It's the perfect time to get into Saga—even though it's only halfway done

Saga Volume 12 is out now, two years after the last trade paperback version of the epic space opera from Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples hit shelves. While the series has racked up a dozen Eisner Awards and won the Hugo Award for its first trade collection in 2013, it still flies under the radar. Its biggest pop culture moment came in 2016 when it appeared on The Big Bang Theory, having been picked up by a character intrigued by a woman with wings breastfeeding on the cover.

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