SFF Author: Brian K. Vaughan

SAGA Volume Two, Issues 7-12 by Brian K. Vaughan (author) & Fiona Staples (illustrator) I’m so late to the party that the weekend is over and everyone is back to work on Monday. I like to write SF reviews to introduce new books to people who might not have read them yet, but SAGA is already […]

SAGA Volume Four, Issues 19-24 by Brian K. Vaughan (author) & Fiona Staples (illustrator) Saga is one of those series that is so wildly popular, like Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, or The Sopranos, that you start to worry how the writers can maintain its high quality. Can they keep up the momentum, originality, artistic integrity, […]

Reposting to include Rebecca’s new review. Saga, Volume 5, Issues 25-30 by Brian K. Vaughan Saga Vol 5 represents a noticeable shift in tone in the ever-evolving series. Until this point the story has managed to wonderfully balance the tribulations of Alana, Marko, Klara and Hazel; The Will, Lying Cat, Gwendolyn and Sophia in pursuit, […]

Reposting to include Rebecca’s new review. Saga, Vol 6, Issues 31-36 by Brian K Vaughan (writer) and Fiona Staples (artist) Saga Vol 6 is the first one I had to wait for, as I read the first 5 volumes back-to-back. This is such a popular, excellently-written, and amazingly-illustrated series that the main question fans will […]

Reposting to include Rebecca’s new review: Saga (Vol. 7) by Brian K. Vaughan (writer) and Fiona Staples (artist) I had to wait nine months for Vol 7 of Brian Vaughan’s Saga, and about a year for Vol 6, after reading the first 5 volumes back-to-back. Saga is my favorite current comic series (actually, the only […]

Reposting to include Rebecca’s new review. Saga (Vol 8) by Brian K Vaughan (writer) & Fiona Staples (artist) It’s been six months since I read Vol 7 of SAGA, and after moving to London last summer we recently popped into Forbidden Planet in Soho, and that store is an absolute treasure trove of SF comics, […]

Reposting to include Rebecca’s new review. Saga (Vol. 9) by Brian K. Vaughan (writer) & Fiona Staples (artist) It’s been nine months since I read Vol 8 of Saga, which is something special. It’s the only comic series that I follow, and the characters are as vivid, complicated, lovable, despicable, cruel, and conflicted as any I […]

Paper Girls (Vol 1) by Brian K Vaughan (writer) and Cliff Chiang (artist) If you are a fan of Brian K. Vaughan’s amazing Saga comic series, you are likely to want to check out some of his other series as well. In addition to writing many stories for Marvel and DC comics’s well-known franchises, he has […]

Paper Girls (Vol. 2) by Brian K Vaughan (writer) and Cliff Chiang (artist) This is the second volume of Brian K. Vaughan’s Paper Girls, and takes up the story right where it left off in volume one. The four paper girls from 1988 have found themselves in 2016, but still in the sleepy suburb of Stony […]

Paper Girls (Vol 3) by Brian K Vaughan (writer) and Cliff Chiang (artist) This is the third volume of Brian K. Vaughan’s Paper Girls, and if you thought you were starting to get a handle on where the story was headed, think again… [SPOILER TERRITORY AHEAD – DON’T READ UNLESS YOU’VE READ VOLUMES ONE AND TWO] […]

Paper Girls (Vol 4) by Brian K. Vaughan This is the fourth volume of Brian K. Vaughan’s Paper Girls, and we are finally given enough glimpses of the larger plot to make sense of what’s happened until this point. [SPOILER TERRITORY AHEAD – DON’T READ UNLESS YOU’VE READ VOLUMES ONE-THREE] After being thrown into the […]

Paper Girls (Vol 5) by Brian K Vaughan (writer) & Cliff Chiang (artist) This is the fifth volume of  Brian K. Vaughan’s PAPER GIRLS, and the larger story is really starting to take shape. The early volumes were quite elliptical and disorienting, so it’s great to be able to understand the various storylines and the larger […]