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Y: The Last Man Book One Deluxe Edition
by Brian K. Vaughan
from Vertigo

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Alas...
  I was a little late to the party that was Brian K. Vaughan's Y: The Last Man; managing to just start really getting into the series shortly before it came to an end. For the uninformed, Y: The Last Man tells the story of Yorick Brown; a college student who, along with his pet monkey Ampersand, become the last male mammals on the planet after an unexplained virus kills every lifeform with a Y-chromosome. How did it happen and how are Yorick and Ampersand still alive and kicking? That's part of what made Y:... more info

• I hold these books to be sacred.
  
  This is the most amazing story that I have ever encountered in any medium.
  I picked up on the series in 2004, and followed it, month by month to its conclusion in 2008. I have such a personal attachment to this story, and Yorrick, and the post-apocalyptic world herein, that much of what I do now and would like to do in the future has been inspired by this. It made me realize what an incredible medium comic books are and the limitless potential they have for story telling. "Y" introduced me to... more info

• Poor Yorick! I knew him...
  Like seeing an old friend again. It's an awesome marketing strategy by DC to put out a deluxe version of the beginning of Y just after the series finished. Crank up the nostalgia factor and run with it.
  Now, on the merits, it's interesting to go back to the beginning and see where Vaughan was going with it. He's already starting to layer in the plots and hints that carry throughout the entire series. Yorick's confused and easily-sidetracked quest for Beth; the beginnings of the fraught relationship... more info

• No Greater Wrath
  Plague? Black Magic? Terrorism? Act of God? Could / would something simultaneously kill every mammal possessing a Y chromosome? Even unborn mammals in the womb? Well, according to Y: The Last Man, on July 17, 2002, that's exactly what happened...with the exception of one male human being and one male Capuchin monkey.
  Y: The Last Man chronicles the life of Yorick Brown and his pet monkey Ampersand as they are thrust into a female-only society. And society is in chaos. The realization that the planet is... more info

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