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mcdannyb's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
mcdannyb's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
estelessa's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
zorpblorp's review
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
andrew_w's review against another edition
5.0
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Wow idk what I was expecting but that ending hurt. Very bittersweet.apageinthestacks's review against another edition
5.0
What a ride.
This is one of those comics I can't believe I haven't read until now, but with so many people's high praise and recommendation, I decided to dive right in with the first Absolute edition, thanks to an incredibly good price (~30% off on B&N.com, plus a 40% coupon they sent out).
And I definitely wasn't disappointed. I've loved Vaughan's work from Saga, Paper Girls, Private Eye, and We Stand on Guard, but I hadn't yet read his most famous work (at least until Saga came around). His writing is amazing as usual, and paired with Pia Guerra this is an incredibly beautiful-looking book. Guerra is a great artist, and her style fits perfectly with the words. Not to mention, of course, how well the Absolute format complements it.
Highly recommended--September 21st can't come soon enough for volume 2.
This is one of those comics I can't believe I haven't read until now, but with so many people's high praise and recommendation, I decided to dive right in with the first Absolute edition, thanks to an incredibly good price (~30% off on B&N.com, plus a 40% coupon they sent out).
And I definitely wasn't disappointed. I've loved Vaughan's work from Saga, Paper Girls, Private Eye, and We Stand on Guard, but I hadn't yet read his most famous work (at least until Saga came around). His writing is amazing as usual, and paired with Pia Guerra this is an incredibly beautiful-looking book. Guerra is a great artist, and her style fits perfectly with the words. Not to mention, of course, how well the Absolute format complements it.
Highly recommended--September 21st can't come soon enough for volume 2.
articulatemadness's review against another edition
1.0
Here's the thing about this era of Vertigo...Y The Last Man started off Great but then as it hits its stride its systemically brought to its knees and turns out a shit comic with a rushed crappy ending. It's not just this, it's 100 Bullets, DMZ, Stumptown, American Virgin, Air, Transmetropolitan - this is a pattern with the imprint I think on purpose.
Having said that the conclusion of this saga is absolutely TERRIBLE. All it is is a poor excuse for a love triangle romance hiding between a very weak and inconceivable geopolitical plotline with a dash of science fiction cloning to make it "deep". All main and side plots are rushed. Yorick doesn't get an ending that makes sense. The timeline goes by quick, and you don't even know it until the bitter end, which is a problem tracking how much time is passing between the cloning doctor slash discount assassin making progress. The biggest letdown is the ending. Great way to destroy what could have been a potentially great ending Vertigo.
I was mad reading the issues as we boiled over to the ending and I'm STILL MAD at the hatchet job Vertigo did on this comic. It should be felonious to destroy your popular titles because you're pissed people are buying it instead of The New 52. Do yourself a favor and skip this and the television show. Think better of your time and money.
Having said that the conclusion of this saga is absolutely TERRIBLE. All it is is a poor excuse for a love triangle romance hiding between a very weak and inconceivable geopolitical plotline with a dash of science fiction cloning to make it "deep". All main and side plots are rushed. Yorick doesn't get an ending that makes sense. The timeline goes by quick, and you don't even know it until the bitter end, which is a problem tracking how much time is passing between the cloning doctor slash discount assassin making progress. The biggest letdown is the ending. Great way to destroy what could have been a potentially great ending Vertigo.
I was mad reading the issues as we boiled over to the ending and I'm STILL MAD at the hatchet job Vertigo did on this comic. It should be felonious to destroy your popular titles because you're pissed people are buying it instead of The New 52. Do yourself a favor and skip this and the television show. Think better of your time and money.
articulatemadness's review against another edition
5.0
Here's the thing about this era of Vertigo...Y The Last Man started off Great but then as it hits its stride its systemically brought to its knees and turns out a shit comic with a rushed crappy ending. It's not just this, it's 100 Bullets, DMZ, Stumptown, American Virgin, Air, Transmetropolitan - this is a pattern with the imprint I think on purpose.
