Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers that he is the only male left in the worl...
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Mar 01, 2008
Julia
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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 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 More...
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Jan 15, 2008
Lindsay
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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.
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Sep 28, 2008
Lobeck
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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 intensel
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Jul 07, 2011
Susanne
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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 (ree 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 (ree More...
Mar 01, 2011
Becky
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Jun 26, 2011
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Dec 04, 2011
Jim
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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
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Oct 16, 2011
Brandon
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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 an 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 an More...
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Jan 14, 2010
Brenda
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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 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 More...
Dec 26, 2011
Jelinas
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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 sp 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 sp More...
Oct 10, 2010
Jessi
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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 wi 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 wi More...
Mar 12, 2009
Sarah
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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 suns
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Jun 28, 2009
Curtis
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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.
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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.
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Nov 07, 2010
Bryce
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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
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Jun 15, 2011
Jeffrey
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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 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 More...
Nov 17, 2011
Peacegal
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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
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Nov 11, 2011
Jeff
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Although I have my reservations about Y: The Last Man, Brian Vaughn's intriguing storyline was strong enough to get me to take the leap from the first volume to the second. While the artwork by Guerra and Marzan is still lackluster, here in the second installment some visual improvements are in evidence, making the overall experience easier on the eye (a genuine problem with the first volume). While the overall plot circumstances are still ridiculous, and the dialog quite frankly goofy at time
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Aug 04, 2011
Matti
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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 k More...
Brian K. Vaughanin käsikirjoittama "Y: the Last Manin" numerot 6-10 yhteen k More...
Jul 30, 2009
Rebecca
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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!
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Mar 15, 2009
Shivesh
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The story picks up some serious steam in this volume. Yorick et. al. escape into a middle American town where all the ladies are escaped convicts from the local prison. The murderous Amazons track the Last Man down and still look to kill him off. Meanwhile, the Israelis continue to follow Yorick, meaning to use him for strategic advantages.
Vaughan's talent for dialogue and humor really shows in this storyline. He keeps the narrative moving swiftly and compels us to keep reading. More...
Vaughan's talent for dialogue and humor really shows in this storyline. He keeps the narrative moving swiftly and compels us to keep reading. More...
May 10, 2011
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Aug 07, 2011
Ron
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The artwork is showing some signs of improvement as the series progresses, but the dialogue is still mostly abysmal and resorts to cheap uses of cultural referents to hammer home metaphorical points (a sign of a lazy author). The plot is progressing fairly well, but the deficiencies in the story leave me unsure if I will continue. The one aspect the writer excels at is in creating cliffhangers, but anyone schooled in comics should be an expert in that device by now--a device that alone is not en
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Dec 18, 2011
Ian
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The second volume in the series improved a bit on the pacing, and the characters are a bit better defined, but not by much. The character Yorrick keeps making bizarre decisions which seem to come out of nowhere; I'm not sure whether it's just that the author has failed to characterize him enough for me to understand WHY Yorrick is making these choices (which, in the first volume, I tried to rationalize as the result of his traumatic experiences) or whether he's just having Yorrick make them to d
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Jan 29, 2011
Federiken
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Esta relectura me pareció igual de placentera que la primera, pero mucho más rica. El hecho de saber de antemano por qué pasa lo que pasa -o algo así- y qué sucede entre los saltos cronológicos aparentemente caprichosos que se van dando a lo largo de la historia (que a su vez transcurre prácticamente en tiempo real) ayuda a recomponer el todo de una manera más prolija y analizable. Es como armar un rompecabezas gigante con piezas enormes, de distintos colores y texturas y, una vez que está compl
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Mar 04, 2008
Courtney
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This graphic novel is only about 100 pages long, and most of those pages are pictures, so it's a quick and easy read. This is the second volume in a post-apocalyptic series about a world where all male mammals on earth have died. All, that is, but Yorick and his pet monkey. It may be a goofy premise, but the earth the authors and artists portray here is anything but.
Most of the world's truck drivers, airline pilots, engineers, military personnel and political leaders are now dead. I More...
Most of the world's truck drivers, airline pilots, engineers, military personnel and political leaders are now dead. I More...
Feb 22, 2008
John
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Compulsively readable, more so than the first volume. Any negative criticism I might have on the book can't cover up the fact that I ignored my clock and stayed up past 1:00 AM finishing the second volume. If you can accept the fantastic (and up to the end of volume two, unexplained) premise of a world where all the men died, and don't mind some shallow characterization (generally attached to expedient plot), this story is very easy to lose yourself in. So much so that even though I had to get u
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Nov 30, 2011
Amanda
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With the post-apocalyptic world set-up in the previous entry, Vaughan is really able to hit his stride in this one. Multiple plots and mysteries decorate the plot. The artwork continues to be consistent, easy to read, and bright. Newly featured is a delicious sense of wit that kept me laughing out loud periodically throughout the book. An improvement on the first that I highly recommend to fans of post-apocalyptic graphic novels.
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Mar 23, 2009
Paul
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I am not a hungry comic/graphic novel reader, but love the form, and when something is recommended by friends' or peoples' tastes I trust I check them out. Such was the case with this series and I am eating them up, having ordered the rest of the collection after plowing through the first three. The story reminds me of Lost in some respects, always renewed by a slew of new events, some of them intense, some a little ridiculous, but in the end, addictive, beautifully illustrated and fun.
May 08, 2011
Rachel
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Yorrick, the last man left on earth, and his companions further their adventures as they continue on their quest for...well, each seems to have a different goal, but the main one is to figure out what killed all the other men. As on any good odyssey, they encounter obstacles--and some sirens--although I hope for their sakes that it doesn't take them ten years to reach California (or Australia).
The story continues to be interesting and good. In fact, this volume is deeper and tenser, an More...
The story continues to be interesting and good. In fact, this volume is deeper and tenser, an More...
May 19, 2010
Jonathan
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This is a thrilling sci-fi comic following Yorick and his monkey, Ampersand, the only male survivors of the mysterious and sudden death of all the world's men. Now Yorick, Ampersand, and the mysterious Agent 355 must work with geneticist Dr. Mann to figure out what happened and save the world, all the while evading the Israeli Army, the Daughters of the Amazons, and the general post-apocalyptic chaos. It's a good comic, and gripping, and it will be hard to put the series down once you start.
