Image Week 4 Storytime: Saga

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Starting early today because I have the time.

Ah Saga I both love and hate you so much....I mostly like the series but man I hate how every cluttered the cast got and BKV issues of trying to be shocking makes me exhausted. Still I check it out so it must be doing something right.

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>>90074861
I feel the exact same way. It's funny because I don't even like the universe of Saga, I think it's very poorly thought out, yet I still read this shit every time it comes out. Guess it really is a comic book reader's favorite soap opera.

ah yiss, space magic cold war.
dont know why this isn't more popular

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>>90074904
You serious? It's Image's second best selling book, right behind TWD.

>>90074931
but i don't know another person who reads it.
and isnt TWD like actually 500times more popular.

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>>90074961
Eh, maybe it's just unpopular at your LCS, just look at the letters page every month, TONS of people read it.
>and isnt TWD like actually 500times more popular.
Sure, but that's because it's got a TV show. Imagine if Saga had one, how much it would sell.

>>90074976
ah reminds me that The Will is textbook sociopath, cares more about animals than people. and is apparently a FUCKING MONSTER. cant wait for whatever he does to get that title

>>90074890
In my comic shop it is loved but no one really seem to actually discuss it just that it is amazing. Or Lying Cat memes. I've also got looks when I didn't' call it the best book....at the time I said More Than MeetsI still think that. it handed all the LGBTwhaterever themes a whole lot better than saga and actually built up a universe with consistent concepts...based on toy robots I really wish BKV would just not introduce characters to kill them, it doesn't make it memorable if they die before we ever can care about them.

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>>90075023
Maybe Hazel just hates fat people.

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>>90075057
Fiona seems to go out of her way to have him covered in the blood of his enemies early on, cant wait till he gets back to that.

>>90075083
lol reminds me of the list of new names they gave him.
my fave was The Wont

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>>90075155
OK, that made me smirk.

>>90075067
i dont believe the universe saga is in is particularly inconsistent. and BKV wrote for LOST and you can really tell how he spends the characters!

Esperanto translations, in case anyone cares
>>90074577
>High Soldier Marko!
>Stop! I'm warning you, don't touch me
>>90074597
>You are pitiful!
It literally means "worthy of compassion" which is probably not the tone he was going for. (I'm pretty sure BKV just used Google translate for all of this and it shows)

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>>90075322
Thanks, it's appreciated.

OP, are you storytiming all 40whatever issues or are you just doing an Image sampler all this week? I haven't caught any of your other threads so just curious

>>90075475
>Wither
(I'd have gone with Velku to make it a command though)

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>>90075527
Only the first arc, as always.

Has BKV or Staples said how long they intend for this book to run?
It's starting to lose its charm, but I'd put up with the random dicks and trivial character shock deaths if I knew there was an actual endgame we're headed to

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>>90075710
All I know it's that BKV said it's longer than any series he has written before, so at least 60+ issues I think.

Man what happened to this comic? Is it still going on? I feel like no one talks about it anymore

>>90075735
Is he just trying to avoid writing an ending because he knows he sucks at them?

>>90075793
it got lost in its own bloat and insistence on shock value. Everyone became unlikeable, and the story doesn't seem to go anywhere.

Or at least that's how it was when I dropped it, about a year's worth of issues ago.

>>90075822
That's sort of what it feels like right now. I mean the story's kind of naturally where it feels it should be at, but you can still tell he's dragging his feet a bit.

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>>90075822
Probably

>>90075864
> the story doesn't seem to go anywhere
There have been some neato moments, but this is the main thing.
When Saga started, it was Marko and Alana with their hybrid kid on the run from both sides of the war.
42 issues later, it's Marko and Alana with their hybrid kid on the run from both sides of the war.

Fiona Staples art is so goddamn nice to look at.
That and Hazel's narration really are the saving graces to this tumblr bait of a book.

>>90075083
Fuck yes, best character

>>90076004
>Go fuck yourself!
>>90076050
>Marko is a traitor

>>90076182
Don't leave us hanging OP, what happens to Spidertits?

Have a bump.

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>>90076516
Sorry had to go take care of something, I'll probably have to leave again once I'm done with this issue

>>90077755
Time for /d/

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>>90074366
Honestly the TV headed guy just strikes me as a ripoff of the guy from Rice Boy.

>>90079414
RIP Spidertits
I got pretty mad when they brought her back but it was just a dream sequence

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>>90079496
I mean, it's not that original an idea
https://www.google.com/search?q=tv+head+man&source=lnms&tbm=isch

>>90079716
welp, daddy to be done fucked up royally

I've only ever read vol. 1 of Saga so I don't know exactly what The Will's gonna do, just that it isn't gonna be pretty

>>90075017
wasn't that already true before the tv show?

or is it just big 2 readers that don't go out and buy comics after watching tv shows and movies

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>>90080040
I guess it's always been a big seller but it didn't use to be on the top 10 and shit before the show, as far as I remember.

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That's all for Saga, more modern Image tomorrow!

>>90080143
>Where is my boy?
>>90080178
>Loose(?) bitch
(I think this is a typo and he meant malkompata, which is "callous". Also, "hundino" isn't really perjorative, it's literally a female dog, Esperanto has a special suffix for contempt)
>>90080206
>Dad, no!
>Don't hurt her!
>Is that really you?
>This is my wife!
>This is our baby!

>>90079757
He doesn't ever really get around to dealing with this. His own problems ramp up too hard for him to interact with what's going on with Prince Robot.

Also, I just remembered I left you guys hanging with Prophet, so I'll get back right on that ASAP.

I lost track of this comic around the time the woman was becoming an actress, and the dude took his daughter to the park and getting chummy with some other woman.

Did it get better or worse from there?

>>90074366
Thanks anon; I always wanted to start this from the beginning, to see what all the hype was.

>>90080804
>I lost track of this comic around the time the woman was becoming an actress, and the dude took his daughter to the park and getting chummy with some other woman.
>Did it get better or worse from there?
So much better.

>>90084849

BUMPO

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>>90074366

>>90077812
Christ, I don't even know what to think about these monsters.

>>90074366

>>90091520