Y The Last Man: Unmanned Vol.1 by Brian Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Jose Marazan, Jr.

Y: The Last Man: Unmanned Vol.1 by Brian Vaughan, Pia Guerra and Jose Marazan, Jr is a rather inter­est­ing series. I picked up it on chance. The premise is thus: Yorick Brown is an ama­teur escape artist and son of a United States con­gress­woman. His girl­friend is cur­rently trav­el­ing in Aus­tralia when the world is sud­denly hit with a vir­u­lent plague that kills every man on the planet. Except Yorick Brown and his pet mon­key. The genetic make-up of the only male alive on the planet earth becomes one of curios­ity and amaze­ment. What makes Yorick Brown so dif­fer­ent from the other males on the planet?

The story is enter­tain­ing and flows smoothly. Yorick spends much of the story, run­ning for his life from the Ama­zons who learn of his exis­tence. The latter-day Ama­zons are a tribe of women who are a threat to any sur­viv­ing males left on the planet. There is also some polit­i­cal humor as well. Since the gov­ern­ment is now all female, the wives of the Repub­li­can hus­bands demand to have their husband’s seats and it’s all out gun fight for con­trol. Those scenes were quite funny from a polit­i­cal point of view.

It’s an adven­ture story along with a mys­tery to find out why Yorick is immune to the plague and what he can do to re-populate the world. Talk about a huge respon­si­bil­ity! All Yorick wants to do is track down his girl­friend in Aus­tralia but that’s kinda hard to do with the roads blocked by the men who were dri­ving when the plaque hit. There are cur­rently 8 vol­umes in this series. I’ve read three thus far before mov­ing on to some­thing else. I plan to con­tinue read­ing the rest. The sto­ries move quickly and again, it’s enter­tain­ing stuff. This is a heads up to those who read graphic nov­els. The first three in the series were about B reads for me. Look for­ward to catch­ing up with these char­ac­ters later.

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