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“Issue 37: Bound to move on to journalists at some point. Not so fond of that aspect of the story.
The Black Jackal wrote this review 10 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Issue 38: AWESOME cliffhanger.
Issue 39: Another awesome cliffhanger. Glad to see Yorick and 355 makeup finally, and Dr. Mann hookup XD
Issue 40: Awesome :) glad to see Beth again woot!
Issue 41: Insight into 355's past = awesome. Just awesome.
Issue 42: Yey for Ampersand's history! Never thought I'd get to see that! And now we know where he got his name :D
Overall: Pretty good story when it got away from the journalism. Can't wait to read more, and hopefully see more back stories.”
“I love all of these books; they're worth buying and the story is great. It feels so real, even with the sci fi elements.”
Stephanie G wrote this review Saturday, August 8 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I've only read the first one so far (but it looks like Shelfari binds them all-together). This was recommended to me because I'm always saying that women should get their act together and take over the world already. The concept is really cool and it definitely kept my interest--imaging what the world would be like if all men were suddenly removed from the equation. The dialogue is at times a little weak, but the story more than makes up for it.”
Jamie E wrote this review Sunday, March 8 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Y: The Last Man is one of my favorite runs of comic books. BKV is a genius!”
Cristy C wrote this review Sunday, June 15 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“John Hodgeman makes some very insightful observations:
Juan-Ice wrote this review Wednesday, February 4 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
"In 2002, Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra began their own epic journey, which recently wrapped with the final issue, No. 60, of Y: The Last Man...It is the story of Yorick Brown, a recent college graduate who...We first meet...as he hangs upside down, straitjacketed in his Brooklyn apartment (he's an amateur escape artist). He is talking on the phone with his girlfriend, Beth, who is in Australia. “Do you ever think about destiny?” he asks as he slips his bonds and avoids asking her to marry him. “Why does fate choose one man over another?” Something of a dummy, Yorick is completely unaware of the casual chauvinism of his question until, a few moments later, destiny makes its choice against all men. A plague runs through the world, killing every male mammal, mysteriously and all at once — except for Yorick (and his capuchin monkey, Ampersand). Somehow, he’s escaped. As members of the world’s better half seek to rebuild society, Yorick sets out to find Beth. Along the way, he’s taken under the wing of a secret agent named 355 and relentlessly pursued by those who want to make use of the last man on earth — or destroy him for good...It’s this kind of gimcrack episodic storytelling that makes “Y” addictive and got Vaughan hired onto “Lost” last season. But there’s more going on here. Like the best sci-fi writers, Guerra and Vaughan weave their story out of canny and provocative speculation over what an “unmanned” planet would mean. Yorick and 355’s odyssey reveals a world in which the police and fire departments are annihilated, and supermodels take jobs as garbage collectors cleaning up the dead. But at the same time, the Israeli Army is the best-trained force in the world, and Australia — one of the few countries to allow women on submarines — rules the waves...Yorick, alas, really is a dope. This in part makes up for the fact that this story about billions of women remaking the world ultimately follows the journey of a single boy.
“Y,” of course, stands for the Y chromosome, for the man, Yorick, and for the question that propels him. The book is full of these kinds of twisty double meanings and thematic echoes that reward careful reading. When Yorick catches the deadly Agent 355 knitting in Book 1, No. 5, for example, the presumption is that it’s just an opportunity for some character-building repartee. (“What are you working on ... a rifle cozy?” he asks.) How could he expect the breathtaking payoff the scarf will provide by No. 56, five years and 1,400 pages away, as he and Agent 355 stand under another, far more feminine monument, the Arc de Triomphe?"
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/books/review/Hodgman-Comics-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
This is one of the most engrossing comics I've ever read (despite the series devolving gradually into an elaborate soap opera towards the end), Brian Vaughan and Pia Guerra, thank you.”
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