World Famous Comics: Y: The Last Man, Volume 9: Motherland
Y: The Last Man, Volume 9: Motherland
By: Brian K. Vaughan Publisher: Vertigo Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Vertigo Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 144 Publication Date: May 09, 2007 Release Date: May 02, 2007
Product Description: Featured in The New York Times and on National Public Radio,Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed andunmotivated slacker who discovers he is the only male left in the worldafter a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Ychromosome.Accompanied by his mischievous monkey, Ampersand, and themysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to findhis long-lost girlfriend and discover why he is the last man on earth.This volume of the critically acclaimed series features Yorick and Agent355 preparing for their ultimate quest to reunite the last man with hislost love, while the person, people or thing behind the disaster that wipedout half of humanity is revealed!
THIS SERIES RULES!!!! This is my favorite series. If you are going to spend the money on a series of graphic novels, this is the one. Especially first three volumes.
Apocalyptic Graphic Novel My boyfriend introduced me to this fine graphic novel series by loaning me books "The Last Man 1-3". I'm not really into comic books, so I didn't start reading it for a few months. But when I finally picked it up. I was hooked. So much so that I ordered "Last Man" volumnes 4-9. If you like apocalyptic fiction then you will love this series. Pia Guerra is a fabulous illustrator. I just can't wait till they publish "Last Man" #10. My only advice is to read them in order, otherwise you'll get lost.
Pretty Disappointing Although the premise of the series continues to hit creative paydirt with it's intriguing view on dystopia and commentary on the adaptiveness of humanity, Vaughan continues to wield his pen like a sledgehammer when it comes to character development and dynamics. Although this is not a comic about superheroes, everybody talks like Batman. The twists are predictable, and I tire of reading page after page of exposition justifying the actions of each and every character in the book.
Then again, it would be easier to read about them if any of the characters were actually interesting. Instead, this story suffers from a breadth of characters who sole identifying features are the fact that 1) character is woman and 2) character has tragic past.
I held back on previous issues because I wanted to see the finale. Though there's one trade left, this book is where we "learn" what happened to all the men. It was pretty disappointing. And seeing Yorick satirize the comic itself in the concluding scene of the story was intolerable. It was as if Vaughan were in that train car, saying, "Yeah, I'm pretty tired of this predictable BS too."
finally some resolution! I enjoyed Motherland tremendously - much more than the previous two collections. Finally, we are getting some real answers to the cause of the "gender-cide," and not just seemingly randome travels and flash backs, which I felt really bogged down the series. While it seems clear things are coming to a head, and I will regret the end of this well written series, I would rather that than have it drag on too long. Highly recommended for upper teen to mature readers.
Change is coming. Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man: Motherland (Vertigo, 2007)
Big changes for the crew in this volume. Rose has been exposed as an Australian spy, but what's anyone going to do about it when she's on her deathbed? And, in the opening scene, we get hit with the biggest upending in the series yet: the team plan to split up, with Alison staying in Asia to continue her cloning work while Yorick and 355 head for Paris to find Beth. But now they're not the only game in town, as Hero and the band from Kansas are trying to track Yorick down, while everyone's being pursued by the Israeli army... the volume ends with two stories not really related to the main storyline, "The Obituarist" and "Tragicomic". The former is about the gravediggers who plan Yorick's mother's funeral, while the latter concerns the first two comic book artists to arise after the plague. (A bit self-referential, that?) As usual, the series is great. Vaughan is doing work that stands out even during what seems to be the new golden age of comics. ****
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