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Y the Last Man is a reader-hating bottle of shit

Is anybody else reading this? If you are, for the love of all that is holy, please stop.
If you're not, just fucking don't.
30 issues and $90 dollars ago it was an innovative bit of speculative fiction, with wild pulp-adventure twists and lots of interesting takes on the gender wars.
Then the intrepid heroes got to San Francisco and lost the plot, lost the fun, lost the narrative cohesion, and started figuring out how to take every interesting bit of character business up until then and turn it around into a series of "oh you liked that? fuck off then!" splash pages, one after another.

Yes, I'm going to spend 6 more dollars to complete this series. And then I'm going to set fire to it. Or put it on eBay. Whichever will reduce my bile quicker.

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[ posted by Jake at 09/10/2007 03:36:02 AM ]
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brandonA [email] said at 2:47 PM 09-10-2007:
This plot was already done in a sliders episode. I read the first issue, but didn't like it very much - not bad just kind of dull.

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jake [email] said at 3:01 PM 09-10-2007:
Any single episode is hard to take. What was great about the first half was that Brian K Vaughn and Pia Guerra took all these pulpy concepts, derived from lots of other work, and threw them together in a world with very real rules of cause and effect. The whole thing felt thought-out and thought-through, even though many elements were wildly outlandish.

But once they got all the ideas up in the air, they had no idea how to bring them all down again. So they just started grabbing balls and throwing them into the dirt.

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josh [email] said at 4:02 PM 09-10-2007:
i liked Y the last man for maybe like 20 or so issues but then it got wayyyy crappy. seems like they didnt expect it to last as long as it has, maybe?

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jake [email] said at 4:06 PM 09-10-2007:
Maybe. My thought is that Vaughan didn't think he'd have so many other successful projects that he likes better. Did you stop before the Cosmonaut storyline?

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josh [email] said at 4:49 PM 09-10-2007:
i think so. that sounds familiar. this was a few years ago when i was reading these, though.

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josh [email] said at 4:49 PM 09-10-2007:
i mean, i think i stopped AFTER that

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jake [email] said at 8:27 PM 09-10-2007:
That was about 5 issues before it went off the rails. What's especially frustrating is that it's not like they just got a new writer who didn't know how to deal with the scope of the story.

Even up into the high 40's there were inspired moments, like seeing a football stadium used as a mass grave. And the dialog stays solid, so the great characters stay great, even as they stumble through one inane plot twist after another. Now that we're in the last issues, Brian K Vaughn could have pulled out an inspired ending, but instead he's going for twists that would make M. Night Shyamalan cringe. And that's coming from a Shyamalan fan.

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Bendependent [email] said at 5:23 PM 09-10-2007:
i read the first group of them that was compiled into a book. couldn't get into it either. thought it suffered from the same sort of cheesiness that keeps me from getting into a lot of comics...

never been my thing.

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jeremy [email] said at 8:41 PM 09-10-2007:
I liked the first 15 or so issues but didn't read past that

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zack [email] said at 6:10 AM 09-11-2007:

I've been reading it in the trades, for free in the stores. I enjoy it for the most part... But I did hear a lot of negative rumblings on the internet about this most recent issue. Thanks for not posting spoilers, even though I'm sure it'll get ruined for me before I read the last trade.

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jake [email] said at 4:40 PM 09-11-2007:
Your welcome. Just know that you're not going to get your money's worth.

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zack [email] said at 6:13 PM 09-11-2007:
maybe you meant that as a joke, but i'm not paying for it so that's fine. I can spare the 2$ for the americano i drink while reading it.

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josh [email] said at 6:18 PM 09-11-2007:
why not zcult or demonoid that shizz? not even worth the ratio?

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zack [email] said at 5:19 AM 09-12-2007:
I like sitting at Powell's for a couple hours reading stuff and drinking coffee. It's nice, and I can wait for the trade on stuff like this (though I actually collected it for a while near the beginning).

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