Brian K. Vaughan his made his name as one of the best comics writers of the Twenty-first century. He created two long running series, the science fiction fable “Y–The Last Man” and the political superhero tale “Ex Machina.” Vaughan also created the series “Runaways” for Marvel and wrote the series’ best issues, wrote the graphic novel “Pride of Baghdad” based on the true story of lions who escaped from the Baghdad zoo and wrote a story arc for the Ninth Season of “Buffy the Vampire...
Most exciting comic I've read in quite a while. It's an interesting mix--on one hand, you've got allegories so clear and undisguised that I'm not even sure they count as allegories; on the other, you've got frickin' redcoat military officer robots with TVs for heads. It reminds me of stories kids tell each other in kindergarten, those massive whopper lies about how you spent the summer fourwheeling and your fourwheeler had silver tires and could fly*, only in this that shit is actually going on and these characters have to live in in and deal with it. The world doesn't make sense, but some of the people in it do.
*probably not a lie I told my friends in kindergarten
Sash
SUICIDEGIRL
California, USA
MAR 21, 2012 06:00 AM