Anyone feeling that Lost writer Brian K. Vaughan ’s Y : The Last adult male was n’t quite science - fictiony enough will no doubt be happy with the book ’s sixtieth and final emergence , released today . Featuring at least two sci - fi staple fiber along with , you know , actually taking home in the future , the epilogue to the whole story did n’t sacrifice character for last minute blow or spectacle . And even though it resolve a few lingering interrogative , the issue still cope to provide a fitting conclusion to the democratic serial . Minor spoilers and sentiment on the final stage of Yorick ’s geological era after the jump .
For all Vaughan ’s other failings – improbably identify characters and pa - finish - heavy dialogue , anyone ? – he ’s certainly a writer who knows how to do attention - grabbing opening , and the couple of surprises he throws into the first few Page ( Flying cars ! Clones ! ) certainly count as some of the more unexpected import of the series . blithely , though , they ’re just there to provide an introduction to a future in which eighty - something year - former Yorick Brown is put away in a straightjacket , just as he was when we first satisfy him years originally .
Despite using the elder , melancholic , Brown ’s flashback as a gadget to show us what happened to the main characters of the tale – they all die , for the most part , although Beth and Hero both find love – the issue manages to avoid being a downer in part because of its upbeat terminal scene ( which you make love were coming as much as you did n’t think Vaughan would really go for it ) , and because Vaughan did n’t wuss out in his final steps . There is no magic turnaround resurrection of the male metal money , no “ it was all a dream ” headfuckery . Life continues on , different , but with the survivor attempt to rebuild their lives as best they can . Unusually for a popular comic serial publication , the end derive exactly as the creators ( Vaughan is joined here by serial co - creator , creative person Pia Guerra ) intended , quietly and surprisingly gracefully .
If – as USA Today’sPop Candy blog suggested – the serial is to be adapted into a trilogy of movies , here ’s hoping that they manage an termination as successful as this one . Now , of path , let ’s await and see what Vaughan has planned for the finale of his other foresighted - form serial , Ex Machina …
Good - bye to Y I : Brian K. Vaughan , I , goodness - bye to Y II : Brian K. Vaughan , II[Newsarama.com ]
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