Dewey's Book # 1:

Y: The Last Man --- Safeword


What would be the ultimate in world disasters you can think of? A tsunami? A drastic earthquake? Aliens coming from the planet Boggart and destroying civilization as we know it? All would be horrific, but humans are pretty darn adaptable. While a large portion of the Earth's inhabitants might die, so long as there are at least a few men and women around, eventually humanity could repopulate. In Y: The Last Man, Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra takes the idea of drastic world-changing events and examine the impact of the male half of all of the species suddenly ceasing to exist. All, except for one male capuchin monkey, Ampersand, and Yorick Brown, our affable schmuck of a protagonist. When his mother, a Congresswoman in the American government realizes that her son has managed to survive, an agent of the Culper Ring, going only by 355,  a super-secret agency controlled by the government is assigned to him --- to make sure that Yorick stays alive despite the intentions of various radical groups that have sprung up in response to the crisis . Along the way the two are joined by Dr.Allison Mann, a scientist specializing in bioengineering of human clones
. Together, the trio is making their way overland from Washington, DC to San Francisco, California -- the location of Dr. Mann's laboratory-- in order to figure out why Yorick survived and billions of other males did not.

When we start back up in this edition, the trio has been travelling for a year and a half.and are heading into Colorado. Ampersand is doing poorly, so the trio splits up; 355 and the doc head with Ampersand to the nearest treatment place for Ampersand, while Yorick is left with a Culper agent friend of 355's -- agent 711. After the expected crude jokes on Yorick's part ---seriously, dude? You're insulting the friend of a woman that can kill you in a billion different ways? ---355 entrusts him with one of her guns --and 355 also gives agent 711 the journals she's been keeping while on the trip.  and they take off.  His time with 711 is lifechanging in ways that this reader was not expecting. Later in the volume we are introduced to another militia-based organization searching for control -- the so-called "Sons of Arizona."

Overall, this was a good installment. I'd give it a solid 4 stars.