Y: The Last Man

Written by Brian K. Vaughan (Lost, EX MACHINA), this is the saga of Yorick Brown - the only human survivor of a planet-wide plague that instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his pet monkey, Yorick searches for his lost love...and the answer to why he's the last man on earth. Synopsis A crazed woman tries to get a female police officer to help two dying boys. The officer refuses and puts a gun to her head. She explains that all the men are dead. 29 Minutes Earlier: Yorick Brown hangs upside down in a straight jacket in his New York apartment while talking to his girlfriend Beth. The two are separated while she enjoys time in Australia. He rambles about Elvis until Beth finally gets him to quit stalling and admit that he didn't get his latest applied-for job. He asks Beth to hold as he clicks over to pick up another call from his mother. Yorick's mother, Representative Jennifer Brown, is blown off by her son when she asks about his last interview. She hangs up the phone and gets approached by Senator looking for her vote on an abortion amendment. She refuses and things get a little testy. He is called away to meet with the president about "355." Yorick is back on the phone with Beth and she senses that he is nervous about something. He nearly tells her but gets interrupted by his pet monkey, Ampersand. He explains to her that the monkey came from a Boston organization and was supposed to help him with chores. Yorick tries to talk to Beth again but Ampersand turns on the television to a report by Christopher Emanuel from Israel. In Israel, the reporter wraps up and watch as a female Israeli soldier fires rubber bullets at Palestinians. She orders them away but Christopher, seeing an angle for a story he needs, asks her to escort the news team in exchange for an interview. She reluctantly obliges and gives her name as Tse'Elon. The conversation between Yorick and Beth continues: He admits that he is having a hard time getting out some days. She mocks his fear of the outside world. Outside in the world, a secret agent drops in on Dr. Frozan Hamad in Jordan. Agent 355 wants to help the refugee doctor escape but is rebuffed. Dr. Hamad isn't afraid of sticking up for her ideals but Agent 355 explains that an amulet is what enemies are after. The doctor explains that the amulet around her neck is a worthless story, one that claims that if the amulet were to leave the country then bad things would happen. She is soon shot down and Agent 355 kills the attackers. She takes the amulet and flees. Yorick begins rambling about how much he misses Beth. She stops him to tell him something. In a Boston hospital, genetics scientist Dr. Mann asks for help in having a baby delivered. The doctor she sees first is a student from a class she had taught. He is shocked to learn that the baby is a clone. He is ethically opposed to helping deliver a clone but morally opposed to letting a baby die. Elsewhere in Boston, Hero Brown, Yorick's sister, tries to get it on in an ambulance with her new firefighter boyfriend. He gets called out, however, and they promise to get together later. Back on the phone, Yorick stops Beth from telling him whatever it was going to be and admits that he may have bought a little something for her. He bought a magic ring and proposes to her over the phone. At that moment, his mother's assistant Darin dies, as does Christopher Emanuel and his news crew in Israel, Agent 355's male pilot in Jordan, Hero's boyfriend, and every male mammal on the Earth. Except Yorick - who awaits Beth's answer - and Ampersand.

When a mysterious plague kills all male life on the planet, what do women do with the billions of corpses? Yorick Brown discovers the horrific answer as he travels to Washington in search of his Congresswoman mother. And which unexpected female has just been named President of the United States? Synopsis Two months later, Yorick walks outside in a gas mask and cloak to hide that he is a man. He has Ampersand in a carrier. A garbage truck careens out of control and Yorick barely avoids getting hit. A woman hops out and apologizes and turns to assessing the damage done. She sees that her cargo has fallen out; Yorick is surprised to see that she is hauling dead men. She explains that she hauls the bodies in exchange for cans of food. Seeing the carrier, she stoops down and opens the door expecting to see a dog. Ampesand jumps out and immediately rips the mask off Yorick's face. In Virginia, Agent 355 busts down the door of a house in which Margaret Valentine sleeps. Agent 355 informs the woman, the current Secretary of Agriculture, that her title has been updated to the President of the United States. Margaret can't believe it but Agent 355 assures her that it is so. Yorick is looked up and down (and his nethers verified) before the girl handcuffs him to the truck. She intends to sell him after she finishes loading the rest of the spilled bodies. Unfortunately for her, Yorick knows how to escape from that brand of handcuffs. He makes his way to the White House to find his mom. Inside, Jennifer Brown sends home a Secret Service agent and thinks she is settling in for a quiet night. However, Yorick surprises her from behind and she flips him over before realizing who he is. The two play catch-up and Yorick explains his theory that he was saved by a magic ring he had bought. He then tells his mother that he is going to Australia to find out what Beth’s answer is to his proposal. Mrs. Brown puts that plan on hold and tells him about Dr. Alison Mann, a woman that may be able to work on a clone to get the population restarted. Just then, gunfire takes out a window.

