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Loading... Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores (original 2008; edition 2008)by Brian Vaughan, Pia Guerra (Illustrator)
Work InformationY: The Last Man Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores by Brian K. Vaughan (Author) (2008)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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? 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.
Like the best sci-fi writers, Guerra and Vaughan weave their story out of canny and provocative speculation over what an ''unmanned'' planet would mean. Yorick and 355's odyssey reveals a world in which the police and fire departments are annihilated, and supermodels take jobs as garbage collectors cleaning up the dead. Is contained inContainsAwardsNotable Lists
Y: The Last Man is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey, Ampersand, and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his long-lost girlfriend and discover why he is the last man on Earth. Yorick Brown's long journey through an Earth populated only by women comes to a dramatic, unexpected conclusion in this final volume. No library descriptions found. |
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