Saga is set in a galaxy with magic, monsters and spaceships, with a war waging between the planet Landfall, whose inhabitants have wings on they backs, and its moon Wreath, whose people have horns on their heads. (see above image for each)
The Stalk (monster, bounty hunter)
The war eventually encompassed the entire universe and many other planets have been affected. Marko and Alana take their child and go on an adventure to escape from the war, picking up a few tag alongs on the way.
Izabel (ghost)
Marko, Alana, and crew travel to different planets, and have bounty hunters and an evil robot chasing them. If this all sounds kinda familiar, it should. These basic characteristics are all very similar to a story we all, or all should, love...Star Wars.
The Will and Lying Cat (Bounty Hunter, Awesome cat)
Saga is also dissimilar to Star Wars of course. There is no evil Empire, no one good side is more right or wrong than the other, just war and violence. Marko and Alana are not on a quest to end the war just to escape it with their new daughter Hazel. However, both sides are upset by their union who send bounty hunters and Prince Robot IV, who is an ally of the Landfallians, after them. These two are nothing like Darth Vader and Boba Fett. Prince IV just wants to go home to wife and child, while The Will gives up then gets sidetracked by a six year old sex slave whom he feels he must rescue.
Prince Robot IV
Also, while Star Wars had slave Leia, it certainly didn't have the massive amount of sex that Saga does. However, the novel kinda explain itself when Prince IV is talking to the author of a novel mentioned in the book, Mister Heist. Mister Heist is supposedly in the process of writing a new novel when met by our heroes, called "The Opposite of War". Prince IV gets angry that Mister Heist is trying to sell peace, but Heist claims that that is not what is about.
In conclusion, Saga and Star Wars have similarities and dissimilarities. The Star Wars movie saga will always be one of the greats in the sci-fi genre while Saga will never make it to screen, or at least Brian Vaughn tried to write it so that it would not be produced on screen. For one more fun similarity, I can't wait for this semester to be over so that I can read volumes 4 and 5 of Saga and see the new Star Wars movie in December.
One more fun fact: Brian Vaughn, the author of Saga, needed to view artist work before he made a decision on who his artist should be, he chose Fiona Staples and below is one of the pieces from her portfolio that Vaughan viewed.
