Good thing #3 comes out next week!
I wasn't sure if Brian K. Vaughan would disappoint with issue #`2. Too often I've come across the rare good issue #1 that failed to deliver on the rest of the series. Saga #2, however, continues with the same great sense of humor. The characters all seem to speak like normal people even when they're in the most abnormal of circumstances. BKV also continues to humorously mash up our world with his sci-fi/fantasy world. Case in point: assassin's have agents. All too often we have assassin's in works of fiction without an explanation of how they get work. After all, if your job is to be so stealthy as to be able to kill without the authorities finding you, it would be hard for potential contracts to find you. So BKV presents us with the funniest solution.
This issue also, unlike comics from the Big Two, reads with a real sense of tension for Alana and Marko because we don't know who's going to live. In fact, at the end of issue #1 narrator-Hazel had a turn of phrase that made it seem that one or both of her parents would end up dead before the story was over.
Actually, that point makes me wonder who the protagonist of this story actually is. And what kind of story are we reading? Will the baby be kidnapped, forcing the parents to go on an "adventure" to find her? Will the parents be killed and then we follow Hazel around through time? Will it be a third type of story - where Hazel and parents are constantly on the run? The fact that I'm actually thinking about these things hows how well BKV has done at making me care about his characters.
I got issue #1 from the third reprint and today's #2 from the second reprint. Go to your local shop and pick them up . This is a series you need to be reading. (Do note the M/Mature rating on the back of the cover - make sure you read this before exposing your pre-HS kids to it)
