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Y: The Last Man (Single Issues) #3
Y: The Last Man #3
Trapped inside an impenetrable bunker, Yorick Brown struggles to rescue his Congresswoman mother from a murderous posse. Meanwhile, Culper Ring operative Agent 355 risks her life to protect the first female President of the U.S., and the news that a lone male has survived begins to leak out...
23 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 2002
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Brian K. Vaughan
1,063 books14.2k followersBrian K. Vaughan is the writer and co-creator of comic-book series including SAGA, PAPER GIRLS, Y THE LAST MAN, RUNAWAYS, and most recently, BARRIER, a digital comic with artist Marcos Martin about immigration, available from their pay-what-you-want site www.PanelSyndicate.com
BKV's work has been recognized at the Eisner, Harvey, Hugo, Shuster, Eagle, and British Fantasy Awards. He sometimes writes for film and television in Los Angeles, where he lives with his family and their dogs Hamburger and Milkshake.
BKV's work has been recognized at the Eisner, Harvey, Hugo, Shuster, Eagle, and British Fantasy Awards. He sometimes writes for film and television in Los Angeles, where he lives with his family and their dogs Hamburger and Milkshake.
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December 4, 2020
Y The Last Man #3
"Unmanned, Part 3 of 5"
Comments: We get to see some overly motherly concern from Yorick's mom towards him. And it goes overboard. At the same time, we see what happened to women in the government and women married to men in the government, can summarily mess things up only a short time from when all the men died. They emerged to be power hungry and aggressive.
We get to see the way government is run mutated to something undemocratic and alien. Until of course, the arrival of the new President and Agent 355.
Pia Guerra's illustration is fantastic. You can still just look at the illustrations in order, and you would get almost the same story as what was being told in the word balloons. And towards, the beginning, splash page of the Interstate Highway 395 showed the just how the enormous gravity of the massive mess left behind by the sudden death of all the men on Earth... except Yorick. The country is in a world of doo-doo.
Synopsis Complete Spoilers: At Interstate Highway 395 in Virginia, Agent 355 stopped the car, and told the new Madame President that they'll have to walk, but will take another car once they are in the vicinity of Washington D.C. She explained that whatever killed the men two months ago happened during rush hour, and traffic is backlogged by miles upon miles of crashed vehicles upon each other in the highway.
Back in The White House, Yorick's mom ordered him away from the window and told him that they were being shot at by Republicans. She recognized them to be the wives of the deceased Congressmen. Outside, the armed women yelled out they will no longer tolerate the coup d'etat of their government. Yorick's mom explained that three-fourths of the females in Congress and Senate are Democrats. They decided not to give the women married to Republican legislators their husbands' seats and thought that the female Legislative Democrats were trying to eliminate the two-party system of the government. She ordered Yorick that they are leaving. They made their way downstairs underneath the East Wing and to a fallout shelter created during the Eisenhower era. Yorick admired the lock on the steel door and went inside with her mom. She walked out without him knowing and locked him inside. She couldn't risk Yorick doing something stupid out there.
On the other side of the bunker's steel time-locked doors, Congresswoman Brown is joined by Senator Cavanaugh.
Inside the bunker, Yorick tried to regurgitate the tension tool he swallowed.
Outside The White House, the Republican Wives are holding the secret service agent from the gate as hostage. Congresswoman Brown and Senator Cavanugh emerged outside. Secret Agent Diane with her service weapon drawn and pointed at the Republican Wives told them the situation. The two elected Legislative officials tried to talk with the Republican Wives, and it went back and forth for a while. Unfortunately, the Republican Wife holding the gun to the temple of the secret service agent being held hostage accidentally pulled the trigger and the gun went off, instantly killing the secret service agent that was held as a hostage. Secret Service agent Diane immediately went into action and shot the trigger-woman hitting her.
Inside the bunker, Yorick found out he was no MacGyver, and unable to escape. He did find a smoke detector, but no fire suppression equipment. He was thinking would the steel timelock door open up automatically if there was a fire, or would the people trapped inside the fire get burned and die. Only one way to find out, and he lit up his lighter.
