Y The Last Man

[Mr Light]

I just finished reading the entire series. COMPLETE SERIES SPOILERS!


Good comic. I'd put it up there with Preacher. Definitely had a more satisfying ending than Preacher did. The ending actually reminded me a lot of the LOST finale. They didn't directly answer the central question of the series and there was an incredible sad tear-jerking scene involving an animal.

While the early arcs felt a little time-killing, by the time they left America and got on the high seas the story definitely picked up. The storyline in Japan was definitely a fascinating climax to the story.

I gotta say, that was a bit of a downer ending. Yorick finally reunites with Beth... then immediately breaks up with her. Yorick decides he's in love with 355... and she immediately dies. Yorick poisons Ampersand as he's dying painfully (this actually made me CRY. I think Watchmen is the only other comic to make me cry!). Yorick ends up a crazy old man, a prisoner of his own benefactors. Sure the world survived, but yeesh, it didn't end very well for our characters!

So, they never actually said the actual cause of the plague. On Wiki it has the author saying ONE of the theories in the series is right but he won't say which one. Which one do you think it was? I find the most "plausible" one to be about the magical amulet of Helene leaving Jordan. The bit about the planet-wide morphogenic field carrying genetic information... I dunno. That's a little out there. I prefer "God(s) did it"

 

[Hound of UIster]

Vaughn was a writer and story editor on Lost too.

 

[Joe Washington]

Yeah, Y: The Last Man is one of the best comics I have ever read. Definitely up there with Preacher. The ending was tragic but does give the reader a peaceful sense of resolution that not a lot of stories are able to achieve. It makes me want to read the whole thing again.

 

[Reverend]

Are they still trying to make a movie out of this one, or has it slipped into the 9th circle of development hell?

 

[The Great Meech]

Looks like development hell. IMDB lists a 2011 release date and says it's "in development" with no cast list attached, and there hasn't been serious news about it since 2008.

 

[TheBrew]

Read the original run either in the library or by buying issues. I realized that I've misplaced it all and what a wonderful series it is, so I am slowly collecting the Hardcovers as they deserve a place in my library.

 

[Gaith]

Not to be too dogmatic, but if you run a search through the archives you'll find several quite modestly-sized Y threads. Granted, if you were to post your thoughts there, one or two silly people may make some lame crack about a "zombie thread", but I see it as respecting one's fellow board members enough to see what they have to say, as it'd only take two or three minutes...

 

[TheBrew]

The line I got from a Mod was that if the thread is >6 months, to start a new one.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Or, to put it another way: either Y or Y Not.

 

[Gaith]

Really? Huh. Didn't know that. Is it in the guidelines anywhere?

 

[Admiral_Young]

"Y: The Last Man" has been in development hell for the last couple of years. Shia was originally interested in doing it when it was first purchased and the director who did "Disturbia" and "Eagle Eye" I think was rumored to be attached but then that fell through and Shia kind of dropped out having never really signed a contract or anything.

I'm a big fan of the comic, and yes the ending is oddly satisfying and tear inducing at the same time. I'm also a huge "Ex Machina" fan which is being adapted into a film as well and am greatly anticipating the finale of the comic.

 

[Pilot Ace]

I'm a big fan of the comic, and yes the ending is oddly satisfying and tear inducing at the same time. I'm also a huge "Ex Machina" fan which is being adapted into a film as well and am greatly anticipating the finale of the comic.

I've been tempted to give that comic a shot, but my library only carries the first volume and although I enjoyed it... Only that one wasn't enough to get me to buy it.

Every so often I get tempted though because I loved Y: The Last Man so much.

 

[Mr Light]

Ex Machina is on my docket as well. I'll get to it one of these days! Much as I loved Preacher, the entire second half of the series was a huge disappointment. So I think I'd have to rank Y above Preacher just for having a consistently satisfying run with a good resolution.

 

[Admiral_Young]

"Ex Machina" is worth the time...it is a perfect balance of politics, action, and typical superhero story telling and it's never boring. I just finished reading the eighth volume "Dirty Tricks" and was surprised as how strong and consistent the series has been all the way through.

 

[Mr Light]

The other indie comic I'm going through right now for the first time is Bendis' "Powers". I think I'm about 20 issues into Vol 1. It's pretty good but I wish there was SOME actual super-hero action in it. Also, how come every story is about a hero being murdered? Where are all the super villains? And why is the answer to the mystery always so damned mundane?

 

[Admiral_Young]

That's because "Powers" isn't really your typical superhero comic book...it's a cop buddy book that happens to take place in a world populated by heroes. The wikipedia article on "Powers" has quotes from Oeming and Bendis describing the themes and influences. I've read the first volume of the original ongoing series arc and found it really good. My library doesn't carry the other volumes so I've not been able to continue reading it

 

[Brikar99]

I'm just finishing up re-reading this series (I have the 10 trade collections). It's one of my faves. I've heard about the movie, but personally I'd prefer a TV series if it were going to be adapted. And especially with another one of my favorites, "The Walking Dead" coming this year, I'd love to see a "Y" TV series along with it.

 

[firehawk12]

BKV has said he prefers a movie to a TV series anyway.

 

[Gaith]

Yeah, but that's crazy talk. Maybe he just wants the bigger paycheck?

I know he's said it's a budgetary concern thing, and a photoreal budget would indeed be huge, but why must it be photoreal? Since it'd be based on a GN, why couldn't they greenscreen most of everything they couldn't easily build on a soundstage? Sort of like human actors in environments at Clone Wars-level mattes/animation, or Sin City with more or less realistic color schemes. That way they could do the whole story justice; I can't imagine that cramming it into even several movies would work.

 

[firehawk12]

I think the original quote (which may still be on Wikipedia) is that he feels he can tell the entire story in a single, big film. Certainly he isn't one of those people who feel like adaptations need to be slavishly dedicated to the source material (the plan to have 60 episodes of Preacher with each shot lifted directly from the books? Yeah, I'm not sure if that's absolutely necessary).

If he thinks he could adapt the themes of his book into a film and construct a plot that's similar to the comics? He'd have something I'm sure.