Saga-cious

"If we were all 

a little more 

selfish 

with our own lives 

instead of being 

in such a 

hurry 

to defend 

everything 

to the death...

the universe would be 

a much 

less 

scary 

place." 

Brian K. Vaughan

 Saga #45 

Picked up the new issue of Saga yesterday and read it this morning. The only bad thing about reading it monthly--as opposed to reading it in the trades when they come out every six months or so--is that when you hit the end of an issue you're not ready to leave that world behind quite yet. Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples are doing such a superb job with this book, though, that I can no longer take waiting for the trades. So I've gone from buying the e-comic book to not buying it at all and reading the trades from the library to buying the print copy hot off of the presses. (Well, relatively hot, since new comics come out on Wednesday and I usually don't pick mine up until Friday.)

Every issue of this comic book seems to leave me with at least one line that burrows into my brain and gives me something to think about. But not in an annoying, A Thing Just Burrowed Into My Brain way, of course. Well, maybe sometimes. Like the above quoted line . . . which fits in quite well with the predominant theme in Player Piano which I have been thinking about (as I re-re-read PP right now): how the lack of commitment to ideas, ideals, and ideologies is a strength, not a weakness . . . and our spiritual evolution may well depend upon a lack of commitment rather than devotion.

Hmpf.

That's counter-intuitive, ennit? Not to mention counter-conventional wisdom.

But hey, we all know that conventional wisdom is at least sometimes (and at most mosttimes) bullshit, and intuition? Well, who the fuck knows.

ANYway.

Saga is great. Of late I have been thinking about going back to buying the e-comics, though, for two reasons (and mostly for the first): (1) I'm thinking that an e-version purchased might generate more of a monetary reward for the creators (since the "production costs" are so much less) and (2) I have more than enough physical shit in my house already, and I am getting more comfortable with the idea of stuff that is Not Physical Shit.

So I'll have to do a little research on (1). Unless you already know, in which case, you can save me the trouble.