Lucas Blogs About Books

I really shouldn't be taking these pictures during the day. So, what's this book's—oh, for Christ's sake! Yup, we're doing another volume of Saga . But this is the third time you've drawn from this well. Then we should be able to wrap things up quickly and get to work on stuff I haven't written about yet. Or we could have a discussion about por— Stop right there. —nography. We're not going to talk about pornography. Well, I mean, the difference between art and pornography. But, is there really a line? You're not suggesting. . . What? That pornography is art. Well, I mean, I guess technically speaking it couldn't be anything else. But I was actually suggesting that maybe it's less of a clearly delineated line and more of a gradient. So while what we might think of as serious art can contain erotic elements, it wouldn't be pornographic unless it was produced solely for salacious purposes. But why are we having thi...

Ugh, screen glare. I hesitate to ask this, since the last review was literally the previous volume of this comic, but what's this book's deal? You don't need to be salty about it, Hypothetical Reader. But are we really going to have anything to talk about here? Sure, you may have noticed that we didn't really delve all that deeply into Volume 7 , so after I warn everyone that this review discusses SPOILERS  for that volume, we can jump right in and talk about abortion. Wait, what? Yeah, the subject matter of this one gets a little heavy. But I promise by the end we will have discussed the pinnipeds depicted here . OMG! They're so precious! Their names are Ghüs and Friendo. So — for real this time — what's this book's deal? Well, the end of Volume Seven went pretty dark. Sir Robot had a suicidal episode, Marko had to kill the two-headed freelancer that was after their family (once again breaking his vow to never again...

Well, it may be large enough to easily cover my face, but even with my low standard of blog aesthetics, I can't help but be annoyed by the glare from my monitor in this crappy webcam pic. So, what's this book's deal? All right, so  Saga is an ongoing sci-fi/fantasy family drama/comedy written by Brian K. Vaughn and drawn by Fiona Staples. It's apparently about to go on hiatus for a year, so now's actually a pretty good time to catch up. Here's the premise in a nutshell: The planet Landfall is at war with its moon, Wreath. This war has been going on for so long that a sort of galactic cold war has built up around it as various other planets, asteroids, planetoids, etc. back one side or the other. The Landfallians are humans with wings who use advanced technological weaponry, while the inhabitants of Wreath are humans with horns who wield powerful magic and speak Esperanto. Also there are robots, which are basically grey-skinned humans with CRT monitors for...