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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles (Y: The Last Man #2)
WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDSAs Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, begins to make his way across the country to California, he and his companions are forced to make an unscheduled stop in Marrisville, Ohio—a small town with a big secret. Collects issues #6-10 of the runaway hit Vertigo series by Brian K. Vaughan (EX-MACHINA, RUNAWAYS) and Pia Guerra.
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
February 2003
by Vertigo
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The Amazons are coming! The Amazons are coming!
“In the summer of 2002, a plague of unknown origin destroyed every last sperm, fetus, and fully developed mammal with a Y chromosome – with the apparent exception of one young man and his pet, a male Capuchin monkey.”
And so begins book two of Y: The Last Man, where there’s a whole lotta crazy going on. The subtitle of book two is “Cycles,” and cycles can refer to many different things: motorcycles, the cycles of birth, growth and death, cycles of se...more
“In the summer of 2002, a plague of unknown origin destroyed every last sperm, fetus, and fully developed mammal with a Y chromosome – with the apparent exception of one young man and his pet, a male Capuchin monkey.”
And so begins book two of Y: The Last Man, where there’s a whole lotta crazy going on. The subtitle of book two is “Cycles,” and cycles can refer to many different things: motorcycles, the cycles of birth, growth and death, cycles of se...more
The quest of Yorick the last man, Ampersand the capuchin, 355 the secret agent, and Dr Mann the genetic scientist continues in this second installment. The group heads west by train to find Dr. Mann's contingency lab where they can continue experiments to determine what caused the males-only holocaust.
On their way they encounter a highly-functional town of women, battle with the crazy but uncomfortably sympathetic Amazons (the leader of this group is particularly well written, as her anti-male...more
On their way they encounter a highly-functional town of women, battle with the crazy but uncomfortably sympathetic Amazons (the leader of this group is particularly well written, as her anti-male...more
Jan 15, 2008
Lindsay
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
graphic novel fans, apocalypse lit fans
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I liked Volume 2 more than I did Volume 1 because all of the expository shit was out of the way and the real story could begin.
Yorrick and company wind up in a small, idyllic, seemingly all-American town...only it happens to be run by the former inmates of a nearby women's prison. Still, the ex-cons are awesome, and they have a kick-ass showdown with the Amazons. As much as I loathe the Amazons, they are great antagonists here.
Yorrick and company wind up in a small, idyllic, seemingly all-American town...only it happens to be run by the former inmates of a nearby women's prison. Still, the ex-cons are awesome, and they have a kick-ass showdown with the Amazons. As much as I loathe the Amazons, they are great antagonists here.
If there were only one man left alive, all the powerful political factions would fight over him and chase him to all ends of the globe and desire to possess him. Ok, yes it's possible. Does anyone else think it's a little male-centered? And on that note, this whole series is in a world largely of women now, and all the authors can do is follow around one cissexual male who is the central figure in a drama with all the women orbiting around him. And the battle of the sexes is on more intensely th...more
I read this book in one sitting last night. Granted, it isn't very long, but it's also a very engaging and quick-moving story. This is the second installment in Brian K. Vaughn's series "Y: The Last Man". In this book, Yorick, 355, and Dr. Mann are trying to make there way to California to Dr. Mann's backup laboratory after her Boston lab was destroyed. Along the way, they meet an unusual town of women with a secret, and Yorick and his sister Hero, who has joined a militant group of women who re...more
This was another good volume, and I'm enjoying how quickly it is paced as far as moving the story along. I'm also happy that Yorick has given up a little on his girlfriend obsession. There are more important things to worry about, Last Man! And if he goes back to mooning again, I am going to be seriously annoyed. You were kissing a new, random girl mere hours after meeting her! Maybe it's a poor reaction to a extremely stressful situation, but still!