Trapped inside an impenetrable bunker, Yorick Brown struggles to rescue his Congresswoman mother from a murderous posse. Meanwhile, Culper Ring operative Agent 355 risks her life to protect the first female President of the U.S., and the news that a lone male has survived begins to leak out... Agent 355 is on the road with the new President. In washington, the wives of the dead Republican Congressmen are laying siege to the whitehouse to forcably take thier husbands seats. The Israelis find out about Yorricks existance. Synopsis Miles outside Washington D.C., Agent 355 and new President of the United States Margaret Valentine begin walking due to the unresolved traffic snarl that occurred when the men died. At the White House, Representative Brown looks out the window and sees some of the wives of dead Congressmen. She explains to Yorick that the women want their husbands' seats and plan on holding the White House hostage. She leads him down to a fallout shelter and locks him in. Senator Cavanaugh finds Representative Brown and the two head out to start a dialogue with the angry women. Yorick immediately begins devising a way out of the bunker. Outside, Representative Brown approaches the women and sees that they have taken a guard hostage. The women demand their husbands' seats and Rep. Brown denies them since they still live in a democracy. Ms. Stahl makes her case but is cut short when the woman holding the guard prisoner slips and shoots the guard in the head. Another guard reacts and kills the woman. This sets Ms. Stahl off and she shoots back at the guard. The fight ends when Agent 355 rolls up with the new president in a garbage truck. A political discussion ensues but gets interrupted when Yorick appears. (He had used a fire to override the bunker's locks.) President Valentine takes Yorick and his mother, as well as Agent 355, into the Oval Office and decides that Yorick cannot stay in one place, as it would be too risky. She okays the move to have him find Dr. Mann and sends Agent 355 with him just in case he tries to head off to Australia to find Beth. In Israel, Tse'Elon (new Chief of the General Staff) receives a phone call from the United States. A person on the other end reveals that a man named Yorick Brown lives.

In this emotional issue, Yorick joins hundreds of women at a famous monument to pay tribute to all of the men who died in the Plague. But when a pack of violent female extremists interrupts this memorial service, the last man on Earth may end up joining his fallen brothers... Agent 355 is given the mission to protect Yorrick on their Journey to see a bio-engineer, whom we met in the first issue. We meet the Amazons, a group of militant women who want to wipe out all remnants of their "male oppressors," which includes the last man himself. Yorrick's sister Hero returns. Synopsis Currently: Yorick gets manhandled by a gang of women. An hour ago: Yorick and Agent 355 walk the streets of Washington D.C. on their way to Boston. Yorick senses Agent 355's anger at being his bodyguard and the two have a quick heart-to-heart. They determine that they need to find a motorcycle to wend their way through the broken down cars when Yorick hears singing. Agent 355 points him to the Washington Memorial. He distracts Agent 355 with Ampersand and sneaks off to the memorial to "pay his respects." Yorick meets Rose and the two mourn the passing of so many great bands. Amazons show up and begin defacing the monument. Yorick stands up for men and reveals himself. The Amazons begin beating him. He fights back but is easily overcome. Agent 355 steps in (after having watched for the last ten minutes) and liberates Yorick. The Amazons flee and leave motorcycles and Yorick claims that it was all part of his plan. One of the lingering Amazons overhears that the duo is headed to Boston. This Amazon woman goes to her leader and confesses her failure. The leader, Victoria, forms a hunting party and asks for someone familiar with the Boston area. Yorick's sister Hero steps forward.

Yorick and Agent 355's search for the one woman who may be able to save the human race comes to a close, but with a less-than-happy ending. Elsewhere, one of Yorick's closest friends takes a horrific first step towards becoming the last man on earth's greatest enemy. Agent 355 and Yorrick find Dr. Allison Mann in her lab. The Amazons show they will kill to find Yorrick. We find out what has become of Yorricks sister Hero. The Isrealis also find Dr. Manns lab. Synopsis Yorick wakes from a dream in which he had been in Australia and Beth dies before his eyes. He shakes himself and sees Agent 355 knitting. She's glad he is awake and they get ready to continue looking for Dr. Mann. Yorick wonders how Hero is doing, as they have been unable to find any trace of her. Elsewhere, Hero emerges from some bushes with a struggling girl in tow. The girl argues with Victoria and refuses to say where she got her motorcycle - a motorcycle that used to belong to the Daughters of the Amazon. Victoria orders Hero to kill the girl. The girl finally gives up some information and Hero is slow to execute the girl. Victoria questions Hero's loyalty. Hero shoots the girl in the head. The gang continues its pursuit. Yorick and Agent 355 find Dr. Mann's office and break in. Agent 355 finds her and introduces herself and explains how the government needs her cloning knowledge. Dr. Mann feels guilty, however, and refuses since her last time supposedly killed all the men on Earth. Yorick introduces himself and Dr. Mann changes her mind. She pulls out a needle to get some blood samples but Ampersand freaks. Being the possible last male monkey on Earth, the three humans chase after him for over four hours. Tse'Elon and Sadie, Israeli soldiers, enter Dr. Mann's lab and find it empty. The find evidence of Yorick's presence and fear for Israel's future. They burn the lab so as to halt any furthering of Dr. Mann's cloning experiments. The trio return to see the lab burn down. Dr. Mann is crushed, as all her specimens are inside. Her data is duplicated in another lab in California. The three are unsure of their next step.

A new story arc begins with Part 1 of the 5-part "Cycles." In this perfect jumping-on point for new readers, Yorick Brown and his companions embark on an important quest. Riding the rails across a radically transformed America, the last man on earth is pursued by several competing factions, including the deadly Daughters of the Amazon. Meanwhile, things get worse for Hero, Yorick's missing sister. Yorick, Dr. Mann, and Agent 355 gain passage on a train to West Coast. They are jumped and Yorick gets thrown from the train. The Daughters of the Amazon continue their search for the rumored last man. Synopsis In his gas mask, Yorick approaches a train loader and barters with her for a ride on the train. She promises him passage in exchange for a motorcycle. The trio climbs aboard and discovers they will be sharing a cargo car with pigs. They get as comfortable as they can and delve into Dr. Mann's history to pass the time. In Boston, Hero beats a fellow Amazon for looking at her wrong. Victoria takes Hero off to the side and tries to calm her, as Hero is still shaken up about killing the girl that had their motorcycle. Hero gets an extra ration and confesses her love for Victoria. Aboard the train, the group begins to settle in for the night. Two rough women drop in, however, and demand a toll. A skirmish begins and they discover Yorick. Yorick tries to fight but gets thrown from the train. Agent 355 unleashes and subdues the women. Dr. Mann is too scared to jump from the train to search for Yorick so Agent 355 tosses her from the train before jumping out herself. Back in Boston, some Amazons approach Victoria with news. Becca has found a woman who knows where men are: space. Victoria dismisses the woman as raving. Joanne has gathered news about a person on a motorcycle with a gas mask and a little monkey. Hero hears this and immediately wonders if her brother could be the man they pursue. In Ohio, a woman stumbles upon Ampersand while out for water. Then she finds Yorick.

