Yorick Brown, the last human male on Earth
Y- The Last Man (Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra) finished last year after 60 issues. I like to follow a comic as it is released, but it actually fits best my wallet and time to wait until it's over and then read the books within a week or less. I was looking forward to the end of this series since a couple of years ago.
This graphic novel puts into question gender conventions in comics in the same way Watchmen questioned the very idea of superheroes --just to mention one of the elements in which the latter's film adaptation fails.
A lot has been written and said about the thrice Eisner award winner comic-book and its gender implications in the plot, public-target, and the whole comic industry. Besides all those achivements and new questions, there is a reason why am I so into this series, it might shock those who like to play the though guy role (not to mention that there's actually very few of them reading alternative comics), but I find quite appealing the vulnerability of Yorick, the escapist-just-graduated-unemployed-English-Major and only surviving human male in the aftermath of a worldwide plague that killed, instantly and bloodily, all mammals with a Y chromosome.
Yorick is vulnerable in a world populated only by women. Some women want him to be a stud-horse, sell him to other women, use him as a postapocalyptic symbol of the USA, others want to kill him... but he only wants to find Beth, his girlfriend who thinks he's dead as the rest of human males.
However, Yorick (with his shakespearean name and English degree) is vulnerable even before the plague hits the world. He's unemployed and stuck in his NYC appartment while his anthropologist girlfriend is in a research trip in Australia and his friends are traveling around the world. He struggles to survive with little money, eating noodless during a whole month and playing magic tricks in the street for spending cash, but he doesn't seem to care too much about money.
His main concern is to deal with the distance between Beth and himself. His vulnerability is part of his infatuation, and he's got a phonecard to cope with his fear of a world without Beth. Nevertheless, once the plague hits NY, and the whole world, he's dettached from the technology that allowed him to keep in touch with Beth. Even worst, he's unnable to even tell his girlfriend that he's alive, and literally half the world away from her in Australia. Thus he's really lost in a world without Beth.
This comics makes me think a lot about how I relate to women, it is supposed to cause that effect, at least in male readers. I'd like to know what does young-anarchist-female-wirters/booksellers/activists... readers think about this strip, I had a feeling that they're the ideal reader somehow. Meanwhile I share Yoricks pre-plague vulnerability in my own way, and reading his quest makes me go too emotional at some points.
Last three lines seem stolen
from a recurrent thought in my head during the last month
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mercredi, avril 01, 2009 2:35:00 AM
lundi, avril 06, 2009 3:28:00 AM
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perdon por no poner tu link
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lundi, avril 06, 2009 3:48:00 AM
samedi, avril 11, 2009 11:26:00 PM
¡órale! el blog de babel :)
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