The most heartbreaking part of this volume was...more
The most heartbreaking part of this volume was...more
After a concerning first chapter, the second volume of Brian K. Vaughan's guypocalypse opus reveals that, to a certain degree, the story just needed some time to get going. There are still some worrying moments here where the still-detestable Yorick Brown manages to draw the affections of pretty much everyone he meets. The psychology of the women who maybe instinctively understand that this is literally their only option isn't explored so it comes across in this book as if Yorick is just some ma...more
I think I have two problems with this story so far that prevent me from loving it. The first is that I'm not that attached to Yorick; I get that he's meant to be an "everyman," but I'm much more interested in the women around him. I want to know what happened to Hero that led to her becoming an Amazon and believing so strongly in what they had to preach. I want to know more about Agent 355 and Dr. Mann (I loved hearing a bit about their back story). Honestly, some of my favorite parts of the com...more
Before I start this review, he's a picture of all the spots I marked that needed some deep, tedious, thorough analysis! (aka bashing :D)
[ok, so it's blurry but you get the point]
Although the very first page made me cry in despair all over again [Yorick is trying to convince a woman to let him board the train to get out of Boston, but her reply is: With the shipping routes as fucked up as they are, the whole east coast's just about of supplies] because I simply disapprove of how the world is sudd...more
[ok, so it's blurry but you get the point]
Although the very first page made me cry in despair all over again [Yorick is trying to convince a woman to let him board the train to get out of Boston, but her reply is: With the shipping routes as fucked up as they are, the whole east coast's just about of supplies] because I simply disapprove of how the world is sudd...more
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Not a lot happens in this one: Yorrick's en route to California, together with Agent 355 and Dr Mann. A mishap strands them in Marysville, Ohio, where things aren't quite as they seem, and then the Amazons turn up, still on their manhunt. Elsewhere the Israelis are stealing US army helicopters, and we get a brief flash at the end of [spoiler].
Not a lot to say other than I'm really enjoying this series. I do love a good post-apocalypse, where entire populations get their own arc (reeling, recove...more
Not a lot to say other than I'm really enjoying this series. I do love a good post-apocalypse, where entire populations get their own arc (reeling, recove...more
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Cycles...get it...the bikes that are the best way to get around...the one that women get on, the people who make up 99.9% of the world now. I liked this volume for completely different reasons from the first.
The first had characters that didn't work, talked too much, made problems out of nothing and get way too emotional at the drop of a hat. This has a whole village of new people and the breath...the air it's allowed to have. Just the room to make Pixies and Chinatown references.
This is me...Th...more
The first had characters that didn't work, talked too much, made problems out of nothing and get way too emotional at the drop of a hat. This has a whole village of new people and the breath...the air it's allowed to have. Just the room to make Pixies and Chinatown references.
This is me...Th...more
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I kind of want to review the first and second one together, because I read them right after each other, and so it feels like one long story to me.
This is written by the same person who wrote the Runaways, and listen, you guys know how I feel about that series (I love it).
A plague has come and it has destroyed all the men. One man stands alone. ("A lone reed." A little You've Got Mail reference). How would the government change? How would the world be affected since so much of our government an...more
This is written by the same person who wrote the Runaways, and listen, you guys know how I feel about that series (I love it).
A plague has come and it has destroyed all the men. One man stands alone. ("A lone reed." A little You've Got Mail reference). How would the government change? How would the world be affected since so much of our government an...more
I really like Brian K. Vaughan's story. The cross country trek that Yorick begins is intriguing. The detour experienced in this collection takes the gang to a thriving town where the locals have restored electricity and set up a farm to supply the food. The conflict between Yorick and his sister sets the stage for future conflicts. The art is okay but not up to the level of the writing. Vaughan keeps planting clues as to what is going on behind the scenes. The last page reveal should shake thing...more
This series is shaping up to be one of my all time favorites.
