![]() It is! There’s a lot of great things about this comic, and it absolutely changed the graphic novel landscape. It’s a rookie mistake that was made by a rookie author. None of their cultural/racial/queer identities have any impact on who they are or how they speak. There are a lot of minority characters in this series, and they all talk pretty much the same. He doesn’t get the voice, or soul, of the Jewish experience in this series, and so his attempts to expand on the character end up only entangling her in a hodgepodge of traumas. But you can tell his research is mostly academic. He’s a smart guy who loves researching, so he’s very good at presenting facts, and with Alter, he really tries to flesh out the character. However, he started writing this comic in his mid-20s and it shows (no offense to anyone in their mid-20s). Vaughan, is a truly talented and deeply insightful author. However, reading this comic again, after so many years, the problems with Alter aren’t necessarily about her character specifically. At different points, its pinned on everything from she’s traumatized by the horrors of the intifadas, or she almost kissed a Palestinian boy in camp then didn’t, or she’s worried about the infighting among Israelis after the apocalypse, or her sister was runover by a bulldozer protesting settlements, or she’s suicidal. Strategically it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, and Alter is never really given a clear motivation. Alter as a character serves as the main antagonist she takes a squad of soldiers to America to hunt and kidnap Yorick, and both her squad and the reader is left to ask why. Yeah, and here’s where things get sticky. In the comic, the new head of the IDF, a woman known as Alter, decides that what Israel really needs to secure its nation is to kidnap the titular “Last Man.”īut I thought that the whole reason Israel was in this is that they became a superpower? So in a world where most fighter pilots are dead, having anyone who can fly an F-16 is a huge strategic advantage. Bottom line is Israel is one of the few countries where women are conscripted into service and have a significant presence throughout branches of the military. ![]() Wait… how does the IDF get involved in all of this? ![]() They are joined by a secret agent and a geneticist, who help them fight their way through hordes of motorcycle riding Amazons, ninjas, community theater actors, domestic terrorists and the IDF. The two end up on a worldwide road trip to figure out what happened and how to save the human race. Here’s the elevator pitch: Every mammal with a Y chromosome dies in one mass hemorrhagic plague that takes place over a matter of minutes - except for one dude, named Yorick, and his monkey.
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