Seriously, this is a great little comic. Current Lost scribe, Brian K. Vaughan’s series envisions a post-testosterone world where a population of 3+ billion women, one man and his monkey try to make sense of and adjust to what has happened. The book is at turns hilarious, poignant and thrilling. The dialogue is sharp and the characters have depth. It's interesting to see a guy write a predominately female cast without making the characters just seem like guys with female names. All his women are developed as women which I imagine is tough to do. Then again, I'm a guy, so maybe a female reading the book would say he has the feminine voice all wrong. But what would she know? She's just a chick. Wow. Kidding!
Anyways, the series is basically a road trip where the reader follows the eponymous Yorick, his monkey Ampersand (also male), his bodyguard Agent 355 and Doctor Mann. Yorick is searching for his girlfriend Beth who he proposed to right before the event that wiped out the males happened. She was in the Australian outback at the time while Yorick was in Brooklyn. Agent 355 is a secret agent from the government sent to keep Yorick who overnight becomes the most valuable resource on the planet from getting himself killed. And Doctor Mann is the scientist who hopes ot figure out what saved Yorick and his monkey so that she might help recreate the man part of mankind. On the way they run into one-boobed Amazon women, ninjas, assassins, pirates, pop stars...you name it. It's consistently entertaining and at times thought-provoking as Vaughan touches on many aspects of human existence and how it would look without men from domestic life to spritiual matters. Highly recommended.
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