Tuesday 11 January 2011

Books: Y: The Last Man

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Y: The Last Man
Vol 1: Unmanned
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra

2002



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Y: The Last Man
Vol 2: Cycles
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra

2003



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Y: The Last Man
Vol 3: One Small Step
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra

2004



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Y: The Last Man
Vol 4: Safeword
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra

2004



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Y: The Last Man
Vol 5: Ring of Truth
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra

2005



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Y: The Last Man
Vol 6: Girl on Girl
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra

2005



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Y: The Last Man
Vol 7: Paper Dolls
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra

2006



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Y: The Last Man
Vol 8: Kimono Dragons
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra

2006



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Y: The Last Man
Vol 9: Motherland
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra

2007



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Y: The Last Man
Vol 10: Whys and Wherefores
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra

2008



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The set-up. (This is what the call "high-concept"): Every mammal in the world with a Y chromosome is dead. The only exceptions: Yorick Brown a young amateur escape artist (who talks just like Peter Parker) and his Capuchin monkey, Ampersand (which must be said is a great name for a monkey). Because - yeah - while there's been loads and loads of "The Last Man on Earth" style entertainments (from Charlton Heston to Will Smith): no one's ever really touched on the idea embedded within that cliché of depicting a world where the woman are still alive too. So: Let the adventures begin. etc. 

When it's being not as smart as it seems to think that it is (oh look men and women are different and stuff social critique blah) this is a comic that provides lots of good solid trashy fun. Betrayals. Double-Crossing. Unlikely friendships. Unrequited love. And a fanatical homicidal motorcycle group called the Daughters of the Amazon. It's cheap pulpy stuff - but when it's been done with such an infectious sense of joy and when each cliffhanger is more omg than the last - there isn't much cause for complaint [1]. Brian K. Vaughan went on to write episodes of Lost which - to me - makes perfect sense (and you know speaking as a die-hard Lost fanatic: I mean that in a good way). There's ten collected volumes: read them in order.

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[1] And I liked the little nod to Preacher. You know - it's respectful.

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Links: I Am Not The Beastmaster Review, The M0vie Blog Review of the Deluxe Edition Book 1 / The M0vie Blog Review of the Deluxe Edition Book 2 / The M0vie Blog Review of the Deluxe Edition Book 3 / The M0vie Blog Review of the Deluxe Edition Book 4 / The M0vie Blog Review of the Deluxe Edition Book 5, Broken Frontier Article: Book Marx: Y: The Last Man, Broken Frontier Article: Why Y Works, AV Club Article.

Further reading: Ex Machina, SagaPreacher, The Walking DeadThe StandThe Sword, FreakAngels, Echo.

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