Saga (2012)

Saga is the decade's defining creator-owned comic, and the reason Image Comics became the place top writers wanted to be. Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples launched it in March 2012: a space-opera family story about two soldiers from warring sides raising a baby on the run, as funny and explicit as it is sad. The first collection won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, and the series took Best Continuing Series at the Eisners in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017. Start with Volume One; it is for adults, and the hiatus after Chapter 54 means its later chapters arrived in the 2020s.