In typical comic book male-centric fashion, this series wonders what life would be like if all men died spontaneously...except for one. I suppose if we're trying to put ourselves in the head of an early-nineties comic book reading teen, this might feel innovative. Unfortunately, I find that innovative in the world of comics is pretty much Iron Age for the rest of literature. How does Vaughan manage to make a series with gender issues at its center so bizarrely sexist? Example: In a world where a...

Ok so maybe it's just me but I found this series to be incredibly chauvinist. I know I'm gonna get flamed for it, so many ppl rave about it. I APPRECIATED IT but the premise and execution and what the women were doing, boy oh boy. I'm gonna shut up and not review this. Check box'd.

So there's this thing that happens in post-apocalypse stories that I need to talk to you about. You know how in a zombiepocalypse story we occassionally receive hints that it might be better for the women to stay safe so they can make babies? Usually it's only hints, and the male characters don't seem to want to offend the post-feminist sensibilities of the women, so instead the women tote guns and put their wombs at risk of becoming a zombie-buffet. But everyone gets along-ish, and there are us...

Well, I get why everyone LOOOVES this book but some of it just rubbed me the wrong way. Like I don't understand why the entire world just stops functioning completely. Are there no female engineers or scientists or electricians in the entirety of the world?

This book is such a neat concept, but there's 4 things I'm stuck on.1. it's a book about a world run by women after all the men die, yet it's still told from the POV of a man because conveniently !!!! one survives. I think I would have loved this more if we were given a story of a world with just all women, because heaven knows we could survive without that one man. 2. This book was way, way, way, way more political than I was expecting it to be. The mother of the MC works in Washington so a lot...

Wow! I knew this was going to be good, but I'm actually blown away. I need Volume 2!!

Ask a comic-book geek what the greatest graphic novel of all time was, and at least 9 out of 10 will tell you it's "Watchmen". And there's no denying Watchmen deserves the accolades it gets, as it quite effectively reinvented the graphic novel genre. However, if you asked THIS comic-book geek what the greatest graphic novel of all time was, and I would instantly tell you it's "Y The Last Man"!The book starts out with an intriguing premise...a mysterious plague instantly kills off every man on th...

If you are a woman,You might have to sleep with meSince I'm the Last Man on EarthAnd there ain't nothing wrong with meLoudon Wainwright IIIMeet Yorick, an unemployed English major with moderate-to-poor computer skills. He lives on ramen noodles. And, oh yeah, his hobby is magic.You probably wouldn't sleep with him if he was the...well, nevermind.There he is, ladies - The Last Man on Earth.The dating pool has just gotten a little smaller thanks to a mysterious plague that has wiped out all males,...

In the summer of 2002, an unknown "plague" destroys every mammal with a Y chromosome, killing every male man and animal on Earth and thus eliminating 48% of the global population, or approximately 2.9 billion men. Man, the population of the Earth was small back then. Today, that would be 3.79 billion men, not even 20 years later. Yep, this is one seriously overpopulated planet.In the aftermath of this "plague", one man, Yorick, and his male monkey Ampersand, who he has been hopelessly trying to

I discovered this series randomly while looking through graphic novels on Hoopla. I had never heard of it before but recognized the author. The premise sounded interesting (view spoiler)[something kills all but one man on the planet (hide spoiler)] so I decided to give it a go. I am glad I did! The story has been great so far! Every page had me interested in finding out what happens next. Also, of all the "apocalyptic" scenarios I have seen, this is the most creative by far.I am looking forward...

Yorick Brown is that guy who can't hold down a job. Plays with magic..and he is the last man on earth. Something has killed off everything male on the planet. He and his pet monkey are all that's left. Now gangs of women called the Amazons, a bunch of Republicans and his brainwashed sister Hero are all wanting a piece of Yorick. Either to kill him or mate him. He just wants to find his fiance in Australia.This was a fun book. I thought it was going to go very political but quickly beca

Notes: Grade and review pending re-read. Collective review for volumes 1-2 can be found here: Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book One.*The name of this book is Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned, not, as Goodreads insists, "Unmanned." 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 book as "Unman...

2017 read: Yorick Brown, AKA 'Y' appears to be the only male left alive on Earth after a Y-chromosome carrier killing plague swept the Earth! There's another male though, his pet monkey Ampersand. As the world hastily tries to reorganise itself Y and Ampersand set out to solve the mystery, and find his girlfriend.Another Brian K. Vaughan sci-fi jam, which is an innovative and gripping dystopian series with a superb cast of back up characters. 9 out of 12.

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...

The story started out so well: fast-paced, intriguing..I can see it's a dude comic, the main character ends up being the last man left on a planet full of allll kinds of women! No matter what kind of an ugly twat you might wanna be, some woman will want you. Yessss!I see half-naked blonde, beachy-style woman, some ex-models running around, army women, special op women, scientist women. That's ookayyy with me. It is a dude comic, after all, no?Then came this:Yorick (main char): I'm not afraid of

A sort of reversal of the film 'Children of Men', Y the Last Man is sometimes difficult to take seriously. The storytelling itself is not bad, though it sometimes falls into the faults of Lost, with endless, predictable hardship. It is an interesting concept, and Vaughan at least connects himself tangentially to the literary tradition, but these connections are often too flimsy or too coincidental in construction.The worst crime of all may be that one keeps feeling that Yorick is standing in as