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ewans's review against another edition
5.0
Not the ending I was expecting but beautifully concluded anyway. Very enjoyable series! All story arcs either 4 or 5 stars!
craftingcnage's review against another edition
5.0
A really fitting end to a series that dealt with gender, war, racism, essentialism & the human condition. I won't lie, I cried at the end.
lauren708's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.25
That ending was... so sad. After all of it, I hated the Alter storyline. I couldn't believe it. I like that after Yorick's "last man" story ends, we get more follow through into the future. What a wild ride.
trin's review against another edition
2.0
Probably deserves a higher rating, but, well—it made me really unhappy. Sigh.
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.