Y I wish my name was Yorick

Prologue:

Reading a comic like Y The Last Man by Brian K Vaughn is like watching your favorite tv show. The characters just suck you into their lives and you almost feel like you are there, feeling the pain as a crazy Amazon cuts her own breast off, or the excitement of a girl on girl fist fight on the roof of a train, and even the sadness of a monkey's nightmare of loss and abandonment after being forcefully removed from his best friend's arms.

This is no ordinary comic book. It is an adventure, a wild ride, through the manless world of Yorick Brown. It is imagination at its finest.

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There was no nuclear holocaust in this world, just a random plague/disaster that caused every male on the planet to spontaneously drop dead. Imagine every being with a Y Chromosome, every male human, cheetah, whale, spider, ant, dove, just dropping dead instantly.

The highways are filled with wrecked cars, planes crashed, ships sank, dead bodies left everywhere. Of course the women set many things back on track, but some of them went bat shit crazy. They cut their breasts off and dyked out with bows and arrows and carpet munching viciousness decided to rape and pillage the other women.

Meanwhile some decided to make fake beards and pretend to be men to make some sort of order and balance to everything that is going on (as well as becoming tranny prostitutes).

Enter Yorick Brown, the last living human male. Escape artist, literate, clever, and teetering the line between boy and man. He loves magic tricks, comic books, video games, is in love with his girlfriend Beth (whom he proposed to right before the "incident") and is bound and determined to find her. Only problem is that she is in Australia, and he is in New York.

First, he decides to run to Washington, DC, and find his mother (a congresswoman). He wears a gas mask and tries to muster a fake girlie voice so he isn't killed by amazons or raped by some dried up hooch. After a few months, he finally runs into mommy dearest, and she sets him up with agent 355 of the Culper Ring, a secret government organization.

Three and Yorick also pick up Dr. Allison Mann, a geneticist who already tried to clone herself (*achem* lesbian *achem*), and may be able to help figure out why he survived, only problem is that they have to get to California to her lab (which ends up taking two years). Together, these three, and Yorick's male pet monkey Ampersand, will change the future and try to save the world.

Along the way they have many crazy adventures, including finding a pregnant astronaut, fighting off amazons (one of them being Yorick's sister Hero), escaping from crazy Israeli's out to kidnap the boy wonder, a battle royale on the roof of a train, lesbianism, taking out what's left of the Arizona militia, fighting more amazons, protecting Ampersand from some crazy ninja bitch, dealing with drug runners while being hunted down by the Australian navy, looking for Yorick's fiancee Beth, taking down former secret agents gone rogue, all the while trying to conceal the identity of the last man to avoid international chaos (who somehow ALWAYS finds his way into trouble).

Throughout the adventure we have seen hilarious moments, tragic losses, and intense action, all making for one hell of a ride. The final chapters will be released this year, and hopefully our heroes will get there in one piece.

My favorite scene of all was when Dr. Mann was having a most pre-menstrual day and said that animals do not feel love or emotions, everything is based on instinct, basically saying that Ampersand did not love Yorick. Cut to the monkey in a nest filled with eggs in the middle of the ocean, and one of the eggs hatches to be Yorick's face crying. Suddenly a bird swoops down to steal the egg and Amp protects it with his life, about to go all kung fu on said bird. It then cuts to Ampersand sleeping with his arms curled around his shoulders and the saddest look a monkey could ever give. For some reason it just gave me chills.

I seriously advise anyone who is a fan of fiction, whether it is sci-fi, sappy chick flicks (that ALWAYS come from some sappy chick novel), lesbians, super hero comics, Stephen King, it doesn't matter, READ THIS STORY.

I am not going to call it a comic book, because it isn't a comic book. It is a magical, fun filled, exciting, amazing adventure that I wish everyone could go through. And I know if they feel even a fraction of the intense enjoyment I get from Y The Last Man, they are hooked.