(Amy) Yikes. Talk about harsh. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love a good apocalypse, but this one, despite being essentially instantaneous, was remarkably wrenching. 30 pages of buildup, four pages of apocalypse in which (almost) EVERY MAN ON EARTH DIES, then the rest of the book - indeed, the rest of the series - is all aftermath. It's beautifully done, from an impact point of view. A bit of time to get to know the setting and some people, become lulled into a sense of security despite knowing it's false, then WHAM, the world as we know it comes crashing to the ground, and then we have to stumble around trying to collect the bits, with all the king's men among the casualties.

It's hard to make much of a judgment of the thing as a whole from a single volume, but I think it's a post-apocalypse story with potential, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. I'll try to write something with more substance after reading more of them.
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This goes for the whole series...
Fantastic story telling and my favorite graphic novel to date ( )

A worldwide virus kills off every male creature on earth with the exception of the main character and his pet monkey. Great series with top-of-the-field writing by Vaughn. ( )

A phenomenon causes all men on the planet to die, except one. Yorick Brown, son of an English professor and a congresswoman, and his monkey Ampersand are apparently the last males living of any species. Nobody knows why. But maybe they can keep the human race from dying out - as long as none of the crazy gangs kill Yorick first.

I thought this set up a great "what if," and had a convincing way of exploring what could happen if most males died. Yorick is an interesting guy - escape artist, English major, and surprisingly well-adjusted for being named after a skull in a play. For you other Lost fans out there, this is the comic that Hurley brings on Flight 316. Recommended for fans of science fiction; I would rate it R, primarily for language and violence. ( )

The story of amateur magician Yorick Brown and his pet monkey Ampersand, the only two male mammals known to have survived a mysterious plague that simultaneously killed virtually everything with a Y chromosome. I'd heard great things about this series, and this first volume (of 10) was a very promising start. ( )