L.J. Writes

So yesterday I finished reading the Korean translation of the five-book deluxe edition of Y: The Last Man, the comic book series about every man and every male mammal dropping dead at the same time from a mysterious cataclysm. This leaves humanity in very real danger of dying out within decades. The protagonist Yorick is the last surviving man on Earth who becomes a piece in a vast game of women and nations working to secure gain or to give humanity a chance at survival.

It's an intriguing premise, post-apocalypse with a twist. It explores a lot of feminist issues in a world populated solely by women, and avoids the most obvious cliches like Yorick becoming a harem-master or a stallion. In fact his driving motivation is to find his girlfriend Beth, who was stranded in Australia at the time the worldwide gendercide happened. It's an exciting, very human start which, alas, did not sustain the drama. More on that below.

( On the art and writing )