A couple of weeks ago, I heard that Neil Gaiman had a new Sandman book out. I don't fancy myself a comic fan, but I have read a lot of comics for someone that doesn't claim to be a comic fan.
Basically, I'm telling you this because I didn't go into the store with the intention of buying this book. The Gaiman book was sold out, and I left my first visit to a comic store in maybe ever empty-handed. I was walking away, trying to think if there was a place to buy the newest Harvard Business Review and lamenting that the local chain book shop closed two years ago. Needing something to read while I ate lunch, I went back to the shop.
Talking to the comic book guy, I asked him for a recommendation of a book to read, specifying that I wasn't into superheroes. There was a display up front, where some issues were being sold for a dollar. The first issue of this Saga was what he grabbed, telling me that this is a book enjoyed even by people who don't read comics.
I saw the name Brian Vaughn on the cover and I asked the guy what else he had done. I knew the name from somewhere. It turned out that he was the guy behind Y: The Last Man. Because even though I don't read comics, I had read the whole run of that particular series.
So I bought that issue. Then I got the collected volume one and two from my library, and read through them.
I like the series so far. It is star-crossed lovers, in space with magic. The problem is that I don't really know where it's going. The main characters are objectors who come from races that have been at war a long time, and it is narrated by their daughter who is born in the first issue. It is a nice set-up, but there is so much that can go wrong that I am wary of too soon proclaiming this genius. I'll hedge, and say it is pretty good, so far.
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