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[thebitterguy]

pyat and I took in burritos yesterday at Chorizo's. It was also their first anniversary, so there was a mariachi band playing as well.

That was a great bit, even if it took conversation and punched it in the nuts. How many guys get a Mariachi band on their birthday? Anyway, he proved it's not just me; that place is really hard to find the first time you go there.

Since we couldn't kibbitz too much at the store, we went over to Altered States.

He checked out the gaming section (all alone back there) and the Albedo comics.

Anyway, my pull list was kinda blank this week, so I picked up the first trade for Y:The Last Man.

Man, that was a good book. The basic gist is that one day, every man on the planet dies except for our hero, Yorick, and his monkey, &.

Neat story. Very interesting alternate PA. At the point I'm at, it's been a couple months, but there's no explanation of what happened to children in vitro, for example.

It looks like an interesting mystery. The character of Yorrick is interesting; he's a slacker who's got the skills of a stage magician.

It's interesting what happens when all the men are gone. Democrats suddenly control the house & senate, since there are more women democrats than republicans. The secretary of Agriculture gets promoted to President. The Washington Monument becomes a memorial to the dead males (In the Holy Republic, anyway; up here it would likely be the CN Tower?) , a cult starts dedicated to the eradication of the memory of men, and the Isrealis start invading everything.

Suddenly Sharon doesn't look that bad.

It looks like it's an ongoing serial with a central story (the regular series is up to the mid 40s) much like Lost and, like Lost, I wonder how it'll get resolved, and if it will wrap up or just come to an end.

I'm definitely going to pick up a few more trades, after I get the next 100 Bullets book.

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

It was most enjoyable. :) I kept trying to think of a witty line to throw at those guys in Altered States re: the Annakin Child Killer debate, but my eloquence failed me!

[thebitterguy]

Comic Store Debates are something to stay away of on most days, unless it's something you're truly passionate about.

And even then, it's a bad idea.

Amusingly enough, I flipped through a copy of Star Wars Insider later in the day, where they listed how each Jedi died. Apparently Anakin killed a few more during the assault.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Y: The Last Man is a great story. One of the things I especially like is that when you think it's going to zig, it zags, but it always zags in a clear-cut and sensible way.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

so I picked up the first trade for Y:The Last Man.//Man, that was a good book.

I had a similar run-in with Y. I noticed it as it came out, and never picked it up. Then my pal Darcy basically said "it's c00l; u must read this", and gave me the first one. The next time I saw him, I handed back the first one, and asked for the next four in his collection. Not really my sort of thing, but it's very well written and just sucked me in.