Back outside the other Republican Wife yelled that it was an accident, and shot back and hit Secret Service agent Diane in the shoulder, and she went down. Congresswoman Brown made her way to Diane to see how bad she's hit. She'll live but pointed out what was heading their way as the headlights of a vehicle approached them closer and closer.
A speeding garbage truck crashed through the gates of The White House and when it stopped, the driver with a drawn weapon asked for the Republican Wives to drop their weapons. A few did, and the others did not while asking who she is. And Madame President Valentine emerged saying she's The President and for all the women to drop their weapons. The Republican Wives recognized her, and explained what happened, as did the Legislative officials who said they are just going by the rule of law as this is a Republic, just as the founding fathers intended. The Republican Wives cited all the men are dead and they need something new and that the men and their Constitution doesn't apply anymore.
"That's bullshit," and outside emerged the figure of Yorick Brown along with Ampersand perched on his shoulder. He doesn't agree about a document to be just tossed aside after working so well for a couple of hundred years. All eyes darted towards the young man and asking who he is. Shaking her head and hand on her face, Congresswoman Brown told everyone it's her son. He continued to chastise them, until the new President ordered him to stop chastising the women and to join her in her office inside The White House. Yorick pointed at the smoke behind him to have someone do something about the fire in the basement first.
The following day, in the Oval Office, The President told Yorick that she and Agent 355 commandeered the garbage truck from a supermodel. Congresswoman Brown told Agent 355 she couldn't believe The Culper Ring still existed after the American Revolution. Yorick told The President his plan of finding Dr. Mann and assisting her, and then going to Australia. The President agreed he'd go to Dr. Mann as she didn't think it would be safe for Yorick to be at the same place all the time as story of his existence would spread. But she did forbid him to leave the country, and that they would make arrangements for his Beth to be brought over to the USA to reunite with him. She also ordered Agent 355 to accompany him as a chaperone to make sure that Yorick stayed within their borders as they went to Dr. Mann's location. And she gave them a final order, not to f..k this up.
A few days later in Tel Aviv, Israel, the new Chief of the General Staff, Alter, was in the middle of strategizing their successful continued attack on Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt, when the phone rang, surprising them. It's a secure line from the USA. She received a message from a governmental safe house informing her that there is the last man alive, named Yorick Brown.
"Unmanned, Part 3 of 5"
Comments: We get to see some overly motherly concern from Yorick's mom towards him. And it goes overboard. At the same time, we see what happened to women in the government and women married to men in the government, can summarily mess things up only a short time from when all the men died. They emerged to be power hungry and aggressive.
We get to see the way government is run mutated to something undemocratic and alien. Until of course, the arrival of the new President and Agent 355.
Pia Guerra's illustration is fantastic. You can still just look at the illustrations in order, and you would get almost the same story as what was being told in the word balloons. And towards, the beginning, splash page of the Interstate Highway 395 showed the just how the enormous gravity of the massive mess left behind by the sudden death of all the men on Earth... except Yorick. The country is in a world of doo-doo.
Synopsis Complete Spoilers: At Interstate Highway 395 in Virginia, Agent 355 stopped the car, and told the new Madame President that they'll have to walk, but will take another car once they are in the vicinity of Washington D.C. She explained that whatever killed the men two months ago happened during rush hour, and traffic is backlogged by miles upon miles of crashed vehicles upon each other in the highway.
Back in The White House, Yorick's mom ordered him away from the window and told him that they were being shot at by Republicans. She recognized them to be the wives of the deceased Congressmen. Outside, the armed women yelled out they will no longer tolerate the coup d'etat of their government. Yorick's mom explained that three-fourths of the females in Congress and Senate are Democrats. They decided not to give the women married to Republican legislators their husbands' seats and thought that the female Legislative Democrats were trying to eliminate the two-party system of the government. She ordered Yorick that they are leaving. They made their way downstairs underneath the East Wing and to a fallout shelter created during the Eisenhower era. Yorick admired the lock on the steel door and went inside with her mom. She walked out without him knowing and locked him inside. She couldn't risk Yorick doing something stupid out there.
