Last man standing

One of the most thought-provoking and unforgettable series of recent years, Brian K Vaughan's 'Y: The Last Man' now reaches its profound, resonant and pitch-perfect conclusion. Five years after the mysterious plague that annihilated every male organism on Earth, the permanently endangered last man, Yorick Brown, will finally reach Paris and the longed-for reconciliation with his fiancee - if the various groups hunting him don't kill him first, that is. While Vaughan ends his epic with supreme grace and some utterly heart-rending moments, the finale proves that a key element of Y's success was down to Pia Guerra's captivating artwork - her characters' faces expressing the story's haunting despair as equally as Vaughan's nuanced dialogue.

Danny Graydon