Since Yorick’s mother is a congresswoman, he’s protected by secret spies.

Furthermore, the entire social fabric has gone to hell, with gun-wielding wives of Republican representatives insisting on getting their husbands’ seats and tribes of latter-day Amazons claiming males were meant to die. It’s hard enough to drive down the block, since the streets are jammed with the cars of men who were behind the wheel when the instantaneous plague hit. Yorick would prefer to find his girlfriend, but it’s hard to get a flight halfway around the world when almost all the pilots and mechanics are gone.

At least that’s what the (now all-female) government thinks.

Yorick is the last man on earth, and in the resulting chaos, he must find a way to help save the human race. “Yorick Brown is an escape artist has a fabulous girlfriend who’s traveling in Australia and possesses a genetic make-up that’s allowed him to survive a plague that killed every male being on the planet except for him and his pet monkey. Rather pedestrian artwork doesn’t do much to liven the story, though its straightforwardness imparts deadpan believability to such ramifications as the female secretary of agriculture ascending to the presidency.” (Source: Booklist, Vol.99(11), p.970) He is also trying, with a bioengineer who may be responsible for the worldwide ‘gendercide,’ to figure out why he survived hoping to reach his girlfriend in Australia and, of course, contemplating the repopulation of the planet. He spends most of the story on the run from a tribe of self-styled Amazons bent on eliminating the last vestige of patriarchy. congresswoman and, as it happens, an amateur escape artist. That is the provocative premise of the comics series…The sole Y-chromosomed survivor is an amiable, headstrong young man, the son of a U.S. “A mysterious plague has killed every man on earth except Yorick Brown, who was somehow spared. Gender is discussed in terms that may be considered regressive by modern readers, particularly those who are sensitive to transphobia and transphobic language.Ģ008 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Finalist for Best Other WorkĢ008 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Seriesġ7th GLAAD Media Award Nominee for Outstanding Comic Bookġ8th GLAAD Media Award Nominee for Outstanding Comic BookĢ009 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story - Nominee Accompanied by a mysterious government agent, a brilliant young geneticist and his pet monkey, Ampersand, Yorick travels the world in search of his lost love and the answer to why he’s the last man on earth. Vaughan ( Lost, PRIDE OF BAGHDAD, EX MACHINA) and with art by Pia Guerra, this is the saga of Yorick Brown-the only human survivor of a planet-wide plague that instantly kills every mammal possessing a Y chromosome.

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