Yorick Brown arrives in the seemingly utopian town of Marrisville, Ohio. But what terrible secret are its residents hiding and how far will they go to protect it? Meanwhile, the trail gets hotter for the last man's bloodthirsty pursuers, and the situation grows more dire for Yorick's friends. Yorick awakens to find that he is being cared for by a girl named Sonia in the town of Marrisville, Ohio, a place with a secret or two. Dr. Mann learns Agent 355 has a massive head wound. The Daughters of the Amazon get closer to finding their man. Synopsis Dr. Mann shakes herself from the fall from the train and marvels how her glasses weren't ever scratched. She finds Agent 355 in a far worse condition. Her head has been banged pretty badly on a rock. Agent 355 asks Dr. Mann to use her gun to protect the two. In a room, Yorick wakes up to find himself naked, albeit covered, in a girl's bed. The girl is Sonia and they hit it off right away. Back in Boston, the Daughters of the Amazon find a woman riding one of their stolen motorcycles. Hero shoots her in the leg (on accident) and they find out what happened to the "woman" with the gas mask: she boarded a train to go to California. Hero wants to ask about the rumor about the monkey but Victoria tells her to drop it. The Amazons head west. Yorick attempts to leave Sonia's house in Marrisville but is confronted by the entire town of women. The leader, Lydia, informs Yorick that they all have experience living without men; that's why their town has electricity. Dr. Mann finds the group and informs Yorick that Agent 355 is hurt. Sonia proposes a stretcher, though some ladies in the group are not pleased to hear a government agent is near. Near the train yard in Boston, Hero enters a tent of the two women who had jumped Yorick on the train. She stabs one in the hand with an arrow and pulls a gun on the other. The two tell Hero that Yorick, a man, does exist and they tossed him off the train somewhere in Ohio. In Marrisville, Tess and Nina express their fears to Lydia that the town's secret is going to be discovered with a government agent around.

In the mysterious town of Marrisville, the last man on Earth finally finds true romance. Unfortunately for Yorick, it's not with his beloved girlfriend, who's still trapped on the other side of the planet! Meanwhile, Agent 355 reveals a shocking secret... Dr. Mann treats the unconcious Agent 355 and hears a major confession. Yorrick has a very nice and long conversation with Sonia from town and he finds out their big "secret." The Amazons arrive. Synopsis Hero tells Victoria that the man they are looking for is her brother. Her fanaticism for the hunt cools until Victoria punches her in the face. Victoria spouts her anti-men rhetoric and brings Hero back around to seeing Yorick as nothing but a poisonous man. In Marrisville, Dr. Mann announces that Agent 355 will be okay. Yorick is relieved and decides to clear his mind by accompanying Sonia out to gather some firewood in anticipation of the cold night. Before they leave, Tess takes Sonia to the side and warns her not to disclose their secret to Yorick. Yorick and Sonia get to the lumber pile and continue to find things similar between the two of them. Yorick gets close to the subject of the town's secret and Sonia quickly changes the subject. Things get a little heavy and Yorick ends up kissing Sonia. She feels incredibly guilty. She feels he is too good for her and admits that she, as well as the rest of the town, are ex-convicts. While the two are gone, Agent 355 talks in her sleep. She unknowingly admits to Dr. Mann in wanting Yorick. Yorick storms back into town and outs the women of Marrisville. The admit to being ex-cons. Then Hero walks in and demands Yorick go with her.

In the penultimate chapter of this heartland horror story, the last man on Earth finally uncovers his hosts' dark secret. And when Yorick has an unexpected reunion with someone from his past, blood is spilled. Will this be the fall of man?

"Cycles" reaches its explosive conclusion with a sibling's madness, a firefight with a stolen helicopter, and a mysterious Russian who bears urgent news. All this, plus a truly startling development from Earth's orbit. Because of Hero killing Yorricks friend in issue #9, he has a gun to her head. They exchange words, and Yorrick can't pull the trigger on his own sister. So he gives the gun to the women of Marrisville and lets them decide what to do with the Amazons. Yorrick and the now awakened 355 have a heart to heart, while she gives him a haircut. The big reveal, is that we find out where there are other men.

While riding another train, our travelers come across a Russian lady trying to reach Kansas where she believes her countries only living cosmonaut will land. He has been trapped in a space station with two American astronauts, one female and another male. Meanwhile the astronauts plan their decent, and their eventual landing, including talking about precautions against the plague that wiped out all the other men, and their biggest problem, the aging fuel they have to use to land. The now all female Israeli army is on what they consider a "wild goose chase" and are loosing patience with the person supplying information about Yorrick. In a fit of anger the leader "Alter" demands the identity of the informant.

