So if class-assigned reading has taken its toll and a good book is all you seek, give Y: The Last Man a shot. You might also be seeing it on a big screen soon, too; New Line Cinema acquired the series rights in 2007, and the project is currently in development. Director D.J. Caruso (of Disturbia fame) is loosely attached to the project.
Y: The Last Man is a comic book series written by Brian K. Vaughan and published under the DC Comics Vertigo imprint. The series centers around the sole surviving male human after the spontaneous, simultaneous death of every male mammal on Earth. The title has received considerable acclaim from a wide array of critics.
Y: The Last Man is a comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra published by Vertigo beginning in 2002. The series is about the only man to survive the apparent simultaneous death of every male mammal (barring the same man's pet monkey) on Earth. The series was published in sixty issues by Vertigo and collected in a series of ten paperback volumes. The series' covers were primarily by J. G. Jones and Massimo Carnevale. The series received five Eisner awards.
Dr. Matsumori second revelation is that he was responsible for Ampersand's immunity to the plague . Ampersand was at one time Dr. Matsumori laboratory animal but was misdelivered to Yorick by happenstance. Dr. Matsumori believes that when he perfected the human cloning process he rendered males obsolete, after which the Earth killed all males (a theory discussed in greater detail below). Dr. Matsumori intends to kill Yorick and himself, thereby removing the last two males from the planet (or at least, the last two he knows of). Allison Mann interrupts her father and kills him.
