World Famous Comics: Unmanned (Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1)
Unmanned (Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1)
By: Brian K. Vaughan Publisher: Vertigo Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Vertigo Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 128 Publication Date: January 02, 2003 Release Date: January 02, 2003
Product Description: The series that has taken the US by storm comes to the UK in the first of an all-new Titan graphic novel series! From writer Brian K. Vaughan (Swamp Thing, The Hood) and up and coming artist Pia Guerra comes a view of a dystopian society where suddenly - and without warning - a mysterious plague kills every living creature on the planet with a Y chromosone...in other words, no more men! Except one. Amateur escape artist Yorick Brown has somehow survived. It's now a very different world, and his unique status is far from privileged. If they can't exploit Yorick, the new world powers may just decide his usefulness is at an end!
Great Graffic Novel Y the last man is a story about the last human male ( and his pet monkey ) after all of the world's male mammals have expired. The graffic novel takes a creative new idea for the environment of the story and adds interesting characters, story twists, and halarious results of a world without men. It is truely engaging to follow Yorick on his quest. I would suggest buy all of the vol.s at once because your going to be itching find out what happens next after the first installment.
Best series of the Decade. There's not much I can add that hasn't already been said; I really just wanted to get another 5-star review on the book. Really, this series is simply the best series of the decade, and the best work of fiction I've read since Watchmen. This series means so much to me, and as I read it Yorick became like my best friend. He's such a relatable character. In this first volume, the story is set up and the characters introduced. The action begins right in the first few pages. When I first gave this series a try, I absolutely could not wait to read volume 2. Action, humor, heartbreak...this book really does have everything. If you're still on the fence on reading it, do yourself a favor and pick this book up. You'll soon be collecting the whole series.
A great start for a great promise The premise is actually very basic: what if all the mammals with a Y cromossome (the males) suddenly died all over the earth, and the only males surviviors were a young guy named Yorick and his pet monkey, named Ampersand? The way Vaughan, the writer, works on it is what makes the difference: the characters have potential and are complex, even appering for the first time in this series and in this series only.
This is actually one of the best things: Here, Vaughan works with something new, and doesn't talk or mention any superheroes (and their complicated universe) at all, and that's something very good for the ones who never read comics os read very few. The plot also keeps, on these first issues (I could only read those), not so complicated, but promisses to get more complex as the story goes on.
In short, the plot, the cliffhangers, the characters, the drawings, the storytelling and even the references to pop culture: everithing seems fit very well on this promising series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra.
And reviewed by me.
Shelley's concept in post-9/11 times. This is the first TPB of the comic series Y: The Last Man. It gathers together the first five issues of the series run and serves as a reasonable introduction to the main conceit of the title: that all men have been wiped out by an unspecified condition.
Of course, you'd probably prefer that the last man alive was someone a bit more capable than an Eng Lit grad (and escapologist) who comes armed with a Capuchin monkey. But this is what we have to deal with, and it's reasonably satisfying. I don't know that there'll be deep exploration of tricky themes here (as in Grant Morrison's Invisibles, say) but it's certainly on par with Preacher. It won't set the world on fire, but it doesn't cover itself in shame, either.
There seems to be a lot of criticism of this series, but I think it's worth a read. Yes, it's a refresh of an old idea - take Mary Shelley's The Last Man as a starting point, perhaps - but it's worth reading in that it contains so much of the anxiety that's been with us post-9/11. The series was published in 2002, but it's obvious through the tone pervading these initial issues that survivor guilt and the experiences following those attacks inform what goes on here.
This is an easy volume to like. It sets up relatively likeable characters, a classic sci-fi situation and a cadre of international forces struggling against each other. It's worth a look.
Love it! This is an awesome graphic novel. Mind you, I am on book four, so I don't know what will happen, but I LOVE IT so far! The main characters are engaging and they don't let out a clue as to what caused all the men to die, and why Yoreck lives. But it's fun trying to figure it out.
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