![]() Dhaliwal's vision is far closer to Hollander's than Vaughan's. Vaughan conceived a rather direr scenario in his mid-2000s series Y: The Last Man. Nicole Hollander famously said a world without men would be one with "no crime and lots of happy fat women," while Brian K. What she wonders about is what women will be like without them.Ĭomics creators have long thought about getting rid of men. Dhaliwal attributes this to a combination of inexplicable early deaths and a rise in female births, but she's not really interested in why all the men are gone. In fact, Woman World is just what it sounds like: a story in which human males have mysteriously gone extinct. Maybe because she's just eliminated men from the earth. It was as though Mother Nature had craftily picked the most inconvenient time to show her strength." But said disasters – even a tornado and forest fire – are actually drawn to be kind of lovely, and the towering goddess who unleashes them seems less vengeful than. distracted by a series of natural disasters. ![]() It's given a scant two-page spread early in the book with the explanation, "the world was. In Woman World (a compilation of her wildly popular Instagram comic), the apocalypse is so low-key, it's downright forgettable. ![]() ![]() When the apocalypse comes, it might be harrowing, astonishing or simply unimaginable. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Woman World Author Aminder Dhaliwal ![]()
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