Punk's review
Y: The Last Man Vol. 3: One Small Step
by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Paul Chadwick
Punk's review
Y: The Last Man Vol. 3: One Small Step by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Paul Chadwick
Punk's review
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graphic-novel
Graphic Novel. Here we pick up a Russian agent, make a stop in Kansas for some astronauts, and then have a two-issue tangent with a group of thespians.
This is another reread, and it stands up to it well. I really liked Natalya and the astronaut storyline. I could have lived without the theater troupe -- it was just too meta and in-jokey ("Not unless the owner's named Brown!" and "I'm the last man, shouldn't my name be more...Shakespearean?"), but I think it might actually have been less annoying the second time around; maybe because I wasn't waiting for a payoff that never came. If they'd tied it into the main storyline, I would have been there. Instead it comes off as a clumsy distraction.
And, something I noticed about the art, Guerra's started adding a bit more detail to his work. Yorick's looking more rugged, less cartoony. I like it. Also I love J.G. Jones' Dr. Mann. She doesn't even look Asian in the book, but on the cover for issue 11, she looks refre...more
This is another reread, and it stands up to it well. I really liked Natalya and the astronaut storyline. I could have lived without the theater troupe -- it was just too meta and in-jokey ("Not unless the owner's named Brown!" and "I'm the last man, shouldn't my name be more...Shakespearean?"), but I think it might actually have been less annoying the second time around; maybe because I wasn't waiting for a payoff that never came. If they'd tied it into the main storyline, I would have been there. Instead it comes off as a clumsy distraction.
And, something I noticed about the art, Guerra's started adding a bit more detail to his work. Yorick's looking more rugged, less cartoony. I like it. Also I love J.G. Jones' Dr. Mann. She doesn't even look Asian in the book, but on the cover for issue 11, she looks refre...more
