― loggedoutvicar, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
2. Yeah, I like 355 but there aren't really any other characters who could carry the book.
3. Actually I had forgotten the ring-as-gender-role-reversal thing by the end of the issue, good catch. I guess the magic of the Middle East turns METAPHORS INTO REALITY!!!
4. Cool!
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― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link
I'll have to look at the first trade and this issue when I get home tonight, but didn't the "old man from Gremlins" shopowner say he brought it back from the Middle East? Or maybe it was just overseas. Anyway, it seems like nazis and Harrison Ford (or reasonable female facsimiles thereof) should be involved somehow.
(x-post, good point Blount!)
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, I dig the ring more, too, and one reason is because I hope it's not connected to the amulet: I can accept (i.e. enjoy) the idea of a world where lots of magical things work, but they're all rare and hardly anyone knows they work and they're hardly ever useful, more readily than one that has One Magic Item/Idea That Drives The Plot. (It reminds me too much of the horror trope where, like, Brazilian Vampires Infest A Small Town Or New York City, and it turns out that the only magical mystical bullhuckey in the world that works is Brazilian Magic -- there's a special spot in Hell reserved for the writers of this stuff.)
2) Not that it's going to happen, but how audacious would it be if Vaughan actually killed off "the last man" in the middle of the series? I suppose they'd clone him or magic him back in a couple of issues though.
Vaughan would get serious points from me if he did this -- which doesn't mean I think he sucks if he doesn't, mind you. But I think it's one of those books where you can do it without it being forced at all, especially if it were to go on for at least 40-50 more issues, so that Yorick would have been present in less than half of the "total story."
3) Cliffhanger speculations? I assume that the agents who stole the ring tracked them to their hideout and will burst in within the first two pages, thus reviving Yorick.
Oh, nice, so it'd be that kind of proximity effect? Femulating all creatures in a 30' radius, etc?
― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link
This is interesting, Tep, it makes me question my basic rule about sci-fi and why I like it, especially in opposition for fantasty for ex. That is, you ask the audience to accept one major change in the world and everything else follows logically from that, as opposed to a lot of magically-charged fantasy worlds where seemingly anything goes (including any sense of tension, if there are deus ex machinas flying all over the place).
Does that make sense? I forgot who I originally heard make the distinction.
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
I think "secret history" stories -- which on the fantasy end would include Hellboy and my theoretical Y-where-multiple-magics-work (well, Y's backstory would be secret history, at least) -- kind of have aspects of both, because there's still a central premise of "the fictional world looks just like the real world, but beneath the surface are secrets which we don't know for sure aren't true," so you still have a very different reality claim than in epic fantasy and stuff.
― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 06:34 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Thursday, 14 October 2004 04:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 14 October 2004 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 14 October 2004 07:34 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 14 October 2004 07:38 (nineteen years ago) link
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― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Warning: do not follow link. Go have nice cup of tea instead.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Blount way, way OTM. Sometimes I feel like Y is sort of on probation because it seems sort of constantly at risk of making the wrong choice. It hasn't yet, so maybe that's not fair, but you know.
Most hermaphrodites would be dead, the ones with Y chromosomes, but the real question is did it kill the papayas?
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 14 October 2004 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 October 2004 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 3 December 2004 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link
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― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Not that there were any shocking new revelations re: monkey poo or lezzing up, but it was just a really good issue with lots of stuff happening. And some lezzing up.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 9 May 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 May 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
And one hyphenated word: PISS-GUN!
― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Thursday, 4 August 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 15 September 2005 07:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
Let's not forget that Amerpsand has a willy, too.
― Leeeeeeeee (Leee), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― ahem (Leee), Saturday, 17 September 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 17 September 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link
https://news.avclub.com/against-all-odds-the-y-the-last-man-show-has-finally-1845512663
― Ira Einhorn (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 29 October 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link
As far as having the source material complete to follow (or deviate from), that's cool.
First reaction though was not having enough energy/interest to commit to multiple seasons of Yorick wandering and meeting the various post-apocalyptic groups. The Walking Dead broke something in my brain that I associate with this series - maybe following them at the same time, somewhat similar structures, maybe the disappointing ends of 355 and Glen.
Still waiting on resolution to the last Saga trade, too. Guessing/hoping that was a fake-out. :\
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 29 October 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
well it's here now.
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 September 2021 04:24 (three years ago) link
Is it... any good? I liked the comic, not sure I'm motivated to watch this over 2,000 other things. If they made a Saga TV show, on the other hand...
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 11:53 (three years ago) link
And Paper Girls by the Halt & Catch Fire team, obviously
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 11:54 (three years ago) link
will watch soon
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 13:28 (three years ago) link
Enjoyed it. They’ve expanded the world it’s set in interestingly enough.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 11:06 (three years ago) link
Yeah, first two episodes aren’t bad. They made the good choice - and I hope they maintain it - of decentralizing yorick from the narrative and turning him into more of a doofy macguffin..
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 12:02 (three years ago) link