Y: The Last Man
| Y: The Last Man | |
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Yorick and Ampersand on the cover of issue 23
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Vertigo |
| Schedule | Monthly (Issues 1–55) Bimonthly (Issues 56–60) |
| Format | Maxiseries |
| Genre | Post-apocalyptic, adventure, drama |
| Publication date | September 2002 – March 2008 |
| Main character(s) | |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Brian K. Vaughan |
| Penciller(s) | |
| Inker(s) | Jose Marzan Jr. |
| Collected editions | |
| Unmanned | ISBN |
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Y: The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic science fiction comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra published by Vertigo beginning in 2002. The series is about the only man who survives the apparent simultaneous death of all other male mammals on Earth except the man's pet monkey. The series was published in sixty issues by Vertigo and collected in a series of ten paperback volumes (and later a series of five hardcover "Deluxe" volumes). The series's covers were primarily by J. G. Jones and Massimo Carnevale. The series received three Eisner Awards.
The 60th and final issue of the series was celebrated with a party at Meltdown Comics, a shop on West Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, which was attended by 100 collaborators and fans, including writer/director Joss Whedon.
On July 17, 2002, all living mammals with a Y chromosome—including embryos and sperm—simultaneously die, with the exception of a young amateur escape artist named Yorick Brown and his Capuchin monkey, Ampersand. Many women die from disasters caused by the men's deaths, such as plane crashes. Society is plunged into chaos as infrastructures collapse, and the surviving women everywhere try to cope with the loss of the men, and the belief that, barring a rapid, major scientific breakthrough or other extraordinary happening, humanity is doomed to extinction.
Yorick's mother, a member of the U.S. Congress, commissions Agent 355 of the Culper Ring to protect Yorick. The two travel to meet geneticist and cloning expert Dr. Allison Mann, who works to discover why Yorick survived and find a way to save humankind. Due to damages at Mann's laboratory in Boston, the trio first travel across the country to Mann's other lab in San Francisco, then to Australia and Japan.
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