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Tongues of Flame (#24-25). California! And though this is another short story that only features Yorick, Vaughan manages to make it feel entirely important and tense. Plus, there's some great character study for Yorick, growing out of the previous story, and a nice, harrowing flashback [7+/10].Hero's Journey (#26). It's great putting together the pieces of Hero's story, and perhaps giving us a little empathy for the insane monster that we saw in the first two years of this book. The dead-person-...

The last few volumes of this series have left me feeling lukewarm. But, this volume brought it all back to the enjoyment I found in volume one. Action, humor, mystery and all of it clicking with the perfect flow to keep me engaged. I am loving it!The artwork continues to impress. I have seen a few graphic novel series where the quality of the art seems to drop off. It's like they feel they don't have to try as hard once you are already engaged. The best analogy I can think of is how you can swit...

Notes: Grade and review pending re-read. Collective review for volumes 5-6 can be found here: Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Three.*The name of this book is Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5: Ring of Truth, not, as Goodreads insists, "Ring of Truth." This is due to their myopic policy that a comic book with both a volume number and subtitle shall be listed here only by the subtitle. Every comic book reader with more than a passing interest knows this is fundamentally incorrect. Refer to this bo...

Brian K. Vaughan's writing is just as clever as always. The artwork has been just as consistent as the writing. Amazing so far.

2017 read: Y makes it to Cali, only for his now seemingly obviously unbalanced sister, Hero, to find him dire personal jeopardy after the attack of the Setauket Ring! Y believes what they took from him kept him immune from the calamitous plague, but is that true? The Setauket Ring also want something from Agent 355. With the real antagonists making bigger moves the wider story is slowly beginning to be revealed. Some seriously competent long-form plotting! 8.5 out of 12

Do you see how the ring glistens like gold in one light...And silver in the next? This represents the male and female sides which all of us possess.Volume 5: Ring of Truth continues to be strong and interesting. Y: The Last Man is about the only man ("The Last Man") to survive a mysterious plague that wiped out every other male of all the species on the planet ("every mammal with a Y chromosome).This volume starts with Tongues of Flame and ends with Ring of Truth."My name`s Toyota.""Wh-What?""Ye...

Very readable but it's still not as awesome as I had been led to believe.Though you do finally find out a bit more about what makes Hero tick. Her character arc takes a turn towards potentially not being an asshole by the end of it. I'm still not a fan of Hero, though. A lot of women have shitty stuff happen to them and they don't end up being crazy rage monsters who target innocent people.Yorick gets busy with Beth 2.0 - a pretty blonde who gets all of Yorick's geeky references and has been tak...

Oh my gosh, am I still reading this series? Yes, yes I am. And, psh, I’m only half-way through. I think it’s time to do a little cost/benefit analysis and make some decisions. Continue reading, hoping for a revival, hoping that the last two books were just mediocre anomalies? Or cut my losses and say farewell to Yorick and the gang before I sink any more of my hard-earned duckets into a story that seems to be devolving with each consecutive volume. Shit. I think I’m going to have to stick it out...

Damn. These are so good. I don't want to read them all in a go but I just can't top reading them. Will have to pick up Vol. 9 and 10 on Friday since those are the only ones I am missing. If you guys haven't started this series yet started now. this series just gets more and more intense.

This series continues to be so incredibly strong, I can't recommend it enough.In this collection, we find out more about Hero as she struggles to "deprogram" herself from her past as a member of The Amazons. Also, Yorick meets another woman who shares the same name as his missing girlfriend, Beth, and establishes an instant connection.Probably the biggest part of The Ring of Truth is that we found out why Yorick and Ampersand survived the plague. Well, sort of. We're still unaware of what caused...

The best one so far!!!!

The last half gets 3 stars. First part gets 1 star. I had to stop reading this at the beginning. It was so blasphemous I had to put it down. Not my cup of tea and made me a little sick to my stomach to have read it. After that, I had a hard time enjoying the rest of the book. I don't like reading blasphemous material, and I really don't like reading stuff that's written purely for the act of being blasphemous. Why go there? It added nothing to the story and could just as easily have not been in

I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!

This is issue was AMAZING! Everything you ever loved about Brian K Vaughan is in this. Good plot, great character development, crazy action, fantastic plot twists and reall funny as well. Apart from the first one this is probably my favourite volume yet!(Also what happened with Beth? Give me MORE!!! And once gain: not cool Yorrick, not cool)

Okay more character building.So far this series has more been about the characters and less about the WHY and that's been great so what does this arc offer? More of the same good character goodness.World: The art has been great so far and it's just as good as it was before so nothing to report. The world building here is actually quite substantial this time around. With the other ring, the ninja, the church and also the stuff with Mann there is certainly a lot of world building. It's still a ste...

Like I have been repeating in front of all the previous reviews of this series, this is my second time reading this series and I plan on doing the same to the few other series like Preacher and Transmetropolitan, etc. This volume contained three story arcs and all three were good and the third arc was the one where the volume took its name from.Love it. This Series is the story of the last man on earth. Last pair of males on earth he and his monkey. All the other males of all the species are dea...

Two years, a trip from the east coast to the west coast, and multiple murders later, Yorick finally gets laid.I know this doesn't seem like much of a milestone, but come on. It's been two years and he's the only man alive in a whole world full of horny women and it's THIS GUY who's being faithful to someone he was proposing to over the phone when everyone started dying who is left to repopulate the planet? She's on the other side of the world and it took him a month to get out of NYC!Sometimes y...

I was really surprised by volume 5. I've gone through 4 already and no improvement was in sight (you might have noticed that I was a tiny bit annoyed by Yorick).At the very start we see Yorick walking into a church, blaming God for the disaster, calling him a fucking asshole. He came to repent for killing a girl (ends up sleeping with Beth II). Usually, I'd rant at this point about what a miserable shit he is, but he says himself: I combine the worst attributes of the adolescent boys who teased...

Well...found out how Yorick survived the plague.