here's a piece of recommended reading for you, Y The Last Man. As the title implies the story revolves around Yorik Brown, the last man on earth. that said, there's a whole lot of women. an unexplained event causes every male mammal on earth to die except for Yorik and the helper monkey he is in the process of training. the storyline itself follows Yorik and his friends as he attempts to find his girlfriend, who as storybook luck would have it; is on the other side of the planet in Australia.
Y explores many different ideas, from how it would effect the world if in a matter of moments all the men died, to the variety of ways that people may deal with it. from ultra feminist groups like the "Daughters of the Amazon" who believe that all men were a blight on the earth and every trace of their previous existence should be wiped from the planet. To a seeming utopia run by convicts who were released shortly after the disaster. it explores the spread in gender rolls in the modern workplace, showing the impact when all but 5 of the fortune 500 CEO's, 95% of commercial pilots, 99% of Mechanics, electricians, and construction workers, and the entire Catholic, Muslim, and orthodox jewish clergy die. in some places the world erodes into chaos and in other amazing levels of stability remain.
I've often found that the best comics are the ones that shy away from the realm of the superhero, or other traditional stories and instead go for the areas of life that are rarely explored, Transmetropolitan, or V for Vendetta.
If ever you are in a bookshop and see this title, take a look at it. you are sure not to be disappointed.
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