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calebmatthews's review against another edition
5.0
Wow! What a way to wrap it up.
I didn’t predict the ending at all. That was nuts. I literally had to flip back and reread to believe what happened about 3/4 of the way through. I didn’t love the Alter storyline, but it was unique.
POSSIBLE SPOILER: Favorite part of possibly the whole series is when Yorick talks about having his heart “broken in”, as opposed to broken. It’s clever and beautiful language and fit the scene well.
I didn’t predict the ending at all. That was nuts. I literally had to flip back and reread to believe what happened about 3/4 of the way through. I didn’t love the Alter storyline, but it was unique.
POSSIBLE SPOILER: Favorite part of possibly the whole series is when Yorick talks about having his heart “broken in”, as opposed to broken. It’s clever and beautiful language and fit the scene well.
rembrandt1881's review against another edition
5.0
I listened to a lot of podcasts from Nerdist.com and plenty of thimes I heard writers referring to this book series so I decided to go check it out. The story was pretty good and it wasn't necessarily the greatest but much like Star Wars it has great characters and connections. Brian Vaughn infuses the series with great humor throughout with the main character and while the ending was slightly surprising and possibly a bit of a let down it did fit. Yorick Brown's journey is a good one after all of the men on the planet other than himself and his pet monkey Ampersand.
Now the main mystery is just a vehicle to tell the journey of Yorick as he tries to find his girlfriend Beth, whom he was in the midst of proposing to when the world went to hell. There is definitely tragedy within the story but they are well thought out and not done just to surprise and give Vaughn a reason to add new characters who have the same traits. Rather when they are gone, they go for a reason and they aren't replaced. In terms of style, I love the way this is written with humor and that the different parts of the story are not directly in line. Time skips months at a time which allows the pace to keep moving and to have these moments that are referred to that only the characters know about which makes them real. We don't know everything that has happened at all times and it's just like real life. This is one of the things that gave me the most joy in reading this.
If you haven't read any graphic novels or comic series this is indeed an excellent way to get into the genre.
Now the main mystery is just a vehicle to tell the journey of Yorick as he tries to find his girlfriend Beth, whom he was in the midst of proposing to when the world went to hell. There is definitely tragedy within the story but they are well thought out and not done just to surprise and give Vaughn a reason to add new characters who have the same traits. Rather when they are gone, they go for a reason and they aren't replaced. In terms of style, I love the way this is written with humor and that the different parts of the story are not directly in line. Time skips months at a time which allows the pace to keep moving and to have these moments that are referred to that only the characters know about which makes them real. We don't know everything that has happened at all times and it's just like real life. This is one of the things that gave me the most joy in reading this.
If you haven't read any graphic novels or comic series this is indeed an excellent way to get into the genre.
pictusfish's review against another edition
2.0
Great series, stupid ending. Book 9 and 10 were increasingly disappointing, but I still recommend the series as a whole.
katieinca's review against another edition
4.0
I just finished all 10 of these, but I'm not going to add them individually. They're pretty fricking great. I recommend them to anyone who likes (even if they don't necessarily love) speculative fiction, post-apocalyptic stuff that isn't completely depressing, interesting ways to hypothesize about sex and gender, and/or monkeys.
brendalovesbooks's review against another edition
4.0
I give this four stars because it ultimately made me feel something, even if that feeling was being depressed.
ac_church's review against another edition
Most endings of epic, plot-heavy narratives usually collapse on their fat asses. Tying loose ends of plotlines that were developing throught the whole story and creating sensible relationships between characters must be really painful for a writer. The way out, I think, is to fall on your ass gracefully, make the collapse of the plot a beautiful thing. Not to try and provide an answer to every question, but just throw it all away, An ending to a big narrative must a be a carnival, a mad entwining of plot-lines, characters and images that were around for the whole thing.That's why I liked "Lost" ending. That's why I like Volume 10 more than any other in the series: because it's just a feast, it's insane, irrational, it has a heartbreaking emotional twist and a perfect final frame. It's so much better than a mere closure of a plot, it's an accumulation of all the inner tides of the narrative gone wrong - or very, very right.
adastrame's review against another edition
2.0
(This is a review of the entire series!)