On the other side of the bunker's steel time-locked doors, Congresswoman Brown is joined by Senator Cavanaugh.
Inside the bunker, Yorick tried to regurgitate the tension tool he swallowed.
Outside The White House, the Republican Wives are holding the secret service agent from the gate as hostage. Congresswoman Brown and Senator Cavanugh emerged outside. Secret Agent Diane with her service weapon drawn and pointed at the Republican Wives told them the situation. The two elected Legislative officials tried to talk with the Republican Wives, and it went back and forth for a while. Unfortunately, the Republican Wife holding the gun to the temple of the secret service agent being held hostage accidentally pulled the trigger and the gun went off, instantly killing the secret service agent that was held as a hostage. Secret Service agent Diane immediately went into action and shot the trigger-woman hitting her.
Inside the bunker, Yorick found out he was no MacGyver, and unable to escape. He did find a smoke detector, but no fire suppression equipment. He was thinking would the steel timelock door open up automatically if there was a fire, or would the people trapped inside the fire get burned and die. Only one way to find out, and he lit up his lighter.
Back outside the other Republican Wife yelled that it was an accident, and shot back and hit Secret Service agent Diane in the shoulder, and she went down. Congresswoman Brown made her way to Diane to see how bad she's hit. She'll live but pointed out what was heading their way as the headlights of a vehicle approached them closer and closer.
A speeding garbage truck crashed through the gates of The White House and when it stopped, the driver with a drawn weapon asked for the Republican Wives to drop their weapons. A few did, and the others did not while asking who she is. And Madame President Valentine emerged saying she's The President and for all the women to drop their weapons. The Republican Wives recognized her, and explained what happened, as did the Legislative officials who said they are just going by the rule of law as this is a Republic, just as the founding fathers intended. The Republican Wives cited all the men are dead and they need something new and that the men and their Constitution doesn't apply anymore.
"That's bullshit," and outside emerged the figure of Yorick Brown along with Ampersand perched on his shoulder. He doesn't agree about a document to be just tossed aside after working so well for a couple of hundred years. All eyes darted towards the young man and asking who he is. Shaking her head and hand on her face, Congresswoman Brown told everyone it's her son. He continued to chastise them, until the new President ordered him to stop chastising the women and to join her in her office inside The White House. Yorick pointed at the smoke behind him to have someone do something about the fire in the basement first.
The following day, in the Oval Office, The President told Yorick that she and Agent 355 commandeered the garbage truck from a supermodel. Congresswoman Brown told Agent 355 she couldn't believe The Culper Ring still existed after the American Revolution. Yorick told The President his plan of finding Dr. Mann and assisting her, and then going to Australia. The President agreed he'd go to Dr. Mann as she didn't think it would be safe for Yorick to be at the same place all the time as story of his existence would spread. But she did forbid him to leave the country, and that they would make arrangements for his Beth to be brought over to the USA to reunite with him. She also ordered Agent 355 to accompany him as a chaperone to make sure that Yorick stayed within their borders as they went to Dr. Mann's location. And she gave them a final order, not to f..k this up.
A few days later in Tel Aviv, Israel, the new Chief of the General Staff, Alter, was in the middle of strategizing their successful continued attack on Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt, when the phone rang, surprising them. It's a secure line from the USA. She received a message from a governmental safe house informing her that there is the last man alive, named Yorick Brown.
October 25, 2013
Agent 355 is on the road with the new President. In Washington, the wives of the dead Republican Congressmen are laying siege to the White House to forcibly take their husbands seats.
The Israelis find out about Yorrick's existence.
Fantastical and yet all too plausible.
The Israelis find out about Yorrick's existence.
Fantastical and yet all too plausible.
November 23, 2017
CW// IDF and war. Just a lot of eye rolling whilst reading.
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September 10, 2016This story just keeps getting better.
November 5, 2020
I don't know why exactly, but when art dives so blatantly into political humor it can really go one of two ways: topical or embarrassingly out of touch.
BKV is probably the best at including political thoughts in his work, (likely because I get the impression our world views aren't that far apart). That said Y the Last Man definitely reads like a book that came out in 2001, whereas some other contemporary comics of the day (like Transmetropolitan) feel like they could have been released as early as last week.
