Synopsis: |
Y: THE LAST MAN, winner of three Eisner Awards and one of the mostcritically acclaimed, best-selling comic book series of the last decade, is thatrare example of a page-turner that is at once humorous, socially relevant andendlessly surprising. Written by Brian K. Vaughan (LOST, PRIDE OF BAGHDAD, EXMACHINA) and with art by Pia Guerra, this is the saga of Yorick Brown--the onlyhuman survivor of a planet-wide plague that instantly kills every mammalpossessing a Y chromosome. Accompanied by a mysterious government agent, abrilliant young geneticist and his pet monkey, Ampersand, Yorick travels theworld in search of his lost love and the answer to why he's the last man onEarth. In these stories, a Russian Soyuz capsule is coming down from theInternational Space Station carrying three passengers: one woman and two men.Could this be the end of Yorick's tenure as last living male? And then, as theLast Man on Earth and his companions continue to head west, the story takes adetour into the psychological. In the care of a fellow Culper Ring member,Yorick Brown is forced to confront his tremendous feelings of survivor guiltthat lead him to constantly put his life in danger. Collects Y: THE LAST MAN#21-40. |