Out of the blue, every male organism on Earth dies instantly, plant, animal, human. Well, all but Yorick and his pet monkey, Ampersand. Yorick sets out to find his girlfriend, Beth, but the world isn't what it used to be without half the population, and society quickly devolves into chaos. With inter-group warfare, starving women and escaped criminals, Yorick, accompanied by a secret service agent and a cloning doctor, must find his girlfriend and try to provide a solution for humanity's dying generation.
I've raved about Brian K. Vaughan's more recent work, Saga, a lot, and so have been slowly working my way through his back catalogue. Y: The Last Man, interestingly, treads a lot of the same themes of Saga. Warfare, star-crossed lovers, created families and real ones torn a part and put back together wrong are all explored in a compelling fashion. As a writer, his handle on dialogue and slow reveals is almost unparalleled, and the illustrations are staged so beautifully and in such detail. It's a great read, but not quite as great as Saga.
4 out of 5 magician monkeys.
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