator Fiona Staples than any project I've ever worked on, so I hope we'll be able to explore our strange new universe for years to come."

Fiona Staples is a Shuster Award-winning artist whose most recent work includes Jonah Hex, Mystery Society, Northlanders, and the Eisner-nominated North 40.

"I don't think I've made it a secret that Brian is one of my absolute favorite writers in comics and my enthusiasm for his excellent work makes me beyond excited to welcome him to the fold," commented Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson. "Likewise, I've admired Fiona's work for years, and I think she and Brian are a perfect match. There aren't enough superlatives for a team like this!"

Their science fiction SAGA will be an ongoing drama for adults, chronicling the epic life and times of one young family fighting to survive a never-ending war.

SAGA #1 will debut in early 2012.

Yeah, I was thinking about posting this today too. But I was lazy and didn't want to go digging up links.

I would like a little more information on the plot before I fully commit, but I'll probably give it a look, just because it's BKV, despite my general disinterest in sci-fi in comics format. (I know, it's weird, but if I'm going to be reading SF, I'd much rather do it in novel form. It's why I make no apologies for being mainly a superhero comic fan, it's not that I'm not interested in other genres, it's that I'm not especially interested in other genres in comic form).

Michael Heide · **Joined:** 30 Jul 2009 06:44 **Posts:** 678

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/brian-k ... 10906.html

Quote:

Vaughan, who’s proven damn good at keeping spoilers under wraps for Y: The Last Man, Runaways and his other books, proved equally tight-lipped as we attempted to extract information about his new project from him during an interview to generate some pre-solicitation buzz for the book. What we did get from him are some thoughts on why he’s returning to monthly comics, what it’s like working with Staples, why he went with Image, and the many, many, many recent comics he’s read and enjoyed. From Vaughan’s enthusiasm, it sounds like this is going to be a comics Saga to be reckoned with...

Read the whole interview at the link.

ghostly1 · **Joined:** 02 Aug 2009 06:47 **Posts:** 294

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/brian-k-vaughan-catching-up-Saga-110906.html wrote:

It's also got boobs! Shiny robot boobs.

Well, I'm sold.

Hsifeng · **Joined:** 07 Aug 2009 10:06 **Posts:** 573

Thanks for the link, Michael!

Zack Smith, Newsarama Contributor, in 'Catching Up With Brian K Vaughan & His New Comic Book SAGA,' 06 September 2011 04:02 pm ET, wrote:

...Nrama: You said this book was inspired in part by your having kids. Now, I don't want to get into your personal life too deeply, but this interested me because...well, you wrote Runaways which had a bit of a negative attitude toward parents, and you mentioned a few times that was fueled by your anti-authority attitude, just as Ex Machina was fueled by your cynicism toward politics.

So what I'm curious about is – how has having children, and consequently becoming an authority figure, but also a protector and provider, affected the perspective of your storytelling?

Vaughan: When I wrote Runaways, I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil...

Heh.

Meanwhile, children? Does Brian have more than one kid now? It feels like only yesterday that we saw the announcements for Adam's birth...lemme check...nope, that was early 2010. They grow up so fast.

BTW, when I was looking for that, Google also found this. Hmm.

Zack Smith, Newsarama Contributor, in 'Catching Up With Brian K Vaughan & His New Comic Book SAGA,' 06 September 2011 04:02 pm ET, wrote:

...Seriously, having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see...

Cool, he's right that it's got to be a huge and life-changing experience and he's not saying it makes him better than those of us who won't have kids.

Anyway, it'll be cool to see another science fiction/fantasy story in which the main character's a father and his family's not merely peripheral to the plot.

Zack Smith, Newsarama Contributor, in 'Catching Up With Brian K Vaughan & His New Comic Book SAGA,' 06 September 2011 04:02 pm ET, wrote:

Vaughan: Sorry, lovers of factoids, but I have done exactly zero hours of research for this book. It's just my meager life experience plus some crazy make-em-ups. But I'm also a huge nerd, so you can you can count on there being an obsessive amount of internal logic to all the wacky imaginary stuff...

Now I'm even more enthusiastic about reading Saga.

Zack Smith, Newsarama Contributor, in 'Catching Up With Brian K Vaughan & His New Comic Book SAGA,' 06 September 2011 04:02 pm ET, wrote:

Vaughan: Well, I came to Image because those guys are there, so maybe this is all just some giant pyramid scheme? I don't know, any company that can publish books as diverse as Red Wing, Invincible and Orc Stain is okay by me...

Hey, that's actually underrating Image's diversity. Those 3 titles are all science fiction/fantasy, after all. Image also publishes

All Nighter by David Hahn (slice-of-life)
The Chemist by Jay Boose (noir)
Fade to Black written by Jeff Mariotte and drawn by Daniele Serra (horror)
I Kill Giants written by Joe Kelly and drawn by Jim Ken Niimura (slice-of-life)
Killing Girl written by Glen Brunswick and drawn by Frank Espinosa (crime)
Sweets : A New Orleans Crime Story by Kody Chamberlain (mystery, noir)
True Story Swear to God by Tom Beland (autobiography, romance)
Ultra : Seven Days by the Luna Brothers (chick lit, superheroes (OK, so superheroes is another science/fiction/fantasy genre))

and more.

Zack Smith, Newsarama Contributor, in 'Catching Up With Brian K Vaughan & His New Comic Book SAGA,' 06 September 2011 04:02 pm ET, wrote:

...But I also think Mike Costa's Cobra is one of the best comics being published today, and a licensed book about evil toys from my childhood is pretty much the opposite of creator owned, so I'm not a fundamentalist. Good work is rare, so support it wherever you find it...

Another good point.

Zach Smith, in 'Catching Up With Brian K Vaughan & His New Comic Book SAGA,' Newsarama, 06 September 2011 04:02 pm ET, wrote:

...Vaughan: Apropos of nothing, if there are any Y: The Last Man fans out there who would like to train an actual helper monkey (or just help the people who do), please consider supporting my friends over at Helping Hands...

Cool shout-out.

edit: fixed formatting errors!

Michael Heide · **Joined:** 30 Jul 2009 06:44 **Posts:** 678

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/fiona-s ... 20104.html

Read more about the series.

Hsifeng · **Joined:** 07 Aug 2009 10:06 **Posts:** 573

Thanks for the link, Michael!

Zack Smith, Newsarama Contributor, in 'Fiona Staples Draws BKV's New Sci-Fi Fantasy SAGA,' Newsarama, 04 January 2012 01:30 pm ET, wrote:

...Fiona Staples: Let's see. I think Brian's already revealed that it's about a couple of young interspecies lovers who desert their respective armies to have a baby, and are now living on the run. But obtaining a spaceship is not a simple thing for a couple of fugitives, and they're having a hard time getting away from the war and violence...

That kind of thing usually gets me wondering, what would 2 different planets have to fight over? I've seen plausible SF plots in which it's over which faction's in charge despite their distance, and not-so-plausible ones in which it's over long-distance trade and commodities (as if mining and harvesting elements locally and downloading the patterns from afar wouldn't be more cost-effective for space colonists to plan to do).

This time the "obtaining a spaceship...getting away from the war and violence" thing reminds me that the war zone itself may be intra-planetary even if a faction comes from abroad. Well plotted.

Zack Smith, Newsarama Contributor, in 'Fiona Staples Draws BKV's New Sci-Fi Fantasy SAGA,' Newsarama, 04 January 2012 01:30 pm ET, wrote:

...

ENLARGE...

Staples:...If they're lucky, they might be able to stop running long enough to change their clothes at some point...

Then Alana or Marko, whoever's turn it is to hold the baby, would have time to read Aya of Yop City and adjust that wrap in order to free both hands.

Marguerite Abouet, in the Ivorian Bonus of Aya of Yop City, wrote:

Zack Smith, Newsarama Contributor, in 'Fiona Staples Draws BKV's New Sci-Fi Fantasy SAGA,' Newsarama, 04 January 2012 01:30 pm ET, wrote:

Staples: I have nothing against babies, but they're kind of challenging for me to draw. In my roughs the baby looks like a troll. Their proportions are so odd, and there's the matter of making the baby cute but not saccharine. Whenever I can I just draw her very heavily swaddled...

It's a girl!

Meanwhile, next time someone complains "why are all the kids motherless/fatherless/orphans?" about fiction we can point to this kid who has both her dad and her mom. Then when they complain "but she's not the main character, Marko and Alana do all the struggling for her," we can go "that's the point."

Zack Smith, Newsarama Contributor, in 'Fiona Staples Draws BKV's New Sci-Fi Fantasy SAGA,' Newsarama, 04 January 2012 01:30 pm ET, wrote:

The saga of Saga begins with a 48-page first issue in March 2012.

someone at Image, in 'http://www.imagecomics.com/comics/4620/Saga-1,' wrote:

Saga #1
Story by: Brian K. Vaughn
Art By: Fiona Staples

Price: $2.99
Diamond ID: JAN120485
On Sale: March 14, 2012

Y: THE LAST MAN writer BRIAN K. VAUGHAN returns to comics with red-hot artist FIONA STAPLES for an all-new ONGOING SERIES! Star Wars-style action collides with Game of Thrones-esque drama in this original sci-fi/fantasy epic for mature readers, as new parents Marko and Alana risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war.

The adventure begins in a spectacular DOUBLE-SIZED FIRST ISSUE, with forty-four pages of story with no ads for the regular price of just $2.99!

One of the nice details in this pic is the rings, like (regardless of whether or not they turn out to be wedding rings within the story's context) some kind of "hey, not all black and/or Latina moms are single mamas, just to make that clear" statement in the store's context.

Hsifeng · **Joined:** 07 Aug 2009 10:06 **Posts:** 573

someone at Image, in 'Image Comics | Saga #2,' wrote:

Saga #2
Story by: Brian K. Vaughn
Art By: Fiona Staples

Price: $2.99
On Sale: April 11, 2012
Series: Saga

The ongoing epic continues! After deserting their galactic armies, former soldiers Marko and Alana must now protect their newborn girl from the lethal killers dispatched to destroy their family.

Awwww. Nice cover, leaving me with no idea who's hand she's holding especially since I haven't read #1. Is this supposed to be an ominous pic with one of those lethal killers? A charming pic with another baby of another, larger species? Something else? We'll have to stay tuned!

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