20 Absolutely Masterful First Pages Of Comics

10. Saga #1

Saga 1
Image Comics

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.

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.

Contributor
Contributor

T Campbell has written quite a few online comics series and selected work for Marvel, Archie and Tokyopop. His longest-running works are Fans, Penny and Aggie-- and his current project with co-writer Phil Kahn, Guilded Age.