Welcome to Litsy!

I honestly can't remember how far I got in this series the first time I tried it, for all I know, it wasn't a heavy course load or a sucky mid-twenties job that stopped me finishing it (as it stopped me reading most things for about a decade), it was that the publication run hadn't yet finished. This time I checked series completion status before I started! And after this volume, I'm very interested in reading on. 1/?

Why do the cult leaders always have the best lines?
Wait...I think I just answered my own question...
Charisma + silver tongue = dangerous.

Decided to revisit this volume to continue reading the series. My first read I found Yorick interesting...in my second read, I'm questioning as to why he lived and the rest of male species were wiped out-I guess that's what Brian K Vaughn wants us to think. I would like to see what comes up in volume 2 #graphicnovels

It's time for a re-read..
I read the complete series back in 2015/16 and after I watched few episodes of the TV series (and got super bored!!) I wanted to revisit the story..

Random pick from the library, binge-read on the weekend. Great stuff!

Yes!!! I finished my first #ReadingChallenge #LitsyAtoZ @BookishMarginalia 🥳🥳🥳🥳

I normally dont read books like this but this was interesting and really funny

Thank you for this Youthful #ManicMonday @JoScho 😁

#LetterY
📖 - “Y the Last Man” by Brian K Vaughan, my favorite graphic novel series! 🤓
📝 - Young, Adrienne
🎥 - “Young Sherlock Holmes” (very underrated... it even has a stained glass window that comes to life! 😱)
📺 - “(The) Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
🎤 - Young, Neil
🎸 - (The) Yeah Yeah Yeahs
🎶 “You Really Got Me” by Van Halen (although the original by The Kinks is great, too!)

I liked this one but I never feel satisfied with the story from just one book of a comic series. I need to binge a few in a row!

Omg, I LOVED this!! One of my best friends husband recommended this series to me ages ago. This image is a different style than what the rest of the actual comic is, but it was one of the most striking and my favorite. Every mammal on Earth with a Y chromosome has mysteriously and simultaneously died, all but the man Yorick and his monkey, Ampersand. Embarking on a quest to track down a cloning doctor to help save mankind, Yorick and co. must ⬇️

I loved Vaughan‘s Saga series, so picking up “Y: The Last Man” was a no-brainer; but I should have started it right after I picked it up in ‘19 rather than waiting to do so now. The art was crisp & expressive and, the storyline held a tension reminiscent of King‘s, ‘The Stand‘ (I can see why SK would give it a rave blurb); but reading PA stories right now doesn‘t offer me the escapism I crave during “These Uncertain Times”.

Still, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🙂

Only three? This is hard! 😁

Thank you for the #Favs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks and thank you for tagging me @Librarybelle 😊

Rankings are subject to change:
1️⃣ “Mistborn: The Final Empire” by Brandon Sanderson
2️⃣ “Villains By Necessity” by Eve Forward
3️⃣ “Y the Last Man” by Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra. (I‘m counting the entire series as one book, it really was all one cohesive story!)

@Branwen @Meaw_catlady Would you like to play? 😀

#7Days7Books Day 6

We present here 7 books that will remain in our minds, because they touched us so much, changed us.
No further comments!

@Beatlefan129 Would you like to play “7 days 7 books”? 😀📚

Here‘s an example of what I mean about the time thing: The whole of the first issue of “Unmanned” is a countdown happening in near real-time. This page counts down the final seconds in the story in just as many seconds as it takes to read it and yet when you look at the page as a whole you see how it‘s part of one actual moment, the breath before the next page.

Just started this one about an hr ago and finished the first issue of “Unmanned.” I‘m a slow comics book reader because I not only read the text, I look at every panel carefully, and how it‘s all laid out on the page. It‘s hard to explain, but it‘s like looking at things in real, non-linear time with each page, each shift in color. I know, I know... What drugs am I on?! 😜

Anyway, a virus is wiping out all w/a Y chromosome except this 1 guy...

Saw this on Twitter yesterday and I couldn‘t be more excited. I raced through the first volume & then returned to the comic store the next day to buy the other four—had to know what happened & it did not disappoint. I also really love Charlie Jane Anders‘ writing & have increasingly high hopes for the tv show with this announcement. I‘ll definitely be watching!

I'll be straight with you Brian. After what you did to my heart with Saga I'm not sure you deserve the opportunity to do it all again. But I'm the forgiving type so I'm going to give you a break.

Just ... be gentle with me, okay?

A shout out to @ElishaLovesBooks who brought this to my attention. Super excited to see Vaughan‘s Y: The Last Man when it hits tv next year. 🤞it‘ll be good!

(This headline/image is from io9.)

Missed a couple of weeks over winter break—oops. So, Y...

Book: Y: The Last Man (Brian K. Vaughan is a great storyteller)
Author: Skottie Young (love everything he does—writing and illustrating)
Movie: Your Friend The Rat (a Pixar short)
Food: Yogurt

#manicmonday #letterY @JoScho

3.5 stars to Y: The Last Man, Book 1. The idea and some of the execution were cool, but there was also transphobia and lots of uses of the r-slur. I‘ll still probably continue the series in the hopes that it will improve.

A very engaging premise: all men on earth suddenly, mysteriously die from a violent plague like disease, leaving just one left. Yorick Brown and his male pet monkey Ampersand travel in search of his girlfriend Beth, but along the way discover that being the last man on earth puts a target on his back.

This was cool beans. That is all

Read the first volume of this today and I'm like...ehhhhh? It felt sexist, I didn't appreciate the depictions of Arab peoples, including Palestinians, the main character, Yorick, is a bumbling annoyance, and the monkey is a cheap tack-on... Does it get better? I know a lot of people love this series.

