Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Saga Volume 4. Oh, and 1.



The LFPL still hasn't come through with Volume 1 of Saga.  No hating,  just relating.  So I just kept on, going from Volume 2 to Volume 3 to Volume 4.  Found some great stuff in Volume 4.  These are the ones I slowed down long enough to catch and pin and mont:

"Most jobs are impossible to do without drugs."
Volume 4, Chapter 21

" . . . never worry what other people think of you, because no one ever thinks of you."
Volume 4, Chapter 22

But then I was out for a bit, and I happened to be in Barnes and Noble, and I happened to go to the comic book section where I happened to see Saga: Volume 1, so I started reading.  And man, I do not even understand how I did not keep up with this book.  Volume 1 hits the ground running.  It is marvelous and wonderful.  And really fucking funny.  I read the whole thing sitting in B and N.  Here are the ones that didn't get away:

"If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born."
Volume 1, Chapter 2

"Despite what you may have heard, good help isn't all that hard to find . . . it's just hard to find cheap."
Volume 1, Chapter 3

And there were a HO lot more, but sometimes I just didn't feel like stopping to catch them, and sometimes it was stuff that was just too story context contingent to pry off the page for the collection.  So there.

But I have to say, Saga is a must read.  

Going back to Volume 4 now.  And I am 7 of 7 on the hold list for Volume 5.  But you know what?  I happened to notice that they had several copies of Volume 5 at Barnes and Noble . . . . 



P.S.  Finished Volume 4 last night.  One more quote for the road:

"If you want people to pay attention to you, you have to talk about sex."

Chapter 23

Also just realized (slow on the uptake) that the chapters are numbered straight through, across the volumes, so no need to identify the volume.  D'oh.


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