When we last left Yorick, he was trying to travel across the United States with the help of Agent 355 and Dr. Mann. This is especially difficult when most roadways are blocked with abandoned vehicles and other large obstacles. Therefore, the best route of travel? Train. The trip is interrupted quickly when attacked by a gang of women separate from the Amazons. Once again, their journey is thrown into disarray. To go any further in the...more
When we last left Yorick, he was trying to travel across the United States with the help of Agent 355 and Dr. Mann. This is especially difficult when most roadways are blocked with abandoned vehicles and other large obstacles. Therefore, the best route of travel? Train. The trip is interrupted quickly when attacked by a gang of women separate from the Amazons. Once again, their journey is thrown into disarray. To go any further in the...more
I didn't like this one as well as the first. I think what I liked so much about the first one was that the whole idea of all the men being gone was new, and gave me a lot of things to think about. Now that the idea isn't new anymore, and the story is just about Yorick trying not to get killed, it's not quite as interesting.
It's still good, and the artwork is great, but the language is pretty bad. Does every character have to use the F-word constantly? Seems like the author could have tried harde...more
It's still good, and the artwork is great, but the language is pretty bad. Does every character have to use the F-word constantly? Seems like the author could have tried harde...more
The first volume sold me on trying the next volume. This second volume sold me on the series. If the writer can keep up with this level of plot development and character development then it will have been a very worthwhile read. This book really gave us a deeper look at the various driving characters of the series, and really did some fantastic character development work. The overall plot line continues to evolve and develop, giving us a look not just at the characters and how they deal with the...more
The tale of Yorick Brown, the last man on earth, continues with the landing of three astronauts on earth, including two men. The men are not sure if they'll be affected by the plague, but, if they survive, the number of men on Earth (and the human species' chances of survival) are about to triple.
In each of these volumes, Vaughan brings up some interesting points. Dr. Mann points out that, the longer this plague goes on, the more species are becoming extinct. Day flies have a life span of one da...more
In each of these volumes, Vaughan brings up some interesting points. Dr. Mann points out that, the longer this plague goes on, the more species are becoming extinct. Day flies have a life span of one da...more
First Line: "I have to get out of Boston."
Yorick continues to be surprised by the various responses of women to his existance, as he and his monkey are quite possibly the last male beings on the planet. In his search to locate the scientific information to clone himself to aide in the continuation of the human species and to find his girlfriend Beth, he is pursued by a ravenous, man-hating cult which includes his sister and protected by a seemingly peaceful town of women with a big secret. I rea...more
Yorick continues to be surprised by the various responses of women to his existance, as he and his monkey are quite possibly the last male beings on the planet. In his search to locate the scientific information to clone himself to aide in the continuation of the human species and to find his girlfriend Beth, he is pursued by a ravenous, man-hating cult which includes his sister and protected by a seemingly peaceful town of women with a big secret. I rea...more
Not as strong in overall execution as the first volume, Unmanned, but good in the details. Further dissection of the Daughters of the Amazons and juxtaposition of that cult with the contained, more ordered world created by former female prisoners makes it worth the read, however (look forward to the last two issues for thematic clarity). The artwork remains consistent throughout, none of it jaw-dropping, but with good shading work to define the emotions drifting across each page--with the sunset...more
I actually liked this volume better than the first one. From a story standpoint it's a little more interesting.
It still suffers from using too-common literary references. Some of them irked me a good deal, like seriously, come on, how does an English major not know what "crossing the Rubicon" means? The pop culture references also were a bit cutaneous: Anyone who has seen Back to the Future would have made the connection without an explicit mention.
I had a problem, too, with the excessive use of...more
It still suffers from using too-common literary references. Some of them irked me a good deal, like seriously, come on, how does an English major not know what "crossing the Rubicon" means? The pop culture references also were a bit cutaneous: Anyone who has seen Back to the Future would have made the connection without an explicit mention.
I had a problem, too, with the excessive use of...more
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Okay, it's definitely, definitely, gotten a lot more interesting than the first volume (Unmanned). The plot is starting to pick up pace, and I'm becoming attached to the characters.
