Pia GuerraReviews

A fun end to a fun series.

Reviewed at No Flying, No Tights.

I love this series! Excellently written and illustrated, the struggles Yorick has in the post apocalyptic world are things I never would have imagined. Great storytelling. It shows what I would describe as a realistic reaction to the apocalypse happening and being put in a crazy situation.

that was some bullshit.

(This is a review of the entire series!)
I was very excited about this graphic novel - a dystopian world in which all men but one mysteriously die? But I was hugely disappointed, as this isn't the feminist utopia I was looking for. It's anything but, and the fact that this title was written by a man should have warned me. It's very obviously a title written by men for men, as it's pretty much every man's fantasy to have a world of women at his disposal, isn't it?

Well, the comic cleverly tries to avoid such implications by making Yorick, the last man, a very sensitive, fairly unmasculine, English major. He doesn't take advantage of his situation at all, rather, he is on a 5-year quest around the world to find his girlfriend, who was in Australia when the men a died (while Yorick was in the US).

And that's where the comic started bothering me - we're presented with a post apocalyptic world in which society has broken down. No more phones, no more electricity, no more planes. I find it utterly unrealistic that a world full of women would be unable to maintain the basic functionalities of society. Of course there might be an adjustment phase, but after that, women would be perfectly capable of doing anything men can do. It just takes some organizational skills, which I daresay women are much better at than men.

The comic also displays it's dystopia full of gangs and criminality. Again, I find this very unrealistic. I don't think women would go quite as far as the ridiculous Daughters of the Amazon are going. The comic is full of similar fanatics, like the Israeli soldiers who want to claim the last man for the future of their country. Knowing what I know about Israel, I find this pretty unlikely.

The whole conclusion to why the wipeout happened was not very satisfying either, it was rather ridiculous. There would have been much better scenarios as to why all males suddenly died.

Allover, this title was a huge disappointment for me. Where is the feminist utopia in which women lead a better world?

Story: 6.5 / 10
Characters: 6.5
Setting: 8
Prose: 6
Art: 7

Whoa! Crazy! Crazy awesome. Hella violence and hella freaky.

Monkey poop? What?

It's frustrating to have to read this one little piece at a time. Though a few questions are answered in this installation, it wasn't very satisfying. Still, I'll soldier on because I want to know how it ends.

These should probably all be 4s, but, y'know.

This was my first book taken out from the Minet Library, near Camberwell. Wish I'd joined earlier!

Great opening of what looks like a fascinating story.

Yorick is such a Dumb Boy. Luckily I love a Dumb Boy so I find him a fun protagonist. An annoying and kinda unwilling sidekick to 355's determined secret agent.

Lots of blah blah blah in this one.

Glad I tried another-this was much better than the last one.

The last man on Earth can be a real moron sometimes. I was glad to finally see a little of what's happening with Beth, but the ship vs. submarine storyline mostly felt like filler until they get to Japan. The 355 and Dr. Mann business came out of nowhere, at least 355's side of it. There and gone, apparently just for the heck of it. And the business with the swashbuckling captain? Irritating. What was with the love declaration towards the end, anyway? Was he supposed to be in love with the captain?

Anyway, I still want to see how it ends, but this series is kind of hit or miss for me.

Well, that's the last one. Overall, I liked the series but didn't love it. What I liked the most was the dialogue, especially when Yorrick, 355 and Dr. Mann had lines. Natalya was pretty entertaining too, and there were some good action scenes. The earlier on-the-road issues were more enjoyable to me than the later ones wrapping up everything.
As a whole, I give Y:The Last Man 3 stars.

I'm still curious to see how this ends up, but this was my least favorite issue so far. The intervention was icky and their new foes were about as one-dimensional as the Amazons.

Still going back back and forth with this series, but I really liked this volume-good action and some very funny writing.

I like this series well enough. I liked Brian K Vaughan's Runaways more; still, this is an interesting concept. Yorrick's humorous lines are my favorite thing about the comic. The Amazon group is probably my least favorite-I don't find them very convincing, especially Hero's role in the group. She strikes me as very easily led, which, given the references to her childhood relationship with Yorrick and the strength of conviction her mother, doesn't seem to match what we know of her character.
This issue got a higher rating than the last because, well, there was a lot less Amazon action for one. I also liked Natalya, and her interactions with Yorrick and 355 in this one. Also, the twist of Shakespeare being performed by all-female actors was a fun addition to this volume
Not sure how I'll feel about the whole thing once I finish it, but I do plan to stick with the series.

I know, I know, greatest thing every written... but it didn't do anything for me.
Fell a bit to the boring side. Art was only OK.

i feel like joss whedon just loaned the knife he uses to stab people in the heart to a group of really creative and talented but sorta inadequate proselytizers.

3.5

This is an interesting concept, but I vastly underestimated how painful it would be to immerse myself in a world where all but one of the men have died. (No men around? What? But...I'd miss them. Can't we just fix it? Bring 'em all back? I don't want to be alone with millions of women....) I'll probably try reading at least the next volume, but beyond that I make no promises.