Y: The last man # 49 DC comics (vertigo)

The end is near for Yorick and his growing group of followers. At this point they are in China, and Rose, Dr Mann’s Aussie GF finally wakes up after her shish kebobing at the hands of the senior Dr Mann. Most of the issue is setting up the end. Getting all the characters into the spot they need to be. Yorick, Rose, Dr Mann, and 355 are in China. Hero, Ciba, Natalya and the babies are in NY boarding a steam liner being chased by the last desperate arms of the amazons, of course Alter is spying on them. Most of the issue is talking heads, just exchanging ideas. Things like the cloning aspect, and how Ampersand has to have babies. Pretty interesting discussion on how Yorick is going to be the basis for the new human race… Things get interesting towards the end when Rose reveals her true colour, and the good DR has another bout of illness leading to a bad situation… Morphogenic field? Hmm…

The thing that Y the last man has done to me in the last few years of reading it is simple. They made me care about the characters. I want to see Dr Mann survive, I want Yorick and Beth to get togeather. It’s all going to end soon, they reveal of what happened with the plague, and what is in store for the characters.. I am really looking forawrd to, and dreading the rest of the series.