Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned in Queereaders

Sep 21, 2010 Nancy rated it really liked it

Shelves: library-books, sf-fantasy, feminism-and-gender-studies, post-apocalyptic-dystopia, graphic-novels

I haven’t read a comic book since I was a child, saving my measly allowance for Archie and his friends. Once I discovered my mother’s Harold Robbins novels, I never went back to comics…until now.

A number of my Goodreads friends enjoy graphic novels (as they are called now), so I became curious and asked my friend Kemper for a recommendation. Y: The Last Man was perfect for me to start with. I love post-apocalyptic stories and wanted some light, easy reading between school books.

A plague that des ...more

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Dec 14, 2012 Fr. Andrew rated it really liked it

Shelves: graphic-novels-comics

So far the previous lengthy essay arguing that this comic series was sexist is not getting my concurrence. The problem with the Amazons is that they speak in stilted cliches, political fundamentalism that's a bit annoying to read. But converts are like that, and it's easy to get converts during a cataclysm. So I forgive this largely but I do feel it keeps the book from a five-star status. 355, Yorick, and Ampersand are interesting characters, and the world they are living in is equally fascinati ...more

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Sep 28, 2008 Lobeck rated it it was ok

Shelves: comics-scifi, comics

The story moves along at a fast past and it's interesting. That's the good news.

The bad news? The premise is that every individual with a Y chromosome spontaneously died out for some unknown reason - except Yorick: the "last man alive." Yick. Never mind that there are trans men sans y chromosome still alive. And oh hurray gender essentialism - distilling gender down to a chromosome.

And what do the women do? Well, there's a feminazi group called Daughter of the Amazons who cut off one breast and ...more

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