Right, I think we agreed there was no way I could like it as much as you because it pushed all your buttons
Yes, that's what didn't make it into my comment. (I should know better than to post early in the day!)
Also, it was my first introduction to graphic novels (besides Maus, which is also very extremely dark and highly recommended by me).
Do I sense a correlation between dark and excellent? [/tongue in cheek] Maus gets excellent press, and some day I'll set aside the time to read it.
I think I missed some of the Watchmen motifs, at first because I didn't have time to reread and later because I wasn't inclined to. I acknowledge its technical excellence while being leery of its darkness. I'll probably reread it before the movie comes out, and enjoy more of its complexity then.
And I'm a sucker for alternate universes, possibly in the same way that you love post-apocalyptic stories :)
I'll keep my eyes open for stories about alternate universes, then. :-) They're so hard to do right: to make plausible and compelling. Fortunately, some authors can pull it off. (I'm assuming you've heard of Michael Chabon?)
I know many of Yorik's pop culture allusions, so I get the in-joke buzz that you cruelly have been denied.
(Reminds me of Farscape in this regard, actually-- Crichton used to drive me nuts with his little pop culture thingies.)
Yorik Brown and John Crichton would totally be in sympathy, and (more) craziness would ensue. Pizza and margarita shooters for everyone!
Poor 355! Being stuck guarding the Last Hope of Humanity - who's sort of a slacker - must be a trial sometimes. (All the time.)
It's also possible Y turns up more on further readings; once the whole thing comes out in a single volume (if that happens) I might check it out again.
I think the 10 graphic novels are as collected as they're likely to get in the near future, from what I understand of comics.
Because my county library system is run by irony, I still can't read Y #10 without shelling out cash or sitting in a Borders. I sense some ILL attempts in my near future.
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Date: 2008-12-04 04:23 am (UTC)Yes, that's what didn't make it into my comment. (I should know better than to post early in the day!)
Also, it was my first introduction to graphic novels (besides Maus, which is also very extremely dark and highly recommended by me).
Do I sense a correlation between dark and excellent? [/tongue in cheek] Maus gets excellent press, and some day I'll set aside the time to read it.
I think I missed some of the Watchmen motifs, at first because I didn't have time to reread and later because I wasn't inclined to. I acknowledge its technical excellence while being leery of its darkness. I'll probably reread it before the movie comes out, and enjoy more of its complexity then.
And I'm a sucker for alternate universes, possibly in the same way that you love post-apocalyptic stories :)
I'll keep my eyes open for stories about alternate universes, then. :-) They're so hard to do right: to make plausible and compelling. Fortunately, some authors can pull it off. (I'm assuming you've heard of Michael Chabon?)
I know many of Yorik's pop culture allusions, so I get the in-joke buzz that you cruelly have been denied.
(Reminds me of Farscape in this regard, actually-- Crichton used to drive me nuts with his little pop culture thingies.)
Yorik Brown and John Crichton would totally be in sympathy, and (more) craziness would ensue. Pizza and margarita shooters for everyone!
Poor 355! Being stuck guarding the Last Hope of Humanity - who's sort of a slacker - must be a trial sometimes. (All the time.)
It's also possible Y turns up more on further readings; once the whole thing comes out in a single volume (if that happens) I might check it out again.
I think the 10 graphic novels are as collected as they're likely to get in the near future, from what I understand of comics.
Because my county library system is run by irony, I still can't read Y #10 without shelling out cash or sitting in a Borders. I sense some ILL attempts in my near future.