Anyone else read this?

The end was so fuckin' depressing. Yes, the world is recovering from the plague and cloning has been perfected enough that they are starting to clone men, but Yorick's life has been in the shitter since 355 was killed. Throughout the series, Vaughan mixed up the darker moments with some levity, but this issue was a complete downer. The title takes place 60 years later and it boils down to: Everyone dies, and Yorick ends up imprisoned by his own daughter, locked away in a straight jacket, reminiscing about everyone he has lost over the years. It's the first time that I've disliked something that Vaughan has written.

I s'pose after 355's murder it was too much to hope that things would start to look up for him, but still - a life filled with loneliness and grief was how Vaughan wanted to end things for Yorick? Wiping out half the world's population wasn't tragic enough? Christ.


Spoilers.

How did 355 die? And what turned out to be the plague?

Don't really care so much about Yorick--Him being a douche and all.

I haven't read this since the fifth TPB.

355 got sniped by that Isrealie army chick. I thought I read the plague was evolution kicking in after dr. mann cloned herself, but I wasn't regular on the series for the last 20 or so issues so I'm not sure exactly. that wouldn't explain how yorick survived.

I read that evolution part, but I got the feeling that-that was just a faux climax that helped build up to the real reason. The idea was so absurd, it felt like it came right out of the final acts of Watchmen, so I was pretty confident that he was building up to the plague having something to do with the pendant 355 took from the middle eastern chick.

the plague was caused by Doctor Mann's father. Ampersand was one of his lab monkies but due to a shipping error (the helper monkey going to Yorrick and Ampersand got out of their cages at the airport and were put back in the wrong ones).

im glad this series is dead.

Yorick has a kid? Did he ever find his girlfriend? What the hell is he in prison for?

I gave up on it somewhere around issue 7.

I liked the issue. The truth is there was no real "happy" way to end this series. Not after all that yorick has been through. But seeing him pull an escape artist trick one last time to free himself was a nice way to end it I thought...

yes. yes. he was a crazy old man.

So that wasn't just a misleading plot device? Vaughn actually said all things are empathically linked to their respective evolutionary status'?

Wow. I really really really really REALLY wish I hadn't bought the TPBs.

The New York Times

• FANS tend to be in obsessive awe of Brian K. Vaughan, the 31-year-old co-producer of the ABC show “Lost” and the writer of the popular comic book “Y: The Last Man,” created with the artist Pia Guerra.
  
  So what happened the other night when around 100 collaborators, friends and comic junkies came to Meltdown Comics, a shop on West Sunset Boulevard, to toast the recently published 60th and final issue of “Y”? A lot of hero-worship for a reluctant hero.
  
  “It’s Brian’s night, and I’m geeking out,” said Joss Whedon, 43, the creator of the television series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
  
  Even though the comic-book series is over, “I’ll still be stalking Brian,” said Nick Igoe, 23, a fan who had traveled from Minneapolis and wore a “Y” sweatshirt embroidered by his grandmother.
  
  Also on hand was Jeff Garlin, 45, the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star, looking relatively trim in a sweatshirt and jeans, and holding a bagful of just-purchased comics. “I have a mad crush on ‘Y: The Last Man,’ ” he said.
  
  Baby-faced, bald and clad in a black suit, a black shirt, black dress shoes and red socks, Mr. Vaughan was cowed by the attention. “I’m totally mortified,” he said. “ ‘Y’ is just the product of five years alone in a room.”
  
  “Y: The Last Man” is the saga of Yorick Brown, a commitment-phobic escape artist who is the lone survivor of a plague that wipes out the male population of Earth; he and a Capuchin monkey named Ampersand travel a world inhabited entirely by women.
  
  A stand-in for Ampersand, named Zuni, was posing for photographs beside a beverage cooler in the shape of R2-D2.
  
  “I jokingly told the store I would do this event if they had a live monkey,” said Mr. Vaughan, who slipped Zuni’s trainer a $5 tip.
  
  Ms. Guerra, 36, was particularly enchanted by the animal. “I’ve never seen a live monkey before,” she said. “I cheated and based Ampersand on my cat.”
  
  Damon Lindelof, 34, a creator and the executive producer of “Lost,” explained why he offered Mr. Vaughan a job on “Lost.”
  
  “Brian spends at least 93 percent of his life apologizing,” Mr. Lindelof said. “He has an idea brain. And he hates himself like we do.”
  
  During a question-and-answer session, Mr. Vaughan apologized to the crowd for making everybody come out on a Friday night. He explained that the writers’ strike had put the movie adaptation of “Y” in “sort of a Han Solo cryogenic freeze.”
  
  When Mr. Whedon told the audience that he had wiped away tears as he read the last issue of “Y,” Mr. Vaughan’s face turned the color of his socks. “He’s the whole reason I became a writer,” Mr. Vaughan said later.
  
  After the Meltdown party, Mr. Vaughan and company headed to Ye Coach and Horses, a nearby British-theme bar. Mr. Vaughan said the end of the series was finally hitting him.
  
  “It’s been like the five stages of dealing with death,” he said. “Tonight was really the acceptance, and I’m at peace with that. It’s actually a nice feeling. And now, I need a drink.”

That's crap.

Well, I gave up after the 5th tpb too. The series overstayed its welcome. It was just too drawn out for what it was.

Some things I don't really understand because I missed so many, but when did Hero start fucking Beth? I thought that was just plain weird.

That was a "twist" they threw in in the very last issue.

Aye. Having nookie will do that sometimes. He hooked up with some chippie early on and had a kid, though he didn't know it for a long while.



Yes, but he realized that he was in love with 355 an issue later.



He tried to kill himself, so his daughter, who in the last ish is now President of France, had him locked away and put in a straight jacket to protect him from himself.

Pah.

Sounds like someone shot a load of Gay all over the script.