Our story opens with Yorricks Mother talking on the radio to Alter, the leader of the Israeli Army. We find out that she was good friends with Alters commanding officer when he was alive. That she discovered bad things about the "Culpepper Ring " ( of which Agent 355 is a part Of ) and she thinks her son has been kidnapped. Alter reveals her agenda for searching for Yorrick, she actually does want to kidnap Yorrick, so Israel will have the only living male, to continue their nation. Natalya reveals the reason why the astronauts are landing in Kansas and not Russia as planned, Apparently not all of the nuclear power plants were shut down and some had melt downs, making the landing spot too irradiated to be safe. In space the two male astronauts get into a fight over a suspected sabotageing of one of their suits.

The story opens with the astronauts releasing their ship from the space-station it was attached to, so they could begin their descent. Our three heroes, along with the Russian Natalya, find the secret military base that the astronauts are supposed to land near, and they begin to prepare for their arrival, and possible quarantine of the males. Alter the leader of the Israeli army makes her play to kidnap Yorrick, a firefight ensues, two of the Israeli's are killed yet Alter gets away with Yorrick. Agent 355 uses one of the dead soldiers radios to tell Alter that if she returns Yorrick, 355 will trade the astronauts for him.

The book opens with Alter not believing Agent 355 about there being two male astronauts about to land near them. That is until 355 confesses her love for Yorrick. Interested yet still suspicious, Alter orders her copter to land, and she makes plans with Agent 355 for the exchange. This does not sit well with Natalya who feels Agent 355 has no right to barter the life of a Russian cosmonaut, 355 tells her she made all of her story up in order to get the Israelis to return, and they begin to prepare for the upcoming battle. Back at the helicopter, Yorrick tries to convince the lady soldiers that Agent 355 was making up her story about the cosmonauts, which only makes Alter think that there are two men who are going to fall out of the sky. She sends two of her soldiers to follow the Americans, while she prepares to blow the spaceship out of the sky. When that goes wrong, Alter orders her soldiers to kill the Americans, but 355 had set Natalya up as a sniper and after a few shots her soldiers give up. With the help of her second in command, Alter is also captured. Unfortunately it may be for nothing, when they do arrive at the space capsule they find it on fire with all three astronauts inside.

Alter tries to destroy the spacecraft but she's stopped by Yorick and Sadie. Nevertheless, the vehicle explodes with only one survivor, Ciba. Later is revealed that she is pregnant leaving a little light of hope.

New storyline.What might art and entertainment be in a world without men? The performers of the Fish & Bicycle Traveling Theater Company and a monkey with a knife wound may hold the answer. In This issue we meet a theater troupe, who travel the country to give the women entertainment. They are practicing a version of The Pirates Of Penzance when a woman from a near by town comes up to them and asks if they could preform some continuations of the soap operas they used to watch. In the middle of the night a little girl who is traveling with the troupe hears a noise that sounded like a monster. While standing guard the women begin chatting about reasons the men may have died, when all of a sudden, they hear the noise also. After looking around they find a hurt Ampersand, and they take him back to their tent to patch him up. When they do they discover he is male. Thinking it is a sign they decide to write a play about the last man on earth. As the chapter comes to an end we see what looks to be a ninja spying on the troupe.

The book opens with The Theater troupe from the last issue rehearsing their play about the last man on Earth. After rehearsal a couple of the actresses are taking Ampersand for a walk when the young woman who asked them to perform soap operas comes up to them. She is not happy with their new subject, and after being blown off , leaves in a huff. Ampersand begins to make noises and we see that the ninja is still following them. During the play that night the ninja begins talking to her employer, we find out that she is following Ampersand. She is told to only use violence if she can keep the number of casualties down. Seeing that all of the actresses but the two watching Ampersand have left the ninja drops down ready to make her kill. A fight distracts her followed by a gunshot. She decides now isn't the time and leaves. The gunshot came from a disguised Agent 355 and Yorrick. They came to find Yorrick, yet the actresses are reluctant to give him up until Agent 355 tells them that Ampersand is actually an expirimental Hermaphrodite.

Part 1 of the new 3-part story " Safeword ," featuring the debut of new cover artist Aron Wiesenfeld . The last man on earth and his companions travel to Colorado, hoping to find medical attention for ailing pet monkey Ampersand . After an explosive encounter with a posse of female marshals, the group takes shelter with a retired agent of the mysterious Culper Ring. Will this alluring woman become Yorick 's most valuable ally...or his greatest enemy?

The book opens with Yorrick having a dream that he is Dorothy, Agent 355 is the Scarecrow, and Dr. Mann is the Tin Man from Wizard of Oz. Soon however it returns to where we left off. Yorrick is trussed up, while Agent 711 is dressed in Dominatrix gear. She imediately calls him gay, yet not in such a polite fashion. He of course denies it but after a few jokes, she gets fed up and beats him. Forcing a confession of something that happened to him when he was a little kid. After that she asks about his first Heterosexual experience. When he is reluctant to tell her she drugs him and he becomes very forthcoming. She doesn't buy it, and gives him a viagra. He gets angry and begins to joke and insult her. She gets mad and presses her Psycological advantage until he breaks down and says, " I want You"

The sudden admission of desire from Yorrick takes Agent 711 by surprise, she climbs off of him leaving him bewildered. She tells him it isn't what he really wants, she tells him she needs him to know there are things he can't control and takes her to her hot tub. forcing the drugged Yorrick into the water she brings up that she had read 355's journal and brings up each time Yorrick revealed himself. Every time he denied it, or tried to rationalise it she would dunk him, After a few times she gets him to admit that he did want to commit suicide, but when he had the chance he couldn't pull the trigger. With a quick "Goodbye Yorrick Agent 711 pushes his head under water, and he at first accepts it. After a quick vision though he realises he does not in fact want to die, and forces himself loose of her grip. He runs out but stops before he leaves and she tells him it was all planned as a suicide prevention. That it was her idea and hers alone, and 355 had no idea about it. The next day Dr. Mann 355 and a healed Ampersand comes back and the trio head off. The book closes when a group of women dressed in Burkas, come into 711's home, they ask about an amulet 355 is carrying, and when it looks like 711 is about to draw a gun on them they open fire.

