Y - The Last Man #60 Review

Y: THE LAST MAN #60
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Pia Guerra & José Marzan Jr.

The final issue of Y can be summed up in one word - disappointment. I came away from this wishing they had just ended it with #59 and that's a pretty damning statement in regards to the quality of this issue.

As many predicted, they went with a time skip for this issue and it's 60 years in the future. Cloning is how they are surviving and growing as a community. Yorick has been cloned multiple times and we see most of the issue through one of the clones eyes. Yes, he looks identical to Yorick from 60 years ago.

Our Yorick supposedly tried to kill himself on his 86th birthday and is locked away, as seen on the cover, in a straightjacket. They sent the cloned Yorick to cheer him up, apparently. They have a little chat, Yorick makes some jokes and claims his suicide was a joke, as in he was 86'd, but no one gets it. He's got an army of cloned Ampersands living with him in there and, after a few random flashback scenes, they attack the clone while Yorick escapes out the window. The issue ends with Yorick's straightjacket blowing in the wind.

The issue just didn't click with me. It had it's moments, but they were few and far between. I wanted to see what happened to people, find out how the world changed, if men were ever going to make a comeback. All I got was Yorick locked up and a bunch of clone nonsense. There's not even any fallout from the death of 355 or the ending from last issue. We don't even see Yorick's kid or the numerous supporting characters, unless it is in passing or the occasional name dropping.

Verdict - Check It. It's servicable, but I would rather ignore it completely and will probably never go out of my way to read it again. I'd say Avoid It, but this is the last issue and we'll never get any Y ever again. So it's worth it in that regard, but it wasn't what I expected, it wasn't what I wanted, it didn't answer any lingering questions I had and it failed in properly showing me the future of these characters and the affects and lasting impressions they made on the world were.

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