Still not liking the way certain things are portrayed, and the little sibling tiff near the end was kind of detracting and annoying, but those are minor. There's a lot of underlying social issues that are being implied and touched upon, and it's not exactly subtle. I'm not reading into them too much at this stage see...more
Still not liking the way certain things are portrayed, and the little sibling tiff near the end was kind of detracting and annoying, but those are minor. There's a lot of underlying social issues that are being implied and touched upon, and it's not exactly subtle. I'm not reading into them too much at this stage see...more
There's a real talent to writing a stimulating story combined with a comic book arch that doesn't bore. Vaughan doesn't fail. He's something to emulate for the modern story teller. Fun, comedic...serious when necessary. Doesn't take himself too seriously, yet doesn't allow what could be a standard comic book musing to be overcome by what could be comic ridicule. He plays his cards right (at least throughout the first two books of the Y series he does), and he wins. You WILL enjoy this, and you W...more
Having establishes his premise in the first volume, Brian K. Vaughan is free to complete an actual story arc in this one. As Yorick, Agent 355, and Dr. Mann head across country to recover samples for use in Dr. Mann's experiments, many parties are in pursuit for their own agendas.
Forced to take a detour into a small town in Ohio, we discover that not everywhere has fallen apart and some people are managing quite well for themselves. Still, the town holds a secret and when our heroes disocver th...more
Forced to take a detour into a small town in Ohio, we discover that not everywhere has fallen apart and some people are managing quite well for themselves. Still, the town holds a secret and when our heroes disocver th...more
This volume went down faster than the first! After the initial set up of multiple plot lines in the first volume, I expected a long game before they started converging, but was pleasantly surprised at how quickly the Yorick and Hero threads crossed (and the tense stand-off in mysterious Marrisville). Of course, issue-by-issue, that would have taken the better portion of a year, but whatever. Again, I love how each issue expands the what ifs of the core event - and how the Amazons capitalize on t...more
It's difficult to have sympathy for the main character when he behaves so frequently like a jackass. I still find the execution of this series vaguely offensive, as if the whole world would turn into a scene from "Mad Max" if there were no men around. The extreme feminists who devote their lives to hunting down the last man on earth are pretty ridiculous. And what's with so many of the women being such wusses around guns? Our heroes are facing death at the hands of unarmed muggers, and one slaps...more
Maailman ainoana kaksilahkeisena mystiseltä epidemialta säästyneen Yorick Brownin matka jatkuu kohti Kaliforniaa, jossa saattaa odottaa vastaus kaikkien huulilla polttelevaan kysymykseen: mikä tappoi miehet lähes sukupuuttoon? Mukana menossa nähdään muun muassa radikaalien feministien murharyhmä, pieni kylällinen omalaatuisia marrisvillelaisia, korttejaan piilossa pitävä agentti 355 ja kapusiiniapina.
Brian K. Vaughanin käsikirjoittama "Y: the Last Manin" numerot 6-10 yhteen kokoava albumi on tas...more
Brian K. Vaughanin käsikirjoittama "Y: the Last Manin" numerot 6-10 yhteen kokoava albumi on tas...more
This volume is really heavy on the Amazons, which is unfortunate, because in my opinion, the Amazons are to real feminists what blackface performers are to actual black people. The Amazons are the authors' completely un-subtle representations of everything that people (especially men, but even some women) fear about feminists: They want to castrate men (and not always figuratively)! They want to rule the world! They hate childrearing, domesticity, common decency, and basic morals! Aahhhhh! Hide...more
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Born in Cleveland in 1976, Brian K. Vaughan is the Eisner, Harvey, and Shuster Award-winning writer and co-creator of the critically acclaimed comics series Y: The Last Man, Runaways, and Ex Machina (picked as one of the ten best works of fiction of 2005 by Entertainment Weekly).
Recently named "Writer of the Year" by Wizard Magazine, and one of the “top ten comic writers of all time” by Comic Boo...more
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