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All the men died except Yorick and his monkey. They travel to Washington to find his Mum. Although he wants to go to Australia to find his fiancee she persuades him to go with Agent 355 to find some doctor who was doing advanced cloning research to find out why he and his monkey survived and if there's any way they can start breeding men from him so as to restart the human race. Along the way they tangle with a couple of Daughters of the Amazon who have become extreme male-haters intent on destroying anything they think reminds them of the patriarchy.

When they find the doctor, surprise surprise, it's the one from issue 1 who was having her cloned baby (which I presume was stillborn) and who thinks it was that cloning process that killed all the men, but on seeing Y and A now thinks it may be their fault. Before they can do anything her lab is destroyed by a small squad of Israeli troops who have come to the states, presumerably to capture or kill Yorick.

So they start trecking across the states in true hobo style to the doctors back-up lab. Unfortunately a misadventure sees them having to leap from a moving train, injuring Agent 355 and they end up in a small town where all the women were inmates of a nearby prison, let out by the remaining staff post-men death. They look after 355 and one of them starts to get friendly (not like that!) with Yorick, only for him to, for some reason, freak out when he finds out the truth about them.

Unfortunately at this point the Amazons turn up, and demand that Yorick be turned over so that the last man can be purged from the land. Their leader makes an incredibly long speech appealing to the women of the town. They're sticking by Yorick. There's a bit of a scuffle, in which Yorick's friend is killed and the leader of the Amazons, only he then finds that his sister, Hero, has also joined the Amazon's post the big death.

He holds a gun to her head and they argue, some weird thing about how she's smarter than him because she knows what the phrase 'crossing the Rubicon' means but he doesn't, despite the fact that he uses the phrase in it's proper sense, so ergo the Amazons are right and he isn't? I don't know. Anyway, he doesn't kill her and instead the women of the town lock them in the prison, saying they'll let them out when they think they've reformed. Yorick, the doctor and a recovered Agent 355 head on, but it turns out that Hero has her brothers escapology skills as she vomits up a lock-pick in her cell.

Else where the Israeli women are stealing a helicopter. And in space the crew of the last shuttle mission pre-big Death have run out of supplies and decide to head home, including among their number two men.

That's all that's happened so far. I'm interested to see where this is going, but it's lacking a certain little sparkle.

Y - The Last Man