Y: The Last Man
Set in a world where a plague has ravaged the Earth and killed anything with a Y chromosome , DC Comics’Vertigo embossment seriesY : The Last Mansees protagonistYorick Brownand his pet monkey Ampersand inexplicably survive an apocalyptic event that ca n’t be explain . But how exactly did Yorick and his furry friend take the air away from a disaster that left just three males left alive in the entire mankind ? Well , the reasoning is n’t exactly something that readers could have ever suspected considering that it ’s all thanks to monkey poo .
Written by Brian K. Vaughn and drawn by Pia Guerra , Y : The Last Manis a harrowing narrative of Yorick Brown ’s experience as one of the last remaining males on the planet . accompany by his male monkey , a laboratory fauna that circumstantially finds himself in Yorick ’s somewhat capable hands at the start of the series , both characters have inexplicably survived an event that has utterly shatter the earth ’s economy and base in the blink of an eye . With the remaining female population barely hold together after the collapse , the reason for the decimation of all men , as well as the explanation for Yorick and Ampersand ’s survival of the fittest , remain mystery story for quite some time .
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But as revealed throughoutY : The Last Man ’s sixty issue rill , Yorick and his buddy were able to wriggle out of demise ’s grip all thanks to one disgusting affair : Ampersand ’s feces . That ’s right , literal monkey poop deliver Yorick from sure decease , but when analyze sans the grossness of it all , it really is n’t as weird a Apocalypse as it seems . form to enkindle him as a helper animal for mass with severe handicap , Yorick take fear of Ampersand , meaning he had to clean up after him should he blank out how to habituate the bathroom . Coming into contact with Ampersand ’s body waste , Yorick was given resistance to the pest , the reasoning being that Ampersand is a inherited mutation of sort as he was experimented on by a big player inY : The Last Man ’s report named Dr. M.
But being articulatio cubiti deep in monkey dung is n’t the only reasonableness give as to why Yorick is still live when so many men like him are n’t . Running with the in - continuity hypothesis that an ancient swearword had caused the plague after an artifact is off from its true position in the nation of Jordan , it ’s insinuated more than once that Yorick ’s hymeneals ring , bought for his fiancé before the apocalypse , was orphic in nature , guard off this “ curse ” and keeping both him andAmpersandsafe . And although this explanation has neither been confirmed in any way nor fully regarded as the “ real ” cause forY : The Last man ’s plague , the idea is still an challenging one .
So while it ’s hard to envisage that the handling of Ampersand ’s imp dung is the big reason Yorick did n’t expire along with the eternal sleep of the world ’s male universe , it makes a lot of sense in hindsight after the initial shock of the reveal wears off . Yorick Brown ’s endurance might have ultimately been bear out of slow fate , butY : The Last Manmakes that most out of something that could have really reek up the serial if handled incorrectly .
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