There are robots, bounty hunters, organic spaceships, epic battles and true love. Two combatants from opposite sides of the conflict-a fairy-winged woman named Alana, and Marko, a man with demonic horns-fall in love and desert their armies to live together and rear their half-breed child, Hazel. There’s a planet and its moon where the inhabitants are at war with one another. Vaughan’s current book is an epic science-fiction-fantasy yarn called Saga, which is almost impossible to describe. Imagine The West Wing crossed with The Rocketeer the hero has to deal with a super-villain and striking snowplow drivers all at once. Vaughan moved on to other work, including a fascinating turn with Ex Machina, another finite series about a superhero who stops half of the attacks on 9/11, gives up his anonymity and runs for mayor of New York City. It might have been one of the most poignant, well-told science-fiction stories in any medium, let alone comics.

Though Vaughan started in comics, writing characters for X-Men, Spider-Man, and Batman, he quickly moved on to his own creator-owned material, starting with Y: The Last Man, a 60-issue mini-series about a world where a plague kills all but one man on Earth.

Vaughan, you’re doing it wrong.Įven if you haven’t read a comic he’s written, you’ve probably watched an episode of television he’s responsible for-he wrote or produced 39 episodes of Lost, which were some of the show’s best. If you haven’t read a comic book written by Brian K.

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