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Y: The Last Issues

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00:58 / 07.09.07

Fucking hell. Vaughan's debt to Joss Whedon has rarely been clearer than herein, arguably. If you thought it was harsh when Gert died...

I have to say that this book has really become one of the comics I rate most highly when it comes to doing character, so the end of this issue was just devastating. I somehow don't think we're going to see a Preacher-style reversal, either. Which is just... appalling. Heart-breaking. The way death is. This issue makes you want to call up the one you love the most and just check they're still there.

What's in store for the last two issues, then? Bloody revenge? It would seem what's being cried out for, and yet it's not exactly Y's style...

02:57 / 07.09.07

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I coulndna said it better, Petey... oy. I especially loved the way 355 revealed her secret, the cut-away to a different angle and perspective away from them that kept their moment intimate - how perfect was that? And that last page... wow, hang on - I was so haunted by the halo of blood I only now noticed the Y-shape... why? indeed.

On a lighter note, BKV's russian-interpreted english is outstanding! Loved reading every word.

Anyone need a few laughs after this? A while back I directed a short film - it's my own take on the "last man on earth" genre. Enjoy.

05:14 / 07.09.07

What's in store for the last two issues, then?

A bit more all-girl action, perhaps?

Toss in a monkey gag, some gunplay, and enough post-Hornby cant about the battle of the sexes to make even Ben Elton think twice, and you'd arguably have the perfect way for this series to limp off, gently, into the darkness.

(As an aside, there's quite an amusing joke about the movie adaptation of 'Y' on Millarworld.)

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10:30 / 07.09.07

I'm sure there isn't.

Perhaps shitticisms from people who aren't reading the comic could be kept out of this thread?

20:26 / 07.09.07

I dropped out of Y after the Girl-on-Girl trade paperback.

Is it worth getting back into and catching up on the intervening trades in time for the finish?

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21:07 / 07.09.07

SPOILER

I'm sure it was all very intentional for me to feel this way concerning 355's fate... but... damn it, it'd be actually pretty perfect if they'd stayed together. That Vaughan-type twist was actually a good one this time, re-painting (or just bringing light to the fact that) the entire series as truly about these two people's relationship all along.

Though it still is, but now with no culmination whatsoever (yeah, there is a culmination. A tragic lack of it -- but damn).

I like this series. It's not genious and there's a lot you just leave behind and jump over, but it's fun from funny papers. It's my little 24 twist-cliffhanger soap-opera.

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01:43 / 08.09.07

It now seems to me that the series is a tragedy about what happens if you spend your life pursuing a rarefied ideal rather than paying attention to what's in front of you. We shall see.

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02:11 / 08.09.07

I don't know. Seemed more like a cheap teen tragedy (I could almost sort of hear the "Dear Sister" O.C. parody). But still a tragedy. His thing with Beth wasn't what he thought it was (you're supposed to see that in the 1st issue, no?), and the thing in front of him he Truly wanted was lost. It seemed a very cheap "good things don't last/happen"/"you don't get what you want", like when you're a kid and start wondering and thinking the happy endings are crocs and that cool endings are only when the hero dies type of thing. It was kinda awkward in the sense that it happens too soon right after the reveal, without a proper feeling of "cherish ________", but just "just when it was about to" little ironic tragedy and "oh noes, our hero doesn't wins". Nothing really more deep than just "oh sad".

I thought it was a bad end for the 2nd most interesting character in the series (Hero the 1st IMO) that I wanted to hear a lot more from (and not feel so much her death was about what it meant to Yorick, his story and condition).

And I'm thinking now that even if the reveal was nice in a way that re-painted the entire series, I'm not sure they had any romantic connection at all. But I accepted easily on the basis that they had a huge and very strong connection -- but I never got anything from them in the lines of a romantic or sexual link. 355 with Dr Mann made much more sense in my head.

03:32 / 08.09.07

It now seems to me that the series is a tragedy about what happens if you spend your life pursuing a rarefied ideal rather than paying attention to what's in front of you.

Well, things might have been easier for Yorrick if he'd just settled down with the monkey, I suppose.

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05:49 / 08.09.07

I know you probably haven't read what happened in the issue, so I suggest -- for your own good in case someone stops by thinking you've read it -- to edit and rephrase that sentence to "Ampersand", Gramma. 'Cause it can be read in a worse-than-Klan manner, considering the context of who was being discussed earlier (and who the sentence you quote was referring to).

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17:46 / 08.09.07

24 hours ago I hadn't read a single issue of Y.

I'd picked up bits of conversations about this current issue, and decided to have a look, because I loves me some tragedy.

The bits I'd glanced at were enough to convince me that it was Beth that bit the bullet at the end of this one, so that was a bit...

Yeah.

I feel all tired and used up.

That was lot too take in in two sessions, I may be back with proper thoughts later.

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15:16 / 17.09.07

The only drawback for me is that I've never really liked the Israeli women as baddies. They don't interest me and I'm half expecting a situation like the end of Preacher where Natalya goes around killing all of them while Y talks to Alter.

It's been a few years since I read them, so what was the reason Alter gave for stopping chasing Yorrick halfway through the series, only to go back to Israel and then decide to start chasing him again?

I think my favourite issues were the ones that concentrated on the story of one character, whether it was Hero, Alter, Beth, 355 or Dr Mann.

So, who else is going to die do you think? Hero has got to be a strong possiblity, for being evil and stuff at the start, but seeing as Dr Mann may well have a cure now, and Beth doesn't want him and 355 gone, is Yorrick going to buy the farm? After all, he could be the Vertigo Universes Mr Miracle avatar...