Overheard at Midtown Comics, or How BKV was in NYC!

So Brian K. Vaughan (creator of Y: The Last Man, Ex-Machina, Runaways and Pride of Baghdad) was at Midtown Comics (Grand Central) yesterday so I went to get some stuff signed (in hindsight my choices weren't that inspired, only when I arrived did I realize I didn't have any Y's on me! But I did get my Pride of Baghdad signed and issues #1 and #2 of The Escapists (the latter which is also signed by cover artist James Jean).

But the most amazing part of the event was, of course, the lineup. And so I give you: Overheard @ Midtown Comics (or more like: along 45th while we waited to get in)

Random Guy #1 answering a question from an interviewer Re: 355 : Well, it's funny you should ask, cause we were discussing 355 online earlier today. 

Passerby #1: What's this for?

Random Girl #1: Brian K. Vaughan is doing a signing upstairs.

Passerby #1: What?

Random Girl #1: Brian K. Vaughan; he's a comic book writer.

Passerby #1: [disappointed look] Oh. [starts walking away]

Random Girl #1: He also writes for LOST.

Passerby #1: [smiles] Oh. THAT's cool! [walks away]

Random Girl #1 and me: [roll eyes]

Random Guy #1: So, what's your guys' theory on Agent 355's name?

Random Guy #2: Oh yeah. I hadn't even thought of that... cause Agent 5...3...er... yeah, whispers her name to Yorick.

Random Girl #2: Do you know what her name is?

Random Girl #1: Well, there's this theory that her name is... Well, you know her last cover. What's she doing? She's doing this [gives the Peace sign]: which is funny cause it's BOTH a Y and Peace, and that would make it so cool cause even though that's her name, like, all she does is war, right?

Random Guy #3 on being asked to talk about Y's ending: Well, from a writing point of view it was pretty good. But as a reader - I just... I'm just gonna miss the characters so much!

Random Girl #3: Is that an Ampersand? [upon looking at RG#2's stuffed &-like monkey]

Random Girl #3: I haven't finished reading Y.

Triple Threat, or How TGIW

Thank God It's Wednesday!

Astonishing X-Men 23
by Joss Whedon

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8: No Future For You Pt 3
by Brian K. Vaughan (Exec Produced by Joss Whedon)

Y the Last Man #59
by Brian K. Vaughan

Y Again, or How my Growing Suspicion that BKV is Joss Whedon continues...

If you care about Brian K. Vaughan (and really, if you are a living, breathing human being with or without a soul you should!) then you probably already caught the last cover for his award-winning dystopic series Y the Last Man. A brief synopsis for those unfamiliar with bkv's great work courtesy of Wikipedia (a bit simplistic, but it'll do):

In the series, on July 17, 2002, something (speculated to be a plague) simultaneously kills every mammal possessing a Y chromosome - including embryos, fertilized eggs, and even sperm with the exception of Yorick Brown, a young amateur escape artist, and his Capuchin monkey, Ampersand.

Society is plunged into chaos as infrastructures collapse and the surviving women everywhere try to cope with the loss of the men, their survivors' guilt, and the knowledge that humanity is doomed to extinction. Vaughan meticulously crafts the new society that emerges out of this chaos, from the conversion of the phallic Washington Monument to a monument to the dead men, to the genesis of the fanatical ultra-feminist Daughters of the Amazon, who believe that Mother Earth cleansed itself of the "aberration" of the Y chromosome, to male impersonators becoming valued romantically and professionally.

Over the course of their journey, Yorick and his friends discover how society has coped in the aftermath of the plague. However, many of the women they encounter have ulterior motives in regard to Yorick. Though the subject matter of the series is entirely serious, Y: The Last Man is also noted for its humor. Yorick in particular is a source of one-liners, although the other characters have their moments as well.

Now with the last cover out and its impending end I have to wonder - will BKV pull a Joss Whedon Buffy Season 6 circa 'Normal Again'? If you need refreshing:

In a turn of events Buffy is transported to LA where her parents come and visit her to the mental asylum she has allegedly been in for the past six years: Sunnydale, Dawn, the vampires and the demons are all figments of her imagination. Or are they?

Buffy: And that Sunnydale and all of this, none of it was real.
Xander: Aw, come on, that ridiculous. What, you think this isn't real just because of all the vampires and demons and ex-vengeance demons and the sister that used to be a big ball of universe-destroying energy?

No Future For You, or How I Can't Wait For Wednesday!

Isn't this rivalry just perfect? I love it. More of Vaughan-goodness here.