If there is any market which is hard to penetrate and bring a whole new theme upon, it’s certainly in the comic’s industry.
Many try, some make it, some gather dust on the shelves. And then, every decade or so, comes a comic book masterpiece that turns the industry upside down and re-writes many of the basic notions of what comics should have.
This decade’s classic series is very likely to be this one.
The story begins with a young man named Yorick, thus the Y, and of the whole planet, as it is hit by a strange disease that wipes out everything with a male chromosome, except for young Yorick and his pet monkey.
Even though it seems that Yorick is man-kind’s last hope, he refuses to let himself be used for the sake of procreation and sets out to try and find his girlfriend who he last heard was in Australia.
The greatest thing about this story, besides it’s original storyline is the sheer realism of it all. The events that occur, are all in our present age. And most of the alternatives that the surviving women find are strangely realistic, and somewhat scary.
How many women can operate an airplane? How many women can pilot a boat? How many women are fishermen?
Confronted by these facts, our hero and his team try to make their way to the other side of the world, whilst trying to avoid any, and all, confrontations with females, and observing how women struggle to survive in a world in which they underestimated the value and importance of men.
Regardless of whether you are a comic book fan or not, there is something in this book for you. Whether you’re into comedy, romance, drama or action.
This is a comic I’d always heard so much “about” but never really heard what it was “about”.
Now that I know the jist of it, I may have to pick it up and give it a test-run. Sounds like a “Suck it, femanists!” sorta thing, and I’m totally up for that.
I don’t know… It more sounds like someone wanted to make a comic where they get to draw TONS of boobs.
Heh. It reminds me of one of the only episodes of Sliders I watched all the way through. Basically, the gang wound-up in a dimension where men were an endangered species and all the guys got hauled-off to breeding camps.
But yeah, boobies.
Or, what’s better, are the groups of Amazons who’ve each cut off one of their own boobies.
It’s a really good story with lots of snappy dialog and a few “WTF?!” twists.
Oh yeah, and don’t forget ninjas and pirates and Israeli special forces. And there’s a couple of monkeys, as well as a Japanese male love robot.
Amazing!!! Reading it now…downloaded it off oINK.me
Thanks for the post!!!
“Suck it, femanists!”
Um, not so much, considering the fact that Brian K. Vaughn can at least spell.
It was more like a joke, but whatever.
Okay, this disturbs me. I first heard of this idea in Battletanks 64.
Battetanks 64:
A bad action game I rented, where you traverse the world in a tank, as a guy trying to find your girl friend. Note: Maybe 6 girls survive after some fictional disease killed all of them…personally I think your girl friend is dead.
Anyway, just seems like some horny comic writer’s ill-conceived fantasy. Actually, according to “THE SOURCE” on all information- (Wikopedia is NEVER WRONG say the intellectuals on the forums)-Harem is a sub genre with a guy surrounded by girls.
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So from this summarry, I simply cannot see how this is an original story. It may use unusual plot devices (a monkey?!), but I don’t see any real depth in a bunch of seductive women surrounding the only known man on Earth.