This issue opens with our three heroes walking through a desert road. They come across some dogs chewing what looks to be human bones. They come across a road kill yet to be buried, when a young woman comes out from nowhere brandishing a gun yelling at them to get away from the bodies. 355 quickly disarms the girl but the young lady says she was trying to save their lives not kill them. After recognizing that Yorrick is a dude, she invites them too her place, so they can fill their canteens and tell the story. While there, we find out a militia has set oup road blocks, and are not very patient with outsiders. During an argument about what to do, Dr. Mann acidently lets slip that she had created a cloned daughter, not a son as she has been telling the other two. She storms out in a hufff, rather than talk about it. Later that night Agent 355 comes into Yorricks room. She can not find Dr. Mann on the premises. The book closes as we see Dr. Mann has decided to confront the militia to let the trio pass.

Dr. Mann has decided to go out and make a deal with the Arizona militia, a bunch of women wanting to carry on in the posts of their husbands brothers and fathers. She asks them if her and her friends could have passage in return for medical assistance for two girls shot in a recent firefight. This offer offends the leader of the group who was a nurse, and she hits Dr. Mann in the face with her gun. When Dr. Mann doesn't go down, she makes it a lesson to her daughter to keep hitting until they do. Back at the gas station, Agent 355 has an idea of where Dr. Mann went off to, and she decides to go after her. Before she leaves she hands Yorrick a gun, in spite of his protests. Agent 355 leaves and Yorrick and the mechanic "PJ", start talking she says she wants to have kids, Yorrick gets wide eyed but she tells him not with him, and thinks someone somewhere will figure how to do it. Back at the Arizona Militias campground Dr. Mann is getting the hell beat out of her. Apparently the militia is now being run by a bunch of conspiracy theorists who have decided that Dr. Mann works for the government, and is beginning phase two of wiping out all life on the planet. The leader sends her daughter out to check on P.J. , in the meantime, Agent 355 sneaks into the tent Dr. Mann is being held in and kills the woman beating her. While Agent 355 is untying her Dr. Mann says more about her clone, and apologies, they are about to leave when the leader comes in and yells for her troops. Agent 355 puts the gun to her head, but instead of shhoting she knocks her out. As two of the soldiers come in Agent 355 cuts ones eye out, and knocks out the other. She turns to see The leader holding a knife to Dr. Mann, threatening to slit her throat if Agent 355 doesn't stand down. Back at the garage, Yorrick and P.J. are sharing some beers.When the wild dogs outside begin to bark. P.J. grabs her gun and runs out to check what it is, telling Yorrick to stay put. He pulls out the gun given to him by 355, and hides in the garage when he hears a gun shot.

The book begins with P.J's point of view when the gunshot occurred at the end of last issue. She runs out to see why the dogs are barking, she sees one of the Arizona militia standing there with a rifle, and yells at her to get off her property. The girl turns and accidentaly shoots P.J., showing no remorse the girl yells at the dying P.J. that was your fault, it's all on you. In the garage Yorrick was watching through a window. The gunshot makes Amperand squeal, and it attracts the girls attention. goes to the garage to see what made the noise and ends up getting the drop on Yorrick. Back at the militia camp, we find out they have been toruring Agent 355 and Dr. Mann. When they are done, they drag them out to a firing squad, but before they get a chance to kill them Agent 355 comes up with an idea for escape. In the garage, Yorrick turns to the girl holding a gun on him. He asks why she shot P.J., when she denied any blame, he raises the gun toward her they both fire. When Agent 355 and Dr. Mann return, he decides not too tell them about his part in the girls death. They decide to leave. The book closes, at the Oldenbrook facility, where the female astronaught was saved. it is discovered she had a baby with one of the astronaughts. The child was born and HE is doing fine.

For some reason it seems Yorrick is out walking about on his own. He comes across a church inside is a flight attendant named "Beth", which just so happens to be the name of his girlfriend in Australia. The two of them open up to each other and give a sort of confession. Yorrick tells about how he had killed a girl in Arizona, and Beth tells how she was a flight attendant, and was in the air at the time. Her plane was going down and she tried to land, it crashed and killed all but three others. Out of guilt she brought the corpses to the church cemetary and buried them, since then she has decided to stay and become the caretaker. After their confessions they Yorrick finally gives in and for once enjoys a perk of being the worlds last man.

After consummating their relationship, Beth and Yorrick are talking in the pupit of the church, when an arrow flies in through a window. The Amazons have arrived. Thankfully only three of them. They threaten to burn down the church but Beth talks them out of it. Then the leader of the little tribe threatens to kill Beth if she does not renounce God. Yorrick shows up, putting on a show as if he were God, scaring away the Amazons. When it is all over, Beth decides to stay at the church, telling Yorrick to find "his" Beth in the Australian outback. The book closes on Beth in Australia, where her and her friend are kidnapped by Aboriginies.

The book opens with a very young little Hero leading her younger brother Yorrick through a field to a statue with a hood over it's head. She starts talking to it, making as if the statue is yelling at Yorrick which makes him cry. Cut to, she's fifteen at a college party and has he first sexual encounter Cut to : At the dinner table Hero discussing her plans to be a paramedic. Cut to : Hero's reaction to the plague Cut to: Her first meeting with Amazons, and meeting the leader Victoria for the first time. Cut to: Hero in the womens prison at Marrisville Cut to : She meets her mother the congresswoman, who sends her out to find Yorrick. cut to The Oldenbrook facility. Hero sees the male baby for the first time and we find out the programming Victoria had laid on her hasn't gone away completely. As she contemplates killing the child.

