2017 read: Y, still in the care of Culper Ring Agent 355 continues heading West, as survivor guilt begins to take its toll on the last man. The last thing they need, is to run into Agent 777 and then ,the now all-female Sons of Arizona militia! It might be time for Agent 355 to really kick some ass! 9 out of 12 as Vaughan and co. continue with this very unpredictable journey, albeit the plotting sometimes feeling a tad contrived.

EVERYONE!!! Should read this graphic novel its hella badass and drives such a powerful message!!!! This probably one of the best thing ever!!!!

Notes: Grade and review pending re-read. Collective review for volumes 3-4 can be found here: Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Two.*The name of this book is Y: The Last Man, Vol. 4: Safeword, not, as Goodreads insists, "Safeword." 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 "Safew...

Alright! Another four stars for The Last Man! :)I still claim that the story is really interesting, fast-paced, the art is still brilliant (this time no examples, though). We also see some character development of Dr. Mann (she's gay and she cloned herself), 355 (aaand she keeps a diary) and Yorick (the development process into an idiot is complete for him now, alright).However, if you thought this review will lack bitching, unlike the first three, you're very, very wrong. WROOOONG.At the very b...

Didn't like it as much as previous books.

LOL forget what I said about the lack of a little sexual politicking in the previous volumes. This one makes up for a lot of THAT and it still manages to sweet and real and not a sleezefest.HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? Good writing. It's the only possible reason.What a trip tho. Safeword had me guessing all the way and when they finally got to Arizona, I was charmed and horrified at the same time.It's like no one will ever learn anything. And it doesn't matter what sex we are, either. All the good and

Y: The Last Man, Volume 4 SAFEWORDSafeword? You had me at hello! Oh, not that kind of safeword? Okay. I'll shut up now before I incriminate myself...Anyway, please forgive me for floating my reviews of the first three volumes of this series, but (1) I needed to refresh my memory after a 6 month Y The Last Man hiatus, and (2) I thought maybe one or two of you might have some remote interest in reading the background of the series to date (cos I'm not going to reiterate it here). Look, props defin...

I'm starting to get a bit irritated. I don't get why every woman the quartet (Yorick, 355, Dr. Mann, Ampersand) meets along the way is some kind of crazy, demented man-hater. All are toting guns and ready to shoot before asking questions. So far none of the women have really tried to seduce Yorick (really? probably the only living man around and none of these women in their prime want to jump his bones?). This volume starts off with 355 taking Yorick to get babysat by an excolleague of hers whil...

As Yorick, 355 and Dr. Mann continue on their trip to California, Vol. 4 has the most character development and immediate danger yet! Vaughn totally takes it in a completely chaotic direction; to quote one of my favorite hockey play-by-play men, Bob Cole, "Everything is happening!"Yorick really steps it up in this collection and begins to realize that he's destined for much greater than he can grasp. I mean, it takes an awful lot for him to come to that conclusion (and it's in the craziest way p...

I like Yorick more and more with each Vol. This one was again such a quick read. My eyes just flew through pages and clouds of words. And at the beginning of this one..oh my, it got a little juicier …I mean I thought something like this would happen sooner, like in the first book. But it turned out to be like a therapy session. Like intervention. Ha ha, funny psychiatric stuff! And just you wait to read about some Yorick's memory from the past. Something that happened to him when he was a kid, i...

There's a quote from Stephen King on the front or back of every book I've read so far in this series: "The best graphic novel I've ever read." Given that statement, and how terrible Y: The Last Man Vol. 4: Safeword is, one has to wonder if The King read the entire series. The second half of this volume is a story arc called Widow's Pass, and the art and some of the characters went downhill pretty badly in this section. Yorick and 355 are suddenly drawn in most of the panels looking nothing like

Hmm...I dunno, I didn't love this volume.Maybe it's been too long since I read Vol. 3?This just seemed like a gigantic downer. I realize post-apocalyptic books aren't usually laugh-fests, but this was just not doing it for me...Even the weird Sex part turned out to be sad and depressing (which is actually pretty normal I hear, when it comes to sex involving comic book readers...zing!).Here's hoping things pick up next time around...I suppose I should discuss how this was the volume where Yorick

There's some weird shit happening in this.Weird. Shit. Indeed.At first, it looks like this ex-agent goes full-on fetish crazy, but if you read on a bit it makes sense.Kind of. And it was still uncomfortable to read.But hey! It all worked out, right?Dr. Mann gets herself into a pickle with some crazies called the Sons of Arizona when she tries to talk them into letting the group go through the pass that they've blocked off. 355 shows up in time to get an ass-whopping but ultimately saves the day....

I thought that maybe this volume was taking the series in a direction that might have been a little too ridiculous for me to continue taking it seriously. However, the insanity of seeing a dominatrix appear on the pages is explained fairly enough that I felt I could give it a chance (however, it's definitely not what you expect - how is that for clickbait?)Anyway . . . after getting past that bizarreness, the last part of this volume is insanely intense and possibly some of the best I have seen

In this volume, we delve in the psyche of the protagonist. The psychological trauma that he has gone through is written and revealed in a brilliant fashion. However, I found this book to be a bit too ridiculous at times. Despite this, it has kept me intrigued.

"Endings have to be earned."It's like my old man used to say......Everything looks better after a good night's sleep.Volume 4: Safeword brought the excitement back into the series. It is now going to be, going forward, so very 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).And, these are the words of The Last Man: Christ, how many more wome...

This series is definitely starting to grow on me.

Wow just when I thought this story couldn't get any worse. Talk about an excuse to put S&M into a story line jesus christ what a STRETCH. Throw in a story about child molestation and threaten to rape someone and they have an epiphany? what? What the hell is this psycho garbage? Laughably terrible the only reason this volume didn't get a 1 star is that the story with the Sons of Arizona in the second half is at least mediocre. Of course, just after learning not to endanger himself and reaching se...

"Okay, that is the worst fake chick voice I have ever heard. And look at your hands! You're totally a dude."This one is super out there, but I loved it. The second half is particularly awesome--lots of crazy happenings and some new interesting characters. Yorick is growing on me. In the first two volumes I thought he was pretty damn annoying, but now I am appreciating his dumb humor far more. The snippets of backstory given about him made this volume feel a little more deep than the previous vol...

Officially giving up on this series. So sick of Vaughan’s use of slurs.