Y: The Last Man
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In another world, on another timeline perhaps, Dr. Allison Mann would be an oddball.
In our world on this timeline she is all of us.
Not that we lowly plebes compare intellectually, of course.
(A dirtbags palace, or maybe just an apartment mid-quarantine.)
Shes annotated group plaques with Post-Its denoting how she really feels about her colleagues.
(Reproductively interesting is the closest to a compliment shes likely ever to give.)
Shes the consummate inappropriate intellectual oddball.
Bringing back men is an impossibly, insultingly reductive concept that erases the deaths of millions of non-men.
Praying the answer to the crib mystery isnt as weird as it is in the comics.)
The globe is collapsing ecologically.
Who has time for tact when the world is literally dying?
(What was I supposed to say?
Shes never given me a knife before!
he asks Ampersand as she leaves to bluff her way past Harvards new military barricades.)
On the one hand, she and Yorick have picked up a delightful, if understated, rapport.
Like, that banter is moving at a Neil Simon-grade clip.
Sure, shelltechnicallybe able to survive this world through extreme self-reliance, but now shes operating as herself.
Her alliance, meanwhile, rounds out a particularly auspicious day for Kimberly.
Now shes just a womb.
The look on Manns face when Yorick says he teaches magic?
Dont wash out tear gas with milk, kids.
The gender-transformative people Dr. Mann references in the Dominican Republic are known in their community as Guevedoces.
Did you draw all these dicks?NO, IT WAS DYLAN MAXWELL.
