Y: The Last ManVol 1: Unmanned
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra
2002
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Y: The Last ManVol 2: Cycles
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra
2003
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Y: The Last ManVol 3: One Small Step
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra
2004
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Y: The Last ManVol 4: Safeword
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra
2004
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Y: The Last ManVol 5: Ring of Truth
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra
2005
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Y: The Last ManVol 6: Girl on Girl
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra
2005
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Y: The Last ManVol 7: Paper Dolls
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra
2006
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Y: The Last ManVol 8: Kimono Dragons
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra
2006
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Y: The Last ManVol 9: Motherland
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra
2007
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Y: The Last ManVol 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, Saga, Preacher, The Walking Dead, The Stand, The Sword, FreakAngels, Echo.
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