Y the Last Man was basically my gateway book into indie comics. When this came out I was about 13-14 years old (There goes my age showing) and I was just getting into things like Ultimate Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men and more. And so when I picked up Y The last Man I had no clue what to expect but I was blown away.

Almost 20 years later and I'm still loving it.

Yorick is just a normal dude wanting to propose to his girlfriend over the phone but right before he can something horrible happens. Every creature with the Y chromosome dies suddenly. All but him and his pet monkey. So he must get to the love of his life but on the way he visits his mom and tries to survive Washington TV most dangerous people...REPUBLICANS!

Joking aside. There's alot of cool political intrigue. Doesn't really matter which side your views eventually fall on. It's interesting and makes you think what would a world filled with Women do different, and you start to see the changes here.

I love the setting, the characters from Yorick to 355 and so on. They're all rich with character development that matters, and in this book alone you meet so many characters in such a short time yet it works. The fights are brutal, people die, and you feel emotion already. The ending is like "Oh shit that makes sense they weren't here when it happened" and leads to something exciting next.

Anyway, all in all, this is one of my favorite comics of all time and reading it 20 years later I still love it.