Does this volume provide a complete story or is it part of a larger series?

This book is the first installment of an ongoing series and does not function as a standalone story. Readers should expect to continue the narrative through subsequent volumes to follow the full progression of the characters.

What kind of recognition has this series received?

The series has been highly decorated within the industry, winning multiple Eisner Awards, including honors for best writer and best continuing series, as well as a Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story.

Are there any structural quirks I should know about before starting?

The story is narrated by the daughter, Hazel, who provides perspective from an unseen point in her future, adding a layer of retrospective commentary to the events as they unfold.

Saga, Volume 1

Volume One

Comic Graphic Novels Science Fiction

Pages: 160
Published: 2012
Language: English

Synopsis

Saga opens with a birth in the middle of a war. Alana and Marko come from opposite sides of a galaxy-spanning conflict — she from the technologically advanced planet Landfall, he from its moon, Wreath — and their love, and the daughter it produces, is treason to both. Hazel, that daughter, narrates the story of her parents' desperate flight from the moment she is born.

Hunted by both armies and by a rogue's gallery of bounty hunters, Alana and Marko run across a strange and beautiful universe of ghost babysitters, robot aristocrats, and worlds no one should ever visit, trying to build a family in the middle of a conflict that wants them dead.

Collecting the first six issues of the acclaimed Image Comics series by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, Saga, Volume One launches one of the most celebrated space operas in modern comics — a bawdy, violent, tender epic about parenthood, war, and love across enemy lines.