Part 1 of the 5-part "Ring of Truth." At long last, Yorick, 355 and Dr. Mann make their way to San Francisco to find out what caused the plague. But Yorick's unbalanced sister Hero and the mysterious Setauket Ring have also made their way west - and they all have their sights set on the last man on Earth! The book opens and we find out that Yorrick did buy the engagement ring he has been wearing around his neck, at a magic shop. In present time Agent 355 is allowing him to have some fun running up and down the court at a basketball game, in front of a large crowd of women, dressed as a team mascot. We see Hero looking for Agent 355 and her brother at a massage parlor.The cashier is reluctant to give any information until Hero pulls a gun. After she gets the information Heroleaves and we see that the ninja is now following her. While walking home Yorrick and Agent 355are confronted by the Burqa wearing women who shot Agent 711 a few issues ago.. They are after something called the amulet of Helene, that 355 grabbed in issue one.. A fight breaks out during which Yorricks ring is torn from around his neck. Our two heroes make their escape on a passing trolly car and we find out the ladies in question are members of a splinter group from the Culpepper ring that 355 belongs to. Back at Allison Manns lab, 355 tells her they have to leave, but Dr. Mann protests saying she is days away from finding out why Ampersand and Yorrick survived the plague. Yorrick says " my ring" the women turn to look at him, and he begins to bleed out.

"Ring of Truth" Part 2 of 5. As Yorick fights for his life, Dr. Mann and Agent 355 attempt to figure out why he survived the plague and whether the mystical Amulet of Helene played any role. The book opens in a fever dream with Yorrick and Beth running through a spacestation, with an order to kill as many "men" as possible. All the while Earth is on fire. Dr. Mann and Agent 355 are watching over a very sick Yorrick, and Dr. Mann tells 355 that she has to get Yorrick his ring back. Not something 355 wants to do considering that it is now in the hands of three very skilled assassins. We next find out that Hero is now in San Fransisco looking for her brother, she is still being haunted by the voice of "queen" Victoria leader of the Amazons. So much so that the ninja following her thinks she is talking on a radio. Agent 355 crashes in on the Sektaut ring, ironically enough while they are discussing how to find her. We find out the importance of the amulete of Helene. They agree to meet later at a local ballfield for an exchange. At the hospital Dr. Mann is treating an awake but woozy Yorrick, when she hears a noise that draws her away from her work. At the ballfield, 355 hands over the amulet, and the Sekt says they will only give her the ring if she joins them. Fed up Agent 355 walks away, but before she gets into the dug out she is pistol whipped. Hero has arrived, and is pointing a gun straight at her head.

Part 3 of the 5-part "Ring of Truth." With Yorick near death and Dr. Mann frantically trying to save him, Agent 355 meets with the fearsome Setauket Ring and Yorick's sister Hero in a desperate attempt to get Yorick's engagement ring back. However, while 355's away, Mann makes a startling discovery about Yorick... The story opens with Dr. Mann checking on a noise she heard in the last issue, only to have Ampersand jump onto her head. Although we do see that the ninja is right out side of the labs window. Back at the baseball field where Agent 355 was meeting with the Setauket ring, Hero has just pistol whipped Agent 355, and accuses her of kidnapping her brother. Her use of the word brother of course surprises the members of the Setauket. Back at the lab, Yorrick has woken up again and he and Dr. Mann have a heart to heart about recording what has gone on with them the past two years. At the ballfield Agent 355 tries to calm Hero down, but she is not willing to accept 355's word, considering she followed a trail of corpses to find her. Including 711's corpse. This news upsets 355 and she attacks the Setaukets. And once again back at the lab, Dr. Mann finally figures out why both Yorrick and Ampersand survived.

Part 4 of the 5-part "Ring of Truth." It's a dysfunctional family reunion when Yorick is reunited with his sister Hero. Will they continue their deadly rivalry, or has the ex-Amazon seen the error of her vicious ways? Plus, a mysterious ninja, a monkey and a shocking revelation that'll turn the series on its ear! Okay so Yorrick and Dr. Mann are talking about what saved Yorricks life, it takes a couple of pages here because of Yorrick having to keep asking Dr. Mann to dumb down her explanation. She does and the explanation does not make Yorrick happy. Not too put to fine a point on all of this, but it was not Yorrick or anything he did that kept the two alive. It was Ampersand. When Hero and 355 return Yorricks frustration boils over and he lashes out at Hero, hitting her, when he accidently hits Agent 355 he apologises and leaves. 355 follows him and explains that Hero is a changed woman and he should trust her. Back in the lab Dr. Mann has given Hero A sedatve so she could fix her wounds, While under, Hero has a dream of "Queen" Victoria of the Amazons, and finally not wanting to hear anymore, kills her. Back in the lab, the ninja outside the window sees that Dr. Mann is all aone with Ampersand so she goes in and takes the one creature that could cure the plague.

