Nearly three years since our last episode, and a thoroughly unforgivable  nigh on seven years since the original recording, Diabolu Frank and  special guest Token Fire Guy discuss the first thirty issues (or initial  five trade paperbacks) of Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples’  sci-fi/fantasy series Saga. For perspective, this talk  took place in October of 2015, the same month Paper Girls launched, a  series that concluded four years later, had a television series  adaptation delayed by COVID, before finally being filmed and the first  season released since we hit the stop button on this thing. It’s even  about half a year out from the tenth anniversary of Saga itself. Though indefensible, Frank did try to edit this episode several  times over the years, initially overwhelmed by perfectionist leanings  and a complicated narrative scheme that didn’t work out across a three  hour recording, and then had that computer permanently crash, requiring  recovery and re-editing. As the episode progresses, you’ll hear that  fussiness go right out the window. Barack Hussein Obama was still the  President of the United States of America and Hillary his heir apparent.  It’s a podcast. It’s a time machine. And now… Saga.