Brian K. Vaughan Returns To Comics With ‘Saga’. Glory Be.

Brian K. Vaughan is returning to comics, and he’s bringing the gorgeous artwork of Fiona Staples along with him. It’s been too long Vaughan, too long indeed!

USA Today:

After creating the acclaimed comic-book series  Y: The Last Man  and  Ex Machina  in the 2000s, the scribe shifted his focus to film and TV, joining the hit TV seriesLost  for three seasons. With  Saga, an  Image Comicsseries making its debut in March, he’s returning to the industry where he first made his mark.

“Comics are in my blood. I’ve been dying to get back to it,” Vaughan says.

Admittedly a “big  Star Wars  nerd,” Vaughan has channeled his inner  George Lucas  to create a sci-fi/fantasy epic. It follows two soldiers – a ram-horned man named Marko and a winged female warrior named Alana – from different sides of an intergalactic war who fall in love and decide to have a baby.

That’s when the real adventure begins, as the new family is pursued by everyone in the universe, Vaughan says. “You’ll get a nice mixture of some bounty hunters, monsters and all sorts of lovely threats.”

That’s all he’s saying for now because he wants to keep some surprises for the fans who have been clamoring for a comic from him for four years.

“I just miss the days from when I was a kid where you could pick up a No. 1 comic and it’s not a reboot or a relaunch or something,” says Vaughan. “It was just wall-to-wall new.”

So it’s like a science-fiction riff on Preacher? Naw, just kidding! Sort of. Whenever I hear of the ole proverbial Angel and Demon have a kid type story, I can’t help thinking of the Word. Very excited for this, very excited indeed.