Saga, Vol. 10

Saga’s return felt like the return of a whole emotional ecosystem: messy, funny, violent, romantic, and spectacularly strange. Volume 10 picks up after a long break without losing the series’ core strengths—unpredictable storytelling, deep character attachment, and Fiona Staples’ endlessly inventive visual world. Vaughan is especially good at making interstellar absurdity feel emotionally intimate. The book balances war and domesticity better than almost anything else in the genre. It’s still one of comics’ most ambitious genre blends.