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Y: The Last Man, truly starts out with a bang. It's so interesting to discover what would life be like if all the men left the planet, and it feels accurate in Vaughan's story. Yorick's tale feels very realistic, and it will go down as one of the greatest sci-fi stories of our time.Immediately after reading this I want more. This book hits hard and hooks you really fast. Usually someone extremely dislikes a comic that another will love and adore. I read the volume very rapidly, and put reading before breathing. It's bang in fact is more like a nuclear bomb. The best sci-fi fantasy stories are ones that feel realistic within the supernatural.
As a concept it reminds me of Kirkman's Walking Dead series. It's nearly post-apocalyptic, because half of the population kicks the bucket. When I looked at the overall average review of the book, I don't believe anyone gave it less than four stars. However, with Y: The Last Man, I think that everyone just couldn't resist falling in love with it.
Tight plotting, sound characters, and smooth dialogue. This could have been a novel instead of a graphic novel series, it flows so well. The beginning is very promising, touching schizophrenically on 6 different storylines, but by the end of the first trade they converge, and not in contrived way.There's many political themes in the book, and the ramifications of the deaths of all men on the Republican and Democratic Parties and the Israeli Defense Forces is dealt with sophisticated enough to elicit appreciation from someone like me who is into topical subjects like that.There are several lines that will make you laugh out loud, like the crack about the wives of Republican congressmen (and I'm a Republican, so what does that tell you). After reading through volume 1 in one sitting, I'm buying the rest of the series.
This book benefits from two things in principle: (1) a great, inventive story with memorable characters, (2) great writing. Brian takes the principle feature of his new world, the presence of women without men, and exploits its every possible feature. The end result is an entertaining, interesting and thought-provoking work.
It just seems weird in a comic. Couple that with the fact that it will cost over 100 dollars to see the story to the end, and I think I'm done.
A few twists, mostly predictable. The story is okay so far.
After coming away from the likes of Steve Epting (Cap America), Bryan Hitch (The Ultimates) and other Marvel artists, this work, while servicable, just seems rather simplistic. It's the art that stops me from going any farther in this 10().
volume graphic novel. Check your local library would be my advice.And the F-bomb is dropped way too often.
I guess I'm used to the more traditional sh#@.Your mileage may vary.
If I want to read a book, I read a book. First of all, I love vertigo comics.This book is too wordy. I read comics because they are comics. The art is good, story is good, but there are much better COMICS out there to read. Buy this if you want to read a lot of text but don't want to read a book.Before you start to bash me, I'm currently reading The walking dead, Hellblazer, The sword, Powers, The boys, etc, etc.
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