Had me intrigued from the beginning, just the premise is intriguing. Have the second book on hold at the library and will be impatiently waiting for it to get to my library.

Do you own multiple copies of the same book?

With its brilliant storytelling and dynamic characters that leap off the page, “Y The Last Man” is my favorite graphic novel series of all time. I love it so much that I own digital and paperback copies of the entire series, as well as this beautiful hardcover edition with oversized pages to really bring out the artwork and lettering. It can truly be said I can‘t get enough of this series! 😀📚

I‘m very intrigued by the premise of this graphic novel. Yorick is the only man left on Earth after some sort of virus or plague leaves only women left alive. Great artwork and great dialogue and lots of unanswered questions make me want to read book 2! Also, his sidekick is a monkey named Ampersand! Which I think is very cool 😎

I hope to finish reviewing the other books I just finished soon, but in the meantime this is the book I just started reading. So far I really like it but I‘m just a few pages in.

Hit 101 books on the year, 30 of which came in April. Heavy on the comics & all credit to strong performances in the ongoing series I‘m reading as well as a strong set of recommendations from my favorite comic shop. The tagged book was my favorite—once I started, I couldn‘t put it down. Always love IHF & family seeing Skottie Young was bookish highlight of month. Veronica Speedwell because, Exit West was beautiful & Oyeyemi‘s book was phenomenal.

I loved this comic & will be making a return trip to the store to get the remaining volumes. Today. It. Is. That. Good. All the men, boys, & mammals with Y chromosomes are dead—except Yorick & his pet monkey (also a boy). Women fall into one of two camps—Amazons who want to kill Yorick & his pet, & others who want them alive. There‘s more of course & the ending leaves you sorta 😮 & wow, I want to read more. Being last man on Earth is not so easy.

Bonus points for the Monty Python reference.

Feeling restless & having a little trouble picking the next book to read so, I‘m going with a comic for tonight‘s reading. Stephen King blurbed it & said it was the “best graphic novel I‘ve ever read.” This was one of the Chicago Comics recommendations—in 2002, every man, every boy & every mammal with a Y chromosome on Earth dies—with the exception of a single man & his pet monkey—leaving women to rebuild civilization. Sounds awesome!

Very interesting! The art isn't bad either, but maaaan are some of the things said dated. Sheesh 😑

Also: 😆🇨🇦😂🇨🇦😆 #currentlyreading

I lol‘d 🤣🤣 #currentlyreading

Another pun, this one visual!
"They turned one of the monuments into an ad hoc memorial for all the men"
"Which monument?"
"Guess"

#speechbubblechallenge #letsgetgraphicweeklongmarathon

GREATEST OF ALL TIME
After all the men on earth (except one) die, one woman said "it suddenly hit me today, The Rolling Stones are dead."
"In one day, we lost....."
#SpeechBubbleChallenge
#letsgetgraphicweeklongmarathon

#letsgetgraphicweeklongmarathon #speechbubblechallenge
Riot Girls and Hero wins this round

How often have we said this?!?
#speechbubblechallenge
Throwback
#letsgetgraphicweeklongmarathon

#speechbubblechallenge
#letsgetgraphicweeklongmarathon
Pun of all Puns
"You're not the only BORE on this train. Get it? BORE?"
"Actually these are sows. The plague killed all the BOARS."

Death Stare.
All the men in the world except one have died.
#letsgetgraphicweeklongmarathon

My husband is a happy camper! His favorite comic from the generous @AnnieD 🎁❤️

Interesting enough, but this is one of those rare cases where I completely recognized this book was intended to be a set-up book, and was made impatient by it. I usually am pretty forgiving of books for taking the time to world-build, but not in this case. There was quite a bit to ponder, and at no time did the pacing feel too slow. I just felt like the book wasn't quite hitting its intended mark. I might pick up the second book... eventually.

Brian K. Vaughan is a graphic genius. This series is far and a tad violent. Can‘t wait to get my hands on the rest of this series!!! #graphicnovel #sogood #love

#weekendplans #muchlove #shortandsweet

I've had this one for a while and I finally got round to reading it. I enjoyed it, buut I'm not 100% sure how I feel about it. I'm definitely going to read the rest ( but later, I'm currently on a book buying ban 😂) but the truth is while I love the premise and some aspects there are others I didn't love ( not sure how I feel about the amazons for example) and so far yorick is the least interesting character - but still a fun read.

Gone on a graphic novel kick today. This is Bk1 of Y:The Last Man & it was very interesting, but very dark & violent. 2002 and in a second everything alive with a Y chromosome, be it man, animal etc, is dead. All except a young man called Yorrick & his monkey Ampersand. Now he just has to stay alive to save humankind, and yeah find his girlfriend in Australia. As expected in a Brian.K.Vaughan comic, it's complicated. 4⭐️

#bookmail or rather graphic novel mail I guess! I'm really looking forward to reading all these great series. The one I look forward to the most is Saga, but I think I'll start with Y - the last man book one, since that series is complete! Saga and Paper Girls are ongoing and I know I'll suffer waiting for the next issues when I get all the available ones.

#deweys24hourreadathon selection #6. From this point on, regardless of how long I last, it's graphic novels all the way. This one was highly recommended by a friend & also counts as my "Y" selection for #litsyatoz.

Before I read this, I had no idea what it was about, but I read another by Brian K Vaughan that I really liked, which is why I chose it. Brian has a gift for humour in his graphic novels whilst maintaining a great plot line and suspense. Really enjoyed.

A little light Monday reading.