I was very excited about this graphic novel - a dystopian world in which all men but one mysteriously die? But I was hugely disappointed, as this isn't the feminist utopia I was looking for. It's anything but, and the fact that this title was written by a man should have warned me. It's very obviously a title written by men for men, as it's pretty much every man's fantasy to have a world of women at his disposal, isn't it?
Well, the comic cleverly tries to avoid such implications by making Yorick, the last man, a very sensitive, fairly unmasculine, English major. He doesn't take advantage of his situation at all, rather, he is on a 5-year quest around the world to find his girlfriend, who was in Australia when the men a died (while Yorick was in the US).
And that's where the comic started bothering me - we're presented with a post apocalyptic world in which society has broken down. No more phones, no more electricity, no more planes. I find it utterly unrealistic that a world full of women would be unable to maintain the basic functionalities of society. Of course there might be an adjustment phase, but after that, women would be perfectly capable of doing anything men can do. It just takes some organizational skills, which I daresay women are much better at than men.
The comic also displays it's dystopia full of gangs and criminality. Again, I find this very unrealistic. I don't think women would go quite as far as the ridiculous Daughters of the Amazon are going. The comic is full of similar fanatics, like the Israeli soldiers who want to claim the last man for the future of their country. Knowing what I know about Israel, I find this pretty unlikely.
The whole conclusion to why the wipeout happened was not very satisfying either, it was rather ridiculous. There would have been much better scenarios as to why all males suddenly died.
Allover, this title was a huge disappointment for me. Where is the feminist utopia in which women lead a better world?
I was very excited about this graphic novel - a dystopian world in which all men but one mysteriously die? But I was hugely disappointed, as this isn't the feminist utopia I was looking for. It's anything but, and the fact that this title was written by a man should have warned me. It's very obviously a title written by men for men, as it's pretty much every man's fantasy to have a world of women at his disposal, isn't it?
Well, the comic cleverly tries to avoid such implications by making Yorick, the last man, a very sensitive, fairly unmasculine, English major. He doesn't take advantage of his situation at all, rather, he is on a 5-year quest around the world to find his girlfriend, who was in Australia when the men a died (while Yorick was in the US).
And that's where the comic started bothering me - we're presented with a post apocalyptic world in which society has broken down. No more phones, no more electricity, no more planes. I find it utterly unrealistic that a world full of women would be unable to maintain the basic functionalities of society. Of course there might be an adjustment phase, but after that, women would be perfectly capable of doing anything men can do. It just takes some organizational skills, which I daresay women are much better at than men.
The comic also displays it's dystopia full of gangs and criminality. Again, I find this very unrealistic. I don't think women would go quite as far as the ridiculous Daughters of the Amazon are going. The comic is full of similar fanatics, like the Israeli soldiers who want to claim the last man for the future of their country. Knowing what I know about Israel, I find this pretty unlikely.
The whole conclusion to why the wipeout happened was not very satisfying either, it was rather ridiculous. There would have been much better scenarios as to why all males suddenly died.
Allover, this title was a huge disappointment for me. Where is the feminist utopia in which women lead a better world?
aquint's review against another edition
1.0
I absolutely do not understand how this series won awards. Rubbish.
tawfek's review against another edition
5.0
this is the most beautiful epilogue to a comic series i have ever read
its elegant and mind-blowing and satisfying
i was very sad to see 355 die since all the signs said that she and Yorick will be together in the end
i was heartbroken with yorick to know that beth the first was going to break up with him before the plague
i was very excited to see the old yorick in his straight jacket and was wondering all the time why the hell hasn't he escaped from it long ago but as the saying goes better late then never
thanks for an amazing piece of art.
its elegant and mind-blowing and satisfying
i was very sad to see 355 die since all the signs said that she and Yorick will be together in the end
i was heartbroken with yorick to know that beth the first was going to break up with him before the plague
i was very excited to see the old yorick in his straight jacket and was wondering all the time why the hell hasn't he escaped from it long ago but as the saying goes better late then never
thanks for an amazing piece of art.
lsparrow's review against another edition
4.0
sad to be done this series although I left the incomplete ends that trailed off.