Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401204877
ISBN: 1401204872
Label: Vertigo
Manufacturer: Vertigo
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2005-07-13
Publisher: Vertigo
Release Date: 2005-08-01
Studio: Vertigo

Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, finally makes it to San Francisco where his unbalanced sister, Hero, finds him seemingly succumbing to the male-killing plague after losing his still-unused engagement ring to the burqa-clad agents of the Setauket Ring. But is the ring really the key to his survival? And what does it have to do with the mysterious Amulet of Helene, which the Setauket leader is determined to take from Agent 355 by any means necessary.

Customer Rating:
Summary: 8 comics collected together in this groundbreaking series
Comment: In eight individual comics of a series a lot can happen and a lot does happen to Yorick, 355, and Dr. Mann. First Yorick has an adventure of his own in a Catholic Church then as a mascot for a basketball game and finally a break through in Dr. Mann's lab as she discovers a reason for his and Ampersand's survival. In between we learn about what happened and is happening in the lives of two more women important to Yorick: His girlfriend, Beth, in Australia, and his sister, Hero, battling the Amazon brainwashing. But all the positives seem to fly out the door as another secret group destroys a sacred artifact that they believe led to the plague and a ninja, yup, a ninja, steals Ampersand.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Comment: This story keep getting better the more I read. Volume 5 keep this story more and more fun to read.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: best in the series
Comment: This is the best book in the series. I really started to like Yorick in this book. And the story begins moving forward after being drifting in the Midwest for a long time. It is well worth the read if you get the opportunity.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Questions I Didn't Think Would Be Addressed Until The Final Issue Are Finally Answered... Top Notch Reading
Comment: Ever since the first issue of the Safeword arc, "Y: The Last Man" has been a non-stop ride of awesome issue after awesome issue after awesome issue. Fans will be especially pleased with this book, the fifth collection of the series, as it is by far the longest one yet. It collects eight issue, and is composed of the two-issue "Tongues of Flame" arc, the one-shot "Hero's Journey," and the five-issue arc, "Ring of Truth," which this trade paperback is named for.

Until this point, Brian K. Vaughan has been building the story quite nicely, leaving us asking question after question, but always satisfying us with each twist of the plot. But things start to change here. New developments are made, yes, but as Yorick, 355, and Dr. Mann finally reach the destination they've been aiming for since the first volume, answered to those burning questions are heaped upon us like food on a Thanksgiving Day plate.

+ What was up with that Toyota lady from One Small Step?

+ Who were those cloaked women who assassinated Agent 711 in Safeword?

+ Why did Yorick's mother work with the Russians in One Small Step?

+ What made Hero so bad? (Hero actually gets her own one-shot in this issue, which is composed entirely of flash-backs. I was apprehensive when I saw it coming up, because I found the "side story" at the end of One Small Step to be frustrating. But my weariness for another tale that deviated from the main story line of Y were blown away by "Hero's Journey." It's one of the best comics I've read and gives us invaluable insight into one of the series's most interesting characters.)

+ Also, most importantly, we finally hear Dr. Mann's theory on why Yorick survived the plague.

With humor, drama, and some of the best action you'll find in comics, wrier Brian K. Vaughan and penciller Pia Guerra (who illustrates all eight issues this time around) continue to blow me away with Yorick's epic story. I'm sure fans and critics alike will agree that this, as the cover boasts, is "top-notch."

9/10

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Gets better and better
Comment: Volume 5 was incredibly exciting, and answered the one question Y readers have been asking since the series began; "What caused all the men to die?" This volume also shows how complex Hero is, and how she tries to fight the demons within herself. If you read the first 4 volumes, this one will not disappoint.

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