![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. In the tradition of much good sci-fi writing, his fantastic plague backdrop is a very clever way of isolating and expanding on simple human themes of love, loneliness, fear and, of course, gender relations.Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Most important, Vaughn makes readers care for his characters. Guerra's art is unremarkable but competently conveys all kinds of action. On the run from Amazon extremists who would be happy to see him dead, his friends leave him in the care of Agent 711. Vaughn is an excellent episodic writer, able to sustain a suspenseful arc of plot, themes and realistic characters from one moment to the next. Vaughan illustrated by Pia Guerra Issues 18-23 Part 4 of the Y: The Last Manseries After a devastating plague, Yorick Brown is the last man left alive in a world of women. Vaughn spends three chapters on Yorick's past and present psychosexual traumas, as he encounters a very eccentric therapist the next three chapters follow Dr. This volume focuses on the character development of Yorick and geneticist Dr. He's on the run with a government agent and a geneticist as they hope to figure out what caused the plague and how Yorick survived. Poor Yorick, however, has to conceal his identity from man-hating Amazons, renegade separatists and all sorts of other female factions who want to use him for one thing or another. A mysterious plague has wiped out every man around the globe, except for one: a sardonic 20-something romantic named Yorick. ![]() Vaughan and Guerra have crafted a frequently funny, sometimes compelling, postapocalyptic American road story with a twist. ![]()
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