August 3, 2008

  • Imagine a reality where all the mammals in the world with a Y chromosome just simultaneously died from some mysterious reason. What you got left is a world filled with women, which obviously has great social, economic, and political ramifications. Now somehow, one man and his monkey are spared from this "gendercide" and have essentially become the last males in this world of X chromosomes. "Y the Last Man" by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra, is a graphic novel series that follows Yorick Brown, the headstrong young man with snappy humorous one-liners, amateur escape artist, and son of a US congressman, who has to deal with the fact that he is the only man alive. In a world where there are only women around, what does he want to do? He decides that he wants to travel half way around the world in search of his girlfriend. Accompanied by his monkey Ampersand, and his body guard secret agent that's simply named "355," they go on a quest that's clearly become more complicated than it should be.

    "Y the Last Man" is one of the best graphic novels out there and an instant classic that'll last a long time. The story is very thought provoking, and it has many different memorable characters that shows up in the book. It's also fascinating to get a taste of what it would be like to see how the women in the world are going to act with all the men gone. There's also the case of how women can't procreate without men, so they essentially are already an extinct species waiting to eventually die out. Is anarchy eventually going to happen, or should they try and run things like normal? What caused all the males to die in the first place, and was it a terrorist attack, an act of God, or some plague? Why was Yorick Brown and his monkey spared to live? What do you think all these women will do, when they find out that there's one single man out there still living? To say the least, this story is quite engaging, provocative, dramatic, humorous, adventurous, and not to be missed.

    "Y the Last Man" is available as a 60 issues series or a 10 volume trade paperback.

    Have a look at how it begins by downloading this 9.2MB pdf file of the first issue
    http://www.dccomics.com/media/excerpts/1736_1.pdf

    Also worth mentioning, "Y the Last Man" is currently being planned to be a possible movie trilogy, starring Shia LaBeouf and D. J. Caruso as director.