Y The Last Man cont.

Y The Last Man keeps getting better and better. I have read through volume 4 and plan on finishing 5 tonight. The pace of story stays exciting and interesting throughout it all and it rarely ever drags. I find that the dialogue also is easy to read and sounds natural. I like all the jokes that Yorick makes (even though most of them are pretty dumb). Vaughn does a good job developing all of his characters, even the small ones. For instance, when Yorick, Agent 355 and Dr. Mann were in Marrisville even the nameless faces of the women in the crowds had characters. The old lady in particular was well done; she was tough, but also empathetic. I think that Pia Guerra does an especially good job on the faces of the characters. Their faces always convey a lot of emotion and it makes the story more dynamic. A good example of some of the faces is on page 79 of the second volume.

In the third volume, One Small Step, the author reveals the reason behind the title of the story. It comes from a Mary Shelly novel called The Last Man, a story in which a plague where everyone dies except for Lionel the main character. In Y The Last Man a traveling group of actresses put on a play that they wrote about the last man on earth. The writer for the play was inspired by the appearance of the monkey Ampersand in their lives. Yorick ridicules the play and is distressed to find out that in the end of the play the last man kills himself.