Saga #40

Saga, Issue #40 is a series with widespread appeal.  Like Brian K. Vaughan's Y: The Last Man, it breaks your heart when one of the characters dies or leaves.  Unlike Y: The Last Man, Saga has a huge, rotating cast of characters, and one of them dies in Issue #38 or Issue #39 (I forget).  It looks like another regular character is going to be leaving in Issue #41.  In On Writing, Stephen King writes that 500 pages into The Stand, he hit a roadblock.  He had too many characters, so he kills off half of them with a bomb.

Saga is one of the great comics, one that you should be reading if you're serious about the art form.  It's only gotten better with time.  I'm just wary of Vaughan and artist, Fiona Staples killing off too many people.  Take The Walking Dead, for instance, the television series.  When Negan kills off two characters, the series got huge ratings.  Know what?  After that, people just stopped watching it in the same numbers as before.  Vaughan has said he doesn't know exactly how many issues Saga will run for, but it's safe to say that there'll still be new issues coming out in at least 2018.