The 5-part "Ring of Truth" reaches its shocking conclusion! Just when Dr. Mann finally discovers the answer to how Yorick and Ampersand survived the mysterious plague, an unforeseen adversary swoops in and steals a major key to the possible cure. But could the thief be working for someone close to the trio? The book opens with Agent 355 preparing to go after the ninja using the same tracking device Hero was using to follow Ampersand. Before she could leave they find out Yorrick has already gone out. 355 catches up to him, but he refuses to go back to the lab. After hearing Ampersands screaming 355 and Yorrick meet the ninja on the San Fransisco Bridge, where a fight breaks out between 355 and the ninja. Unfortunately for our hero, things do not go so well, but Hero shows up in the nick of time with a rather large gun and saves the day. Later back at the lab, and after a nights rest, Dr. Mann has decided to go looking for Ampersand, and Hero is going to go home, but first stop off in Kansas to deliver some of Ampersands feces, to the geneticists. The next day our three heroes are on the road again, or at least at the docks, where they find out the ninja girl had charted a boat to the same city Dr. Manns family is from.

Finally leaving the United States, Yorick and his companions begin an important quest for a missing friend. Yorick joins a ragtag band of female sailors on a thrilling voyage overseas, but what dangerous new threat lurks deep beneath the Pacific? Our three heroes booked passage on a ship bound for Japan. Well two of the heroes, Yorrick was hidden in a crate so he could escape and join them later, but the women running the boat laid the crate on it's top. The only part that Yorrick had rigged. So 355 is trying to bust him out when a woman comes in to get her out of the cargo hold. 355 starts to fight her but a very big woman grabs onto her and throws her into the crate revealing Yorrick. 355 and Yorrick are brought to the captain who decides Yorrick should stay in her cabin to be safe. In the meantime, The ship apparantly has a spy, who has killed the radio girl, and sent a signal to an Australian submarine.

Part 2 of the 4-part "Girl on Girl." The swashbuckling adventure continues on board an old cruise ship rechristened The Whale, where the last man on Earth meets an alluring young captain. As romance blossoms in some cabins, betrayal, deceit and murder flourish below deck. Yorrick walks in on 355 and Dr. Mann making love, but before they can deal with it they hear a scream from outside. 355 and Dr. Mann go to find out what is wrong. The spy who killed the radio girl is captured. It is explained that some Australian submarines have been searching the waters to rob them of their cargo. As the women who run the ship prepare for what is coming 355 and Dr. Mann talk about "what happened" between them.

Part 3 of the 4-part "Girl on Girl." When questions of loyalty arise from the all-female crew of The Whale, Yorick must decide whether his allegiances lie with his old companions or his new mate, who happens to be captain of the potentially mutinous ship. The book opens with a brief origin story about the captain of the ship. It tells how she grew the opium in America and decided to sell it to other countries. The scene returns to the brig and we find the story is being told by the spy, to Dr. Mann. That is when one of the ships crew pulls a gun on Dr. Mann and admits it. They have also captured 355 and are about to put her into a cell also. Meanwhile in the captains quarters, the captain and Yorrick are about to "get Busy" when there is an alert. The sonar has picked up the Australian Sub. The captain leaves her quarters, but soon an escaped 355 Dr. Mann and Rose ( the spy ) come in. Before they find weapons though, the captain returns with a rather large gun herself. She has ordered depth charges dropped onto the sub, and tries to explain that her drug running is actually helping the world. When a torpedo from the sub hits the ship, 355 disarms the captain, and the ship begins to sink.

The explosive conclusion of the 4-part "Girl on Girl." The good ship Whale makes its final stand against the crew's heavily armed pursuers, and countless women meet a watery grave. Will any of Yorick's companions survive? Plus, a woman from Yorick's past makes a startling reappearance. While trying to escape the sinking ship, our now four heroes, run into a little bit of interference. Instead of fighting head to head with a force that outnumbered them, Rose shoots a fuel tank causing an explosion, and making the ship sink faster. Agent 355, Rose and Dr. Mann all find their way to a life raft, but before he gets on Yorrick releases it so he can go and find the captain. He tries to talk her into coming with them, she refuses and knocks him out. When he awakens the ship has sunk and he is in a life raft next to a surfaced submarine.

Series co-creator Pia Guerra returns for a special stand-alone issue that finally reveals the whole story behind Yorick Brown's long-lost true love, Beth Deville. As Yorick risks his life to travel halfway around the world in search of this alluring young woman, Beth must survive her own trial by fire. The book opens Beth, is tied to a tree unconsious, while a couple of aboriginies are talking about what to do with her. One is convinced she is there for a very important reason. She spits something in her face that is supposed to take her on a spiritual journey, and Beth dreams. Cut to : Beth and Yorrick talking in a library after his roommate broke up with her. Their first connection. Cut to : Her in the Australian Outback, after the plague hit, discussing a theory on the population boom. Cut to : A halloween where Yorrick has promised to never leave her. Cut to : Meeting his family for the first time, Hero warns her that Yorrick will drag her down. Cut to : A dream of the time she tells Yorrick she is going to Australia. It then gets weird as Yorrick is getting kidnapped by a giant Ampersand. Beth turns into a superhero and flies up to save him. She does, and he tells her. I'm Alive. she believes it.

The last man and his companions finally reach Australia in Part 1 of the 3-part "Paper Dolls." As he searches Sydney for his long-lost girlfriend, Yorick encounters a dangerous new adversary who threatens to jeopardize more than just this reunion. The issue opens with a reporter in Australia reporting on a rumour of a male sighting, and trying to find a confirmation. The scene changes to Yorrick arguing with the women in charge of him and the submarine he is on. Since they are docked at Australia, he wants to leave the sub and look for Beth. Agent 355agrees to give him 24 hours to look. They find the office Beth was working at, and see a message on the wall warning her to leave, when 355 and Yorrick are attacked.by drug addicts. Agent 355 quickly beats them, but once again Yorrick is revealed. While they are walking back, the reporter from the beginning of the story fires a taser at 355, she goes down, and the reporter makes Yorrick strip so she can take a picture of him.

