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"the gendercide"Volume 2 of Y: The Last Man continues with the storyline... It's still good and interesting...Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles is about the only man ("The Last Man") to survive a mysterious plague that wipes out every other male of all the species on the planet ("every mammal with a Y chromosome
This second collection continues the journey of Yorick Brown, Agent 355, and Dr. Mann across the United States following Yorick's finding himself the last man on earth. There are some threads building intrigue with the Israeli army, and a diversion into a town that's doing just fine with just women around to run it. I'm a little put off by Yorick's sister's story line with the Amazons since it seems to me that women in this new world would be more likely to be pragmatic and getting to work, rath...
LOVED IT!
*4.5 stars* Wow! This was REALLY good, I definitely enjoyed this more then the last trade.
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. 2: Cycles, not, as Goodreads insists, "Cycles." 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 "Cycles,"
2017 read: Y the Last Man and his eclectic group of survivalists begin to make their way across the country, heading for California; they have to make an unscheduled stop in Marrisville, Ohio, a small town with a kind of huge secret. The second part of this volume takes us in directions unforeseen, but the real beauty is Vaughan picking up on all the small intricacies that would occur if men were gone over such a short period of time. 8 out of 12.
The second collected edition of Y: The Last Man comic continues where the unique storyline left off. It is humorous, thought-provoking, crass, and controversial - but all of it in just the right amounts! I was a bit more invested in this one than the first because the story is now familiar to me - I often find this to be the case with graphic novel series. Now, I can't wait to see where it goes next! I am really enjoying the characters and I think they are what makes this story click. I also lik...
You know, I think that I would enjoy this series more if it weren't so full of straw feminists. The idea of the Amazons is at least conceptually sound. Given what a horribly traumatic thing the plague must have been to live through, I can see a certain number of women going around the bend in this exact way. But the execution just comes off as feminist bashing, especially since the only good women in the series so far are the ones willing to revolve their lives around the one remaining man. I do...
I think I have two problems with this story so far that prevent me from loving it. The first is that I'm not that attached to Yorick; I get that he's meant to be an "everyman," but I'm much more interested in the women around him. I want to know what happened to Hero that led to her becoming an Amazon and believing so strongly in what they had to preach. I want to know more about Agent 355 and Dr. Mann (I loved hearing a bit about their back story). Honestly, some of my favorite parts of the com...
Enjoyed this even more than the first. The series has a lot of Vaughan's trademark humour, whilst also offering different and interesting perspectives on what would happen if all men died (except one) and women inherited the earth. Though there are plenty of crazies in this post-men era, the story and themes are ultimately very feminist.
This series is shaping up to be one of my all time favorites.When we last left Yorick, he was trying to travel across the United States with the help of Agent 355 and Dr. Mann. This is especially difficult when most roadways are blocked with abandoned vehicles and other large obstacles. Therefore, the best route of travel? Train. The trip is interrupted quickly when attacked by a gang of women separate from the Amazons. Once again, their journey is thrown into disarray. To go any further in the
and there it is, the built up, the tempo, the charisma of brian k. vaughan. From the slow built up in volume one, the series has taken a sharp turn with action, suspense and page turning drama!
Second, read after 7 years and it's funny to think oh 7 Nah it's just that finally after a long time the TV series is finally out and I wanted to go through the story again but I have seen the first two episodes and it's already different from the comic series but that's alright, a book is not similar to a graphic novel and graphic novel is not similar to TV Series/Movie. We have everything medium to enjoy as per your preference. This is still brilliant and heartbreaking and I am just thankful t...
There's quite a few reviewers offended by these volumes, the way the women are portrayed isn't exactly flattering, the amazons are an awful group very stereotypical men haters, the first decent group of women we find in this volume turn out to be criminals, or junkies and it just gets a bit tedious that all the women are kinda dicks, even mann and 355 you're very wary of them, like we don't know much about their pasts yet. So many are offended, and i get that however you should have stopped read...
Before I start this review, he's a picture of all the spots I marked that needed some deep, tedious, thorough analysis! (aka bashing :D) [ok, so it's blurry but you get the point]Although the very first page made me cry in despair all over again [Yorick is trying to convince a woman to let him board the train to get out of Boston, but her reply is: With the shipping routes as fucked up as they are, the whole east coast's just about of supplies] because I simply disapprove of how the world is su...
Last book review of the year! It's a little difficult to review these individual volumes of the 10-volume graphic novel series Y: The Last Man, as they're only around 130 pages each and would be easy to spoil. Without giving too much away, Cycles moves the series forward nicely, introducing several potential love interests for Yorick, the last man on Earth and main protagonist of the series. I personally thought Cycles was far superior to Unmanned, the first volume in the series. This volume cul...
MAYBE I'm just spoiled by a glut of really great comics over the years, but while Y: The Last Man is still solid as hell, it's not quite rocking my boat yet.It's still slightly edgy, but I've read lots of comics that cursed and had nudity. That's not what makes a great story. A great story makes a great story. In this volume, I'm reminded a lot of The Walking Dead in the early years. Willing to take risks but still firmly grounded in the everyday. Not quite tipping over into outright imaginative...
The Amazons are coming! The Amazons are coming!“In the summer of 2002, a plague of unknown origin destroyed every last sperm, fetus, and fully developed mammal with a Y chromosome – with the apparent exception of one young man and his pet, a male Capuchin monkey.”And so begins book two of Y: The Last Man, where there’s a whole lotta crazy going on. The subtitle of book two is “Cycles,” and cycles can refer to many different things: motorcycles, the cycles of birth, growth and death, cycles of se...
Fall 2021 reread for the TV show. This collects the first leg of Yorick's odyssey through a world where he seems to be the last remaining male human, starting in the wild-west train yards of Washington, D.C. and pausing for a triple dose of drama in small-town Marrisville, Ohio.
As I mentioned after reading Unmanned, I gave volume two of this series a go to make sure I wasn't missing anything about it. It didn't really improve, so I feel okay in not going any further into the story. There's a very interesting premise here, which is different enough from the other "Last Man on Earth" stories I've read to pique my interest, but the final product is a bit too juvenile and ridiculous to keep it.In this volume, Yorick has made it a bit further into his journeys, accompanied