20 Absolutely Masterful First Pages Of Comics
10. Saga #1
The biggest close-up of all our intros. Alana grimaces and swears while a mysterious-for-now caption flows over the shape of her face. We'll see soon enough that she's giving birth, and the narrative voice is that of her child from some years in the future.
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This is the sort of narrative conceit it's best to introduce right away, but using it at all shows how confident Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples were in their powers at this point.