Paste Magazine has named Fiona Staples the best comic artist of the year, for her work on Image Comics’ Saga. Which presents us an opportunity to write about Saga. Congratulations Fiona Staples.

If you are not reading Saga, written by Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Buffy) do yourself a favor and start now. It’s among the best things. The story combines the drama of starting a new family with a never-ending all-consuming galactic war. A description which does no justice to how unique Saga really is.

It’s a sci-fi epic for adults that takes seriously the intimate details of love and sex and family and parenting, and the demands of personal commitments-including non-violence-in a time and place that makes them seem impossible.

Breastfeeding and cloth diapers and bounty-hunters and lying cat. Robots with TV heads engaged in bizarre coitus. A rocket ship that’s really a tree, a babysitter that’s a half a ghost. Saga is a strange, funny, inspired work of art.

Made stunning by Fiona Staples.