Y: The Last Man - Unmanned

the other day Chapel Hill Comics had a "buy two, get one" sale. i picked up a couple issues of The Walking Dead and with my free selection also grabbed the first issue of Brian K. Vaughan's Y: The Last Man. it is truly an amazing graphic novel. i'm already unfortunately obsessed with this wonderful story as is per usual when considering apocalyptic settings, albeit amidst our financial crisis and my small pocketbook.

we are shown that all people can be driven to their most basic animalities in an effort to survive extreme circumstances with the introduction of the republican wives and the gang of amazons. this phenomenal work has already won best comic of 2008 against a league of other incredible works. Y has also been nominated for several other awards as well.

below is original artwork for the first issue


the work has been touted as pro-feminist and alternately misogynistic disparaging Vaughan himself. Regardless, with the final issues release this week, it appears it doesn't look far off for the masterpiece to be adapted into a film- possibly 3 according to wikipedia.

"I guess I've moved into acceptance but that doesn't mean that I'm not still depressed about it," said Vaughan, 31, a native of my hometown, Cleveland, Ohio, who now resides in Los Angeles.

i'd like to leave off with a few words from the author, Brian K. Vaughan (who also writes for the popular Lost television series.)