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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.