How has the world of media changed since the onset of the mysterious man-killing plague? Yorick Brown finds out the hard way as he and his companions encounter a tenacious journalist dedicated to exposing the story of the century...by any means necessary. After being knocked out last issue 355 wakes up to find Yorrick in his underwear. They deduce that the woman who took his picture was a reporter, and figure they need to stop the rumor of a mans existence, in order to prevent a war.

The startling conclusion to the 3-part "Paper Dolls" storyline! Love is in the air as two cast members make the connection, and Yorick continues his desperate search for his fiancée Beth. But when 355 risks her life to stop a tabloid journalist from exposing Y to the world, could it put the kibosh on cupid? We open this issue to find that Dr. Mann and Rose, the new member of the team, have hit it off nicely. Nicely enough to earn this book it's mature readers label. Dr. Mann invittes Rose on their quest to find Ampersand. In the meantime, 355 is fighting with the reporter, and they go over the balcony. At the last moment 355 is able to save both of them, and the reporter gets away. Not before Yorrick lifts her travel pass though. They meet up with her at the airport and manage to find out that she knew where Beth usually hung out. After more than a few words, they get the information and decide if Yorricks picture is going to be taken, it's best that it happens in the gossip rag this reporter works for. They go off searching for Beth, but when they get to her last hang out, they find that she had a dream that Yorrick was alive, and went to Paris to find him. Back on the sub, Rose is meeting with her captain, and we find out that she is a spy the captain is trying to infiltrate our favorite trio with. The issue ends with Yorricks mother looking at the naked pictur of her son in the gossip rag. Alter, the israeli soldier, shows up and quickly shoots her

It's been months since Yorick Brown left the United States, but in this special stand-alone issue, we revisit the many women the last man has left behind ? as well as a stunning development that will no doubt send shock waves through the unmanned world! This is the story of Hero, Beth and a letter. Hero is on her way back to the lab in Kansas, but on her way she stops by the church Yorrick met a woman named Beth in. Funny thing though. Beth and Yorrick seemed to have concieved a child. Hero and Beth are talking about it, and what to do, when the church is attacked. Apparently, these nuns have heard rumours of a pregnant woman, and think it is an immaculate conception. They want to take the child, so he can grow up to be a priest, and declare it okay for women to be priests.

At last, the long-awaited origin of Agent 355, loyal protector of the Last Man on Earth! In this special stand-alone issue, the secrets of the mysterious Culper Ring and its most famous female agent are finally revealed. This issue opens in the middle or maybe even at the end of a storyline. We see Dr. Mann and Yorrick run out of some woods yelling about some cannibles. Cut to : The origin of 355 Scene 1 : Her father is a tailor, and is giving her a bit of a tailoring history lesson. Scene 2 : As a little girl, she is being told her whole family died in a car wreck. Scene 3 : A teenager at school, some kid uses the N word to her, and she beats him with a ball bat. This sparks an interest from some government agency. Scene 4 : She is being trained for the culpepper ring. And is told how every part of her is a weapon, and she should not over look biting. Scene 5 : After a training session, 355s handler passes her off to another, and says she is resigning. Scene 6 : Agent 355s old trainer is now a member of the sekautet ring, and is trying to assassinate the President. They fight, and 355 rips her throat out with her teeth. Cut back to : Agent 355 getting ready to fight some cannibles.

This special stand-alone issue explores the past, present and future of Ampersand, the long-lost pet of the last man on earth. How did this male monkey end up with Yorick Brown, and where has the animal been since he was kidnapped by a mysterious Japanese assassin? Questions, answers and of course, monkeys abound! scene 1 : Ampersand is in a lab getting injected with a "formula" one doctor tells his assistant that the monkey should be shipped to Dr. Mann Scene 2 : We find out that Ampersand accidentally got switched at customs with a helper monkey. scene 3 : Yorrick and Ampersand first meet Scene 4 : After the plague, Yorrick and Ampersand are going to a friend of Yorricks Scene 5 : The trio and Ampersand are camping, we see the ninja watching them. We find out she is working for the doctors at the beginning of the book. Scene 6 : Ampersand is dreaming. He is protecting an egg from birds on a beach. when the egg hatches it is Yorrick. Scene 6 : Ampersand is with the ninja, she is talking to him and threatening him. Ampersand escapes into Japan

The last man and his companions finally reach Japan in search of Ampersand, Yorick's long-lost pet and the key to mankind's return. They're one step closer to learning who or what killed all the other males, but how many of Yorick's friends will live to hear the answer? We join our heroes in Japan, The four main characters decide to split up. The Australian spy Rose and Dr. Mann are off to check a laborotory run by Dr. Manns mother, and 355 and Yorrick decide to go to Neo Tokyo. In a small pet shop, an old lady is standing behind the counter when a young girl walks in. She asks about the monkey that is sitting behind the lady. After the old lady tells her it would cost six million yen, the young lady draws her sword, and kills her. After checking the monkey and finding out it isn't Ampersand she makes a call to her superiors. 355 are walking down a Tokyo road having a conversation about how real relationships are built on mutual hatred, when they come to the place they were looking for, whose door looks a lot like women parts. Dr. Mann and Rose are walking down a trail discussing their relationship. When they come across The laborotory it is burning to the ground. Back in Tokyo, 355 and Yorrick thought it would be safer to enter the building through the back door, so Yorrick is picking the lock. When they enter, they here a voice,, when they turn there is another man standing there.

The epic "Kimono Dragons" story arc continues! Hot on the trail of Ampersand the monkey, Agent 355 and Yorick make a startling discovery in Tokyo, while Dr. