Moi, je suis complètement fan : ce type a amassé un grand nombre de trucs qui m’ont laissé sur le derrière, que ce soit Y the Last Man, Ex-Machina, Mystique ou Pride of Baghdad.
Pour tout dire, refermer le dernier TPB de Y the Last Man a été pour moi un moment de grand vide, comme si je voyais s’éloigner des amis avec la certitude de ne plus les revoir qu’en photo. Chose rare pour une BD.
Ah tiens, j’aimerais bien savoir lesquelles. Pour apprendre à les reconnaître pour plus tard.
Alors justement, moi, en lisant les épisodes, je ne suis pas tellement impressionné. Certes, les personnages sont expressifs dans des attitudes assez vivantes, et les designs sont pas mal (même si, au final, tout cela fait appel au bestiaire de la fantasy : c’est pas compliqué de mettre des cornes ou des ailes à des humains, quoi…). Mais les décors sont quand même pas mal vides, le traitement visuel fait très froid, et le trait est inégal d’une case à l’autre, certains personnages passant d’une case pleine de grâce à une autre fort brouillonne.
Je lis « surfait » ou « esbroufe » au sujet de Vaughan. C’est un peu le sentiment que j’ai pour le boulot de Staples.
Moi, c’est vraiment la narration qui m’épate : la voix off d’un personnage qui n’est pour l’heure qu’un enjeu, voire qu’un objet ; les destins croisés ; les trames variées (et pas vraiment linéaires) ; et les dialogues, très naturels, assez drôles, fort touchants.
[quote]Saga #13
Story by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Fiona Staples
Letters by Fonografiks
Cover by Fiona Staples
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, August 14th, 2013
THE SMASH-HIT, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SERIES RETURNS! Now that you’ve read the first two bestselling collections of SAGA, you’re all caught up and ready to jump on the ongoing train with Chapter Thirteen, beginning an all-new monthly sci-fi/fantasy adventure, as Hazel and her parents head to the planet Quietus in search of cult romance novelist D. Oswald Heist.[/quote]
[quote]Saga #14
Story by Brian K Vaughan
Art by Fiona Staples
Cover by Fiona Staples
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, September 25th, 2013
Gwendolyn and Slave Girl think about the future.[/quote]
[quote]Saga #15
Story by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Fiona Staples
Cover by Fiona Staples
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, October 30th, 2013
Everything starts coming together.[/quote]
[quote]Saga #16
Story by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Fiona Staples
Cover by Fiona Staples
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, November 27th, 2013
WINNER OF THREE 2013 EISNER AWARDS! Two war correspondents stumble onto the biggest story in the universe.[/quote]
[quote]Saga #17
Story by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Fiona Staples
Cover by Fiona Staples
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, December 18th, 2013
Prince Robot IV gets everyone into trouble.[/quote]
[quote=« Fiona Staples »]Brian knows I have a soft spot for Gale and I think he put him in tiny athletic shorts to indulge me. Most of this came from the script, actually- down to the headband and tearaway shirt, which has the logo of some alien band. Apparently Gale and Izabel have the same taste in music?
Anyway, a character’s clothing is usually one of the first things I’ll design, since most of them don’t change their outfits very often. I get very nervous about getting it right because I don’t know how long they’ll be stuck in the same clothes. So for the main characters, the clothes have to be versatile and work in all kinds of situations, from sitting around in the ship to battling monsters. I like to do layered outfits so that they can take pieces off for visual variety, or to show that they’re feeling comfortable. I also don’t put the main characters in anything too crazy or sci-fi because I think their simple outfits make them more relatable.[/quote]
La série « Saga » fera une nouvelle pause à partir de mars. En attendant la sortie de « Saga #18 », voici une première page réalisée par Fiona Staples:
[quote]Saga #18
Story by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Fiona Staples
Letters by Fonografiks
Cover by Fiona Staples
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, January 29th, 2014
Our heroes’ stay on Quietus reaches its inevitable conclusion.[/quote]
[quote]SAGA #21
Written by: Brian K. Vaughan.
Art by: Fiona Staples.
Cover by: Fiona Staples.
Description: Not every robot is lucky enough to be born a royal.
Pages: 32.
Price: $2.99.
In stores: July 23. [/quote]
[quote]« Saga » is really the story of just one character, Hazel, so Fiona and I discussed having each new hardcover feature an original image of Hazel at a different stage of her life. For this first collection covering Hazel’s infancy, a breastfeeding image inspired by our very first cover seemed like a slam dunk, especially with the backdrop of Landfall and Wreath, two warring worlds that are actually as dependent on each other as Hazel is to her mother.
But Image warned us that we might get pushback from retailers and our distributors, especially because some stores out there have apparently already stopped displaying our first trade paperback because some customers complained about that comparatively tame image of Alana breastfeeding her baby. I think that’s insane, especially given how many covers out there literally feature severed human heads, but so it goes.
Anyway, Eric Stephenson was concerned that we might be limiting our audience with this kind of cover, and we had a lot of back and forth with him until he finally said, « You guys know I’m not your boss, right? You can do anything you want at Image, I just wanted you to be aware of the climate out there. » Which is one of the countless reasons why Image is the best publisher in the world.[/quote]
Saga #54 sera le dernier numéro du titre…pour le moment. Brian K. Vaughan et Fiona Staples ont décidé de faire un break d’au moins un an avant de reprendre la publication de la série.
Brian K. Vaughan : “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.”
The choice obviously wasn’t a decision we took lightly, but Fiona and I I feel a responsibility to keep making the very best comic we can, and we both agreed that he only way to eventually finish the epic saga we set out to tell was with this one significant… let’s call it… Intermission!”
Description: At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back and here to kick off a new story arc! So, where the hell have they been? As thanks for fans’ endless patience, the Saga team is proud to return with a double-length issue – 44 pages of story for the regular $2.99 price point – without variant covers or gimmicky renumbering. Just more pulse-pounding adventure, heart-wrenching character drama, and gloriously graphic sex and violence, as Saga begins the second half the series and the most epic chapter yet!
