I really enjoyed PZ's jab at the mass male extinction in Brian K. Vaughn's Y - The Last Man. Thanks to Biology in Science Fiction I also found the recent paper he references for the Butterfly study. The whole male genocide deal isn't a very realistic scenario but Vaughn does a pretty commendable job despite some minor scientific technicalities which should only irk the most Bio-wise of comic nerds.

Did I say comic nerds? Because I've been reading Y obsessively since my first year at Waterloo and I can't recommend it enough. Does that mean I hang out pressed against the glass at comic book stores tearin' up over rare Superman crossovers? No!

I can confirm that Y has no stereotypical comic standbys like super human x-ray vision at sexy wonder woman or twisted super-villain plots to blow up new york city. Thank goodness. In fact, I never read a comic other than the funny-pages before picking up Y, so trash Oprah's book club and start up the Jacks of Science comic club!

Bonus: Since the internet has devoured my soul long ago, here is the torrent of comics 1-53 from PirateBay. Suggesting that you go out and buy the comics would be pretty hypocritical of me!

(If you're unfamiliar about how to use torrents or read comics on computer, first grab a torrent application like uTorrent, install it. Then download the torrent file from the link above. Using uTorrent you can select to only download one or two issues at a time by the check boxes. Reading comics on computer is a bit weird, but if you have a scroll wheel on your mouse, you can get CDisplay to ease the reading because you just scroll through the pages and they are maximized to your screen size. Enjoy!)