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Aug. 28th, 2015 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI'm still loving Saga vol 3. I love how it follows all the characters, even the antagonists. And how each volume adds to what was going on, but also closes things off and opens things fresh.
I was reflecting, Saga is about a horrible, misogynistic universe, even though the point is deconstructing and criticising it. And that's good, because it raises lots of interesting thoughts, but bad, because it means the comic is full of things which are a bit nasty to read about.
But after reading vol 3, I felt things fell more into place, I reread the first two volumes and was satisfied I'd followed all the flashbacks, etc, etc.
And it does the thing lots of starwars-ish universes do, it has lots of cool details -- alien worlds, ghosts, teleportation, healing spells, etc, thrown in which give an overall impression of the world. But that means you kind of pick at it -- if healing spells, teleportation, etc, exist at all, what's the limiting factor that stops it being commodified? (OK, the "wilt plants" spell, it makes sense is fairly niche :))
And I read vol 3 of Kamala Khan as Ms Marvel. Yay! Nothing can be as cute as Kamala with Wolverine, and as giant cuddly teleporting dog Lockjaw in Vol 2. But it has Loki, and it creates antagonists who are relevant to Kamala's own identity and to her superhero identity. And it goes on checking off good implicit messages without being preachy.
I was reflecting, Saga is about a horrible, misogynistic universe, even though the point is deconstructing and criticising it. And that's good, because it raises lots of interesting thoughts, but bad, because it means the comic is full of things which are a bit nasty to read about.
But after reading vol 3, I felt things fell more into place, I reread the first two volumes and was satisfied I'd followed all the flashbacks, etc, etc.
And it does the thing lots of starwars-ish universes do, it has lots of cool details -- alien worlds, ghosts, teleportation, healing spells, etc, thrown in which give an overall impression of the world. But that means you kind of pick at it -- if healing spells, teleportation, etc, exist at all, what's the limiting factor that stops it being commodified? (OK, the "wilt plants" spell, it makes sense is fairly niche :))
And I read vol 3 of Kamala Khan as Ms Marvel. Yay! Nothing can be as cute as Kamala with Wolverine, and as giant cuddly teleporting dog Lockjaw in Vol 2. But it has Loki, and it creates antagonists who are relevant to Kamala's own identity and to her superhero identity. And it goes on checking off good implicit messages without being preachy.
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Date: 2015-08-29 03:22 pm (UTC)Did you know Saga 4 is out?