(A-) 84% | Very GoodNotes: Spends every penny of banked emotional currency on reunions, confessions, farewells and a pitch-perfect final issue.

NOT my fave of the series which is a shame considering it's the conclusion. I feel like it jumped around too much and the story revisited characters who we hadn't encountered for a while. There was no recap or anything so sometimes it would take me some time to remember who characters were. The ending felt a little sudden as well. But honestly this is still a great series and I'm glad (but also sad) that I made it to the end.

I read books 4 and 5 back to back. This has been. great series throughout. The last few issues become quite emotional, one aa different character arcs are finished ( not giving any spoilers) and you can sense an ending appearing around the corner. The theorys for the plague are great. You never really get a definitive answer or explanation. Definitely reccomended if you want a series to stick with for 60 issues.

"It's not how you start, but how you finish."Truer words have never been spoken. To quote from my much beloved Supernatural: Endings are hard. Any chapped-ass monkey with a keyboard can poop out a beginning, but endings are impossible. You try to tie up every loose end, but you never can. The fans are always gonna bitch. There's always gonna be holes. And since it's the ending, it's all supposed to add up to something. I'm telling you, they're a raging pain in the ass. Anyone who has ever fallen...

Well this is it. The End. What an adventure. What a send-off. All of the storylines and every character come to a head here in an epic finale that matches the intensity of the rest of the series. Yorick and his ability to grow on you. Dr. Mann and her intelligence and snark. Ampersand and his knack for getting into trouble. Natalya and her accent. Hero and her 360º character arc. Alter and her steadfast dedication. And my favorite, 355 and her ultimate badassery. I didn't realize how I attached

“As far as answers go, it was … vaguely unsatisfying.” “After everything we’ve been through? Is there any explanation that would have been satisfactory?” You’ve got to admire a writer who is willing to own up to this! And it’s true. There was no way there was going to be a truly satisfying explanation for what started the events of this story. But this is still very much a comic series/graphic novel worth reading. It takes a crazy hypothesis: What if only one man were left on earth? and ju

So of course, having finished book 4, I jumped straight into book 5.This book messed me up. I’ve become so attached to these characters and their back and forth banter, I just wasn’t ready to say goodbye.The overall conclusion to the problem of the gendercide isn’t the resolution I was hoping for, but it’s the one that made the most sense (scientifically speaking).Major spoilers: (view spoiler)[355 getting killed was pretty devastating. Especially as she and Yorick we’re finally admitting how th...

Wow. I hadn't realized this was the final volume of this series! I'm so sad to discover that that is the case!But that aside, all I can say is that I really really loved this series. It's my favorite graphic novel series I've read so far, that's for sure. I don't want to give anything away, so all I will say is that it's nothing short of greatness. The ending felt a little rushed, and I haven't decided yet exactly how I feel about the way the story ended, but despite the fact that I may have pre...

I know they say he's had emotional growth, but the minute he doesn't like something, he has the same stupid knee jerk reactions he's always had.Observe him with Beth. He proposes to her, has sex with her, and then decides that he doesn't want to be with her, because she wanted to break up with him a long time ago, rightfully, because he was a nutjob. Because he has plan b, 355. Who tells him, correctly, that he needs to shut up, because chances are that he will ditch her the minute they have sex...

This is not so much a review of this volume alone, but of the series as a whole.And I just don't get why everyone loves it so much. To me it feels like a work of its time, and reads as kind of quaint and unsubtle to me, old fashioned.It presents its apocalypse as world changing (which it by definition is), but doesn't really explore the horror - half the world's population suddenly dies, in quite a gruesome way. That's approximately 3.5 billion corpses that need to be moved and disposed of. I kn...

This review is based on the entire seriesHaving read the first two volumes of his latest series Saga, I decided to get the entire series of Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, which has been much loved by people such as Joss Whedon, so the series must be good.The story centres on Yorick Brown, who becomes the last man on Earth when a plague wipes out every living mammal with a Y chromosome, making the Earth as a world ruled by women. Along with his pet male monkey Ampersand, Yori...

3.75 stars. The big finale. Everyone is headed to France. Yorick looking for his GF Beth, the other Beth and the astronaut lady and Hero looking for Yorick and the Israeli general looking for them all. After 4 or 5 years ( I can’t remember) how will the reunion of Yorick and Beth go? Will the Israeli army find them? What happens with Dr. Mann’s research? Will she fix the “no men” problem? All the answers are here. This was a pretty decent ending. It had all the drama one would expect with all th...

I'm not the best judge of whether an ending is satisfying. I tend to prefer the start of any series to the end of it because I love to see where it begins. This series has had it's ups and downs for me and this book is no exception. That being said, I wouldn't say this ending was dissatisfying. It's more that I saw a way I wanted it to go, it didn't go there and I'm having to adjust.I didn't like the idea that 355/Dr. Mann was really over after they slept together once. There was such a great re...

YOU KILLED MY AMPERSAND???????????.....F**K :(((that was a very good tale....but I'll give it 4 stars instead of 5 for the shitty end :(

Motherland (#49-52). We're clearly near the end because this is the first really conclusive Y story. Lots of the science is explained, especially all the cloning that we've been getting since volume one, and we may even have an answer for the plague. Along the way, several of our characters are in real danger, and it's not clear who will make it out. Put together strong tension and interesting answers to long-standing questions, and you have one of Y's best stories [5/5].The Obituarist (#53). Wo...

The ending of "Y The Last Man" came up so suddenly I almost didn't see it coming, which isn't a complaint. It's merely a lament: I was so saddened by the ending primarily because I just didn't want it to end.Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's phenomenal graphic novel series comes to its amazing, tear-jerking, beautiful conclusion in "Y The Last Man: The Deluxe Edition Book Five", in which: the source of the man-ending plague is finally revealed; Yorrick is finally reunited with his fiancee Beth;

Even though I'm not sure how to feel about the ending, this comic series is sure to remain one of my favorites of all-time.

This was an interesting series. Story was well thought off, an overall quality sci-fi. The explanation as of why all the males died was gibberish though, Vaughan should have thought something better than that collective memory shit. Art isn't my cup of tea but it supports the story sufficiently and the pop culture references stole the show. At the end, the way relationships between the protagonists were portrayed (especially yorick and 355), how dynamics worked and the final destination for each...

Damn it.I read this volume in a single sitting, staying up later than I ever intended to to finish it. Once I started I just couldn't stop. Remember how much you love the Golden Trio? Remember how much you wanted answers? All of that gets cashed in for the final arc, every bit of it being played upon. And you know what? It's done beautifully. Perfectly.If you went into this volume wanting answers, you'll be slightly disappointed. This isn't really as much about getting every question answered -

As a series this started a bit slow but once it got rolling it hit all the marks. Funny, great art, a great plot that keep you guessing as to what will come next and finally this series take the cultural shots you expect in a Dystopia tale. All in all, if you like your Sacred Cows well done, this is the series for you.