Y Making it Big
Like most nerds, I am a big fan of comics, although I like to pride myself for evolving past stories of spandex-clad do-gooders cavorting around the city, with a quip and blow for equally colorful miscreants.
aside: That introductory sentence was almost entirely inspired by the prose of Stan Lee - thanks Stan!
So like the evolved nerd I am, I have instead been reading comics that talk about people, their lives and all that David Copperfield crap that I'm sure you all hate.
aside: That sentence was entirely lifted from Catcher in the Rye - thanks JD Salinger!
At any rate I ran across a comic entitled "Y, the Last Man" which follows the exploits of the improbably named Yorick, a "lovable" escape-artists/slacker who rises one morning to discover himself (and his pet monkey) literally the last man on earth. That is to say that all the other men have died mysteriously and only women are left. The world turns into the sort of "womyn's land" different from the one envisioned by separatists in the 70's. Now, I'm really not going to sit here and argue about whether or not the disappearance of men would lead to a heaven on earth or what have you. I will say that the book is interesting, though poorly drawn and with somewhat weak dialogue at times. But it's interesting...
You know what else is interesting? That one of the characters on Lost was reading Y the Last Man in Spanish in a scene, the same week that a Y the Last Man poster is on the eponymous hero's wall in the show Chuck.
WTF people? What's with the full court press on this comic? Could a movie be in the offing? Does Hollywood like getting women to complain? The answers are mostly yes, here. While the comic is not - mostly - some adolescent fantasy of being the last man alive to service a world of women, it is also not a different adolescent fantasy of how awesome the world would be if women ran the show. There's a lot of room to screw it all up, most of which has been at least traversed by the authors of the comic, but Hollywood does have bigger budgets. Gosh, this post went somewhere entirely different from where I thought it would.