Sunday, December 31, 2006

An extremely concise comic book review, nerd-style

Y: The Last Man #50, #51, and #52



Writer: Brian K. Vaughan
Artist: Pia Guerra

I really, really liked this book... before the Bad Science hit. Bad, BAD science. What is it with crackpot, nonsensical evolutionary theories these days? Between this and NBC's Heroes, I might have to punch somebody in the neck. You know, for the sake of plausibility and reason.

Overall: D

3 comments:

Paul said...

Harsh! I will agree that I found the psuedo-science disappointing (as well as the use of the much loathed phrase "man up"), but the overall arc is still quite enjoyable. I'd give it a B-.

Allison said...

I see your point. I know it's science fiction, but I'm especially sensitive to misrepresentations of how evolution works since it's such a misunderstood concept in general. That aside, I still don't like the way the storyline was wrapped up -- it seem like it's coming out of nowhere, what with the clones and fake evolution and not-as-important-as-you-thought-it-was monkey poo.

I suppose that if the issues came to my office to argue their grade, I might consider upping it to a C-. Maybe.

Okay, let me finish this glass of wine so we can go party.

Roland Dodds said...

I think your basic point is a good one: if the story is linked so closely to the science it claims it uses, it best have it right. I always get ticked off when basic scientific concepts are misrepresented in my favorite shows!

Unfortunately, such fallacies in logic will continue…and I guess that was what blogs were made for!