That's the double edge sword of BKV. He's always been on the zeitgeist of culture surrounding his works. It means he's always growing as a writer, but it also means occasionally wincing at some weird interpretations of feminism that could be seen as outdated by today's standards. They're never deal breakers though. It's usually just little things that feel a bit off. Like the sneer at Hilary Clinton in this issue... i get the impression it would have been written just a smidge different post 2016.
But I digress. I'm pretty lukewarm on Y the Last Man. It's fine. 😌 fine and not much else. My jaw did drop a few times in this issue so there's that. In spite of its genuine efforts and legitimate quality, I never end up thinking very highly of it. I don't know what it's doing wrong. I fear it might be the art. Pia Guerra is great. I just find the colors inconsistent. Sometimes they're layered and effective. Most times they're just flat and it kinda brings the experience down. Small complaints but they add up to the disjointed experience.
BKV is probably the best at including political thoughts in his work, (likely because I get the impression our world views aren't that far apart). That said Y the Last Man definitely reads like a book that came out in 2001, whereas some other contemporary comics of the day (like Transmetropolitan) feel like they could have been released as early as last week.
That's the double edge sword of BKV. He's always been on the zeitgeist of culture surrounding his works. It means he's always growing as a writer, but it also means occasionally wincing at some weird interpretations of feminism that could be seen as outdated by today's standards. They're never deal breakers though. It's usually just little things that feel a bit off. Like the sneer at Hilary Clinton in this issue... i get the impression it would have been written just a smidge different post 2016.
But I digress. I'm pretty lukewarm on Y the Last Man. It's fine. 😌 fine and not much else. My jaw did drop a few times in this issue so there's that. In spite of its genuine efforts and legitimate quality, I never end up thinking very highly of it. I don't know what it's doing wrong. I fear it might be the art. Pia Guerra is great. I just find the colors inconsistent. Sometimes they're layered and effective. Most times they're just flat and it kinda brings the experience down. Small complaints but they add up to the disjointed experience.
November 27, 2017
"Bur WHO THE HELL is shooting at us mom, TERRORIST?"
"worse"
"Republicans"
Guild of overreacting government widows who practically just starting to use gun in their lives is now trying to take over the White House and also demanding to replace the U.S constitution. BECAUSE FOR SOME FUCKING REASON this bitches thinks laws are more important than the killing another of their kind even though they know that their gonna extinct 50 yrs from now(if this keeps up its gonna be less than 30)
"worse"
"Republicans"
Guild of overreacting government widows who practically just starting to use gun in their lives is now trying to take over the White House and also demanding to replace the U.S constitution. BECAUSE FOR SOME FUCKING REASON this bitches thinks laws are more important than the killing another of their kind even though they know that their gonna extinct 50 yrs from now(if this keeps up its gonna be less than 30)
January 2, 2022
I stopped reading this series after this issue. The overall premise is interesting, fun and the start was very promising and I liked some of the world building and how it drew smart connections to our current society. But it turns more and more into a rather anticlimactic road trip with more or less interesting vignettes.
May 6, 2023
I really enjoyed the concept of what would happen if all these government seats just became vacant. We get some tension and some new characters. Yorick is given a mission to rendezvous with a doctor and try to learn about what is going on.
December 15, 2019
Well, this one is a bit slower and sporadic than the previous 2. It jumps around a lot. I'm going to continue, but this isn't the strongest volume.
August 24, 2020
one line brought the rating down
still bothering me
still bothering me
April 16, 2023
Everyone cheer for agent 355
July 23, 2023
It starts picking up here, the power struggle at the beginning is fun to watch play out. Yorick escaping the bunker is also a pretty cool moment :)
January 21, 2024
Does this comic pass the bechdel test?
I like the pacing of this comic. Visually moves with action and the right amount of exposition.
I like the pacing of this comic. Visually moves with action and the right amount of exposition.
June 8, 2016
Very filler. Pretty boring... Come on - pick up!
October 6, 2016
Sigo leyendo no porque esté particularmente genial, sino porque me da mucha curiosidad ver que pasa.
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