Ok, last week I finished book 8 of the wheel of time but
because the set of books is so massive and the fact that I haven’t posted
anything for the other books in the series, I’ve decided that I will wait until
I have finished the lot of them and then review the set as a whole.
I was going to review a few books today, the Alchemist,
Eragon, just couldn’t do it. So I’m going to talk about a graphic novel sitting
next to me. I was in Toronto a few days ago at a place called the hairy
tarantula where I spent about a half hour talking with one of the employees him
just showing me different trade prints I might like. One that stuck was Saga
book 1. It didn’t seem like much, he described it as “like star wars but
without all the laser swords and ray guns.” Pretty true but under valuing the
story. It’s from the perspective of a grown woman talking about stories from
her past.
The setting is a universe that has been thrown into war
because the people of a planet their moon can’t get along. Both sides have long
forgotten if they have ever been at peace, and now the war is so big people are
forgetting even active battlefields.
The story follows the
woman’s parents her mother Alana, a drafted prison guard from the planet, and
her father Marko from the moon, who is described as a conscientious objector
and a spy. With both forces trying to kill them the story follows their escape
from the planet on which they met and the “people” they meet on the way.
A sub story within the book is about a freelance fighter
called The Will. Not much is known about him and little revived other than his hatred
for child slavery.
I would highly recommend this story to pretty much anyone
who reads graphic novels with the only warning that on page one of chapter four
is…I don’t have a name for it, and no amount of online research has helped me
put a name to them.