The story is actually quite entertaining at the surface. Yorick and Ampersand, his pet monkey, are navigating through a post apocalyptic planet where anyone with a Y chromosome but him has dropped dead. This is a loser guy that's a disappointment to his family who finally has purpose as "The Last Man", a title he doesn't even want since he's sworn off relations with women and is just riding solo with his monkey. He's a disappointment to his mother who is a big time US Senator, and his sister who eventually gets caught up in the panic of the feminism movement when they realize the population is going into extinction.
I read these in individual issues as they came out, but this volume you get to discover Yorick's quest to travel the world and find out why he of all men survived, more about the Culper Ring and his mother's involvement including assigning black Agent 355 to him (who initially hates his guts but grows fond of him) as they travel coast to coast trying to get to a cloning lab of a scientist his mother wants him to see to figure out if they can change humanity.
I'll give this issue five stars truly for starting off strong and leaving the audience engaged, but be forewarned, it goes downhill from here.
The story is actually quite entertaining at the surface. Yorick and Ampersand, his pet monkey, are navigating through a post apocalyptic planet where anyone with a Y chromosome but him has dropped dead. This is a loser guy that's a disappointment to his family who finally has purpose as "The Last Man", a title he doesn't even want since he's sworn off relations with women and is just riding solo with his monkey. He's a disappointment to his mother who is a big time US Senator, and his sister who eventually gets caught up in the panic of the feminism movement when they realize the population is going into extinction.
I read these in individual issues as they came out, but this volume you get to discover Yorick's quest to travel the world and find out why he of all men survived, more about the Culper Ring and his mother's involvement including assigning black Agent 355 to him (who initially hates his guts but grows fond of him) as they travel coast to coast trying to get to a cloning lab of a scientist his mother wants him to see to figure out if they can change humanity.
I'll give this issue five stars truly for starting off strong and leaving the audience engaged, but be forewarned, it goes downhill from here.
articulatemadness's review
3.0
Here's the thing about this era of Vertigo...Y The Last Man started off Great but then as it hits its stride its systemically brought to its knees and turns out a shit comic with a rushed crappy ending. It's not just this, it's 100 Bullets, DMZ, Stumptown, American Virgin, Air, Transmetropolitan - this is a pattern with the imprint I think on purpose.
We continue this story with more inconsistent continuity issues than One Life to Life can offer. We're almost two years into the future and Yorick and Agent 355 are looking for Ampersand, the cloning doctor is still trying to get to her other lab in California after her boston lab got burned up, women are still running around free, cutting off one of their tits to be free from the patriarchial collapsed society, his sister has become one of the Amazonians, his mother is still trying to be someone of importance with the government, the road trip is still going on with pitfalls and surprises, we get two men drop down from the space station with a chick and of course that doesn't go well, and more questions are presented than answers, leading to a rut in the story - see my previous paragraph about Vertigo's habit of trashing a good series.
I read these in individual issues as they came out, but this volume is more fluff and drivel filled with characters we don't care about and we hope not to see again. Like Beth, the cloning doctor, and Yorick's mother. The only slightly tolerable thing is Agent 355, but her bromancing with Yorick gets tired. He's also an asshole for the duration, and you're pretty much tired of him by the time the search for the monkey is in full bloom.
I'll give this issue three stars just for Agent 355.
We continue this story with more inconsistent continuity issues than One Life to Life can offer. We're almost two years into the future and Yorick and Agent 355 are looking for Ampersand, the cloning doctor is still trying to get to her other lab in California after her boston lab got burned up, women are still running around free, cutting off one of their tits to be free from the patriarchial collapsed society, his sister has become one of the Amazonians, his mother is still trying to be someone of importance with the government, the road trip is still going on with pitfalls and surprises, we get two men drop down from the space station with a chick and of course that doesn't go well, and more questions are presented than answers, leading to a rut in the story - see my previous paragraph about Vertigo's habit of trashing a good series.
I read these in individual issues as they came out, but this volume is more fluff and drivel filled with characters we don't care about and we hope not to see again. Like Beth, the cloning doctor, and Yorick's mother. The only slightly tolerable thing is Agent 355, but her bromancing with Yorick gets tired. He's also an asshole for the duration, and you're pretty much tired of him by the time the search for the monkey is in full bloom.
I'll give this issue three stars just for Agent 355.