The stories run the gamut from light-hearted, such as Kay Rossbach’s exploration of the myriad inconveniences of interstellar spaceports in “M.S.P.I.P.S.P.,” to more introspective and thoughtful explorations of what it truly means to find yourself adrift in the vast reaches of space.
“If you’re into messy, homebrewed sci-fi, FTL Y’ALL! is a must for your shelf. FTL, Y’ALL assumes the former without the latter.” (Source: The Comics Journal) Star Trek is a powerful fantasy precisely because of the insistence that access to the stars will be an egalitarian project supported by an egalitarian society. The Federation is beyond money, and that’s a very good thing if you think about the cost overruns that building a ship like the Enterprise must entail. It makes sense to audiences, from generations of movies and books and video games, that when humanity reaches the stars it’ll only be in giant gleaming ships that each probably cost the gross domestic product of medium-sized industrialized nations. Said premise sets a fairly banal assumption on its head. “Who wouldn’t love the opportunity to get out of the old neighborhood? That’s the animating spirit behind FTL, Y’ALL: Tales from the Age of the $200 Warp Drive, a new anthology from Iron Circus Comics. “The Senior Project” by Maia Kobabe features a nonbinary or genderqueer character in a supporting role.
“MSPIPSP” by Kay Rossbach depicts two married women and their daughter, while “Microwave” by Jay Eaton depicts two men in a relationship. “Soft Physics” by Blue Delliquanti, “Passing Through” by Sunny and Jamie Kaye, and “Ignition” by Iris Jay and Skolli Rubedo all feature same-gender relationships that may or may not be romantic in nature. Relationships between characters and character identities are for the most part implied rather than explicitly stated. This title is an anthology of nineteen stories, each of which explores what would happen should a $200 warp drive become available. In this visionary science fiction anthology, a striking array of new voices from across the field of comics tackles humanity’s biggest questions with a disarmingly small prompt: what would happen if we could escape?
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