Y: The Last Man: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan; graphic novel, science fiction, dystopia; 128 pagesThis is another comic series I've been meaning to pick up for a while. Fortunately, the intrepid shelvers located the missing volumes, so I can finally get started! (P.S.: You all are my heroes)
The premise of this story is pretty simple: one day, all the men in the world die. The death is sudden and unexplained, and it's not just people that are affected: any male, be it beast, bird, or bug, dies. But Yorick Brown, and his pet monkey Ampersand, are unaffected. No one knows why, least of all Yorick. What follows is Yorick trying to survive in a world gone mad, and trying to track down his fiancee, who was on the other side of the world at the time of the attack (or whatever). In this volume, he gets recruited by what's left of the U.S. government to help figure out why he's immune, but he also has to avoid contact with the Amazons, a group of militant feminists who see the extinction of men as a blessing (and who won't think twice about finishing the job if they find Yorick).
I loved this first collection. It's a big change from Lucifer, which threw a lot of Deep Thoughts at the reader. Y asks a lot of "what-if" questions, but keeps moving quickly, which made it a fast read. Can't wait to start volume 2.
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