What the hell are you knitting? A rifle cozy?
Monday 23 April 2007 – 21:03Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra
I’ve read up to #35 (the last part of Girl on Girl) and I admit it’s been a fascinating if uneven ride. It almost lost me in #3 when a bunch of squabbling female politicians are shown their place by a man but I’m glad I persisted. BVK is an excellent writer and he tells a story very cleanly. Pia Guerra’s artwork matches this but I look more Oriental than Dr Mann. #3 also has a blip when President Valentine’s blouse gains a collar and she gets a new hairdo over a couple of pages. I was mouthing wtf when I started reading Safeword but BVK excelled himself with its denouement.
However, some of the covers have been extraordinarily naff. There is no way I would have bought issues #2, #28, #29, #32 and #33 based on those covers. I’ll forgive #2 because she was a supermodel with I’m guessing at modified tits but the others (by Massimo Carnevale) are just maddingly sexist. #31 has Toyota with what I shall christen porn tongue while the depiction of Dr Mann and 355 on #33 is just pandering to anyone whose ears pricked up when they read the title Girl on Girl.
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3 Responses to “What the hell are you knitting? A rifle cozy?”
Laughing laughing laughing at the title. Have you got a link to this comic book? Sounds fun. I must admit I picked up a comic book for the first time ever a few weeks ago. Must have Buffy…
By ap on Tuesday 24 April 2007 – 6:25
This series has been on the go since September 2002 but it has been collected into various trade paperbacks starting with Unmanned. You can read the first issue at the Vertigo website. I have added that link to my original entry. Brian K. Vaughan reminds me of Joss Whedon and it’s no co-incidence that BVK’s Runaways is now being written by JW.
By Hazel on Tuesday 24 April 2007 – 12:15
Interesting. Thanks!
By ap on Saturday 28 April 2007 – 5:35