Y: The Last Man Omnibus

Beginning in 2002, all living mammals with the Y chromosome suddenly all die, all but Yorick Brown and his pet (male) monkey, Ampersand that is. Now, they must figure out why they were the only ones to survive. Over the next 3 years, Yorick and Ampersand, along with Agent 355, and Dr. Allison Mann, trek 10,000 miles around the world in search for Yorick's girlfriend/kind of fiancé. They run into all kinds of women, those who want to help and those who would rather see Yorick dead. Can Yorick find Beth or is the whole journey a waste of time?

Collects Y: The Last Man #1-60 (the whole series)

My boss had been telling me to read this comic for nearly a whole year. I finally put it on Hold at the library so it would semi-force me to pick it show more up and read it. Oh man, was I only disappointed in myself for not reading it sooner!!

This comic had a little bit of everything a woman can be - strong, bloodthirsty, capable, brilliant, and above all, survivors. I've read a few novels recently about plagues and how different the world would be if X,Y, and Z happened (which is a bit strange since we're still dealing with Covid-19), and I just find it all fascinating.

The growth of everyone over the years is incredible as well, I never felt like anyone just suddenly switched and jumped into someone completely different. I also felt like that though there were a ton of characters, I never would get them confused (though I would forget names sometimes).

There are no shortages of ups and downs in this crazy roller coaster called Y: The Last Man. A chapter/book in the series that stood out to me was “Safeword”, where we dig deep into Yorick's past and you never look at him the same - it's also one of the big turning points for Yorick as well. Another was the final book, “Whys and Wherefores" , where it wraps everything up pretty nicely, but still sucker-punches you in all the feels. I gasped aloud so many times in that chapter I lost count.

If you'd like a graphic novel with wonderful illustrations, an amazing, creative storyline that follows the "last man on earth", Y: The Last Man will not disappoint! show less

some of this has aged well, and some of it hasn't. its not something to write home about anymore, but its an interesting idea. the politics feel pretty outdated yet somehow ahead of its time too... like the feminism feels more like 2010 up to 2016-ish

SOOOOO much of this was like a 4 star series. But there was also SOOOOO much in the last volume specifically that was just SOOOOO annoying and all the little things that had been bothering me previously all just came together in the last volume and just OMG.

I actually don't think I would recommend this series to people. There are so many better series out there. Ones that don't leave plot holes and that actually have a satisfying ending. SOOOO many things were just left unanswered and if they were answered they were not very well done.

Like SOOOO much annoys me with this series that I kinda wanna give it a 2 stars. But I read the whole 10 volumes so I was obviously invested. The main plot was intriguing overall but it's the other show more smaller plots throughout that were like WTF. Also the answer to the main plot in the end was like WTF. Overall this series is kinda a big WTF show less

4.5