Y: The Last Man - Deluxe Edition, Book 1

Hardcover, 256 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2008 by Vertigo/ DC Comics.

ISBN:
978-1-4012-1921-5
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4 stars (26 reviews)

Y: THE LAST MAN, winner of three Eisner Awards and one of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling comic books series of the last decade, is that rare example of a page-turner that is at once humorous, socially relevant and endlessly surprising.

Written by Brian K. Vaughan (LOST, PRIDE OF BAGHDAD, EX MACHINA) and with art by Pia Guerra, this is the saga of Yorick Brown—the only human survivor of a planet-wide plague that instantly kills every mammal possessing a Y chromosome. Accompanied by a mysterious government agent, a brilliant young geneticist and his pet monkey, Ampersand, Yorick travels the world in search of his lost love and the answer to why he's the last man on earth.

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1 star

Digging into the art of this volume, as I said initially, this is a very proficient and technically fine book. Despite a mistake where I thought people changed up a lot, there was a very consistent team on the comic. Personally I feel that for a Vertigo title so far, my initial impression is it's a tad bit bland visually. Not bad, and very accessible, but yeah.

As far as different intersectionalities being explored in this first volume, gender was obviously a huge focus. And while this sort of focus generally means that the reader gets to learn more about the subject matter with Y The Last Man this focus only means the reader gets to learn more about the honestly stupid way the patriarchy were writing "women" in the early 2000s. Although some people have been holding onto this trend ever since, it does appear that Vaughan has moved …

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