Saga issue 20 review by Joe David Thompson
Image Comics is having quite the year.
Image Comics is having quite the year.

Vaughn is in prime form on Saga, using the story mechanisms of a struggling marriage and the perils of war to ask bigger questions about the culture around us. Issue twenty deals in an emotional way with how art inspires its audience to take a stand or change the world. Vaughan seems to draw attention to how our quick paced world has reduced activism to tweeting a hashtag or sharing a Facebook status rather than taking action. All this is packed into the confines of how Alana and Marko are growing apart, with Vaughan's characteristic dark humor and often explicit plot turns. Fiona Staples' art gets more beautiful with each issue, and is not something to be missed. That she accomplishes such striking images digitally is a thing to marvel upon.
As a side note, Vaughan also has a "pay what you can" project, the strictly digital comic The Private Eye available at: http://panelsyndicate.com. If you love Saga, you'll love this.
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Joe David Thompson has been doing media reviews for websites such as Red Carpet Crash and the 405 Music Blog. For any questions or comments for Joe David Thompson, you can email him at jovid52@me.com and follow him on twitter @jovid52
Joe David Thompson has been doing media reviews for websites such as Red Carpet Crash and the 405 Music Blog. For any questions or comments for Joe David Thompson, you can email him at jovid52@me.com and follow him on twitter @jovid52