Now’s Your Chance to Catch Up on Saga

by Dylan Blight

I get the feeling: the series looks awesome and you want to jump in, but there’s a pile of issues and new ones keep dropping monthly. It can feel daunting. Wouldn’t it be great if they just stopped printing ’til you caught up? Well, Saga is doing just that.

Newsarama reports that in the back of Saga #54, releasing this week, writer and co-creator Brian K. Vaughan penned a column explaining the series is going on an extended hiatus.

“After fifty-four issues and over 1,200 consecutive pages of sequential storytelling together, Fiona and I have decided to take an extended break before we eventually reunite with Saga #55. And unlike our usual three months of ‘Vacationanza’ between arcs, we plan to pause publication of this series for at least the next year.”

Creators can often get stuck in a relentless grind—especially when you’re helming one of the biggest books out there like Vaughan and Fiona Staples with Saga. It’s great to see them take time to rest and work on the story, and for Image Comics to support the decision.

“This obviously wasn’t a decision we took lightly, but Fiona and I feel a responsibility to keep making the very best comic we can, and we both agreed that the only way to eventually finish the epic saga we set out to tell was with this one significant… let’s call it… Intermission!”

So, if you’re like me and haven’t jumped into Saga yet, now seems like a perfect time to catch up over the next year and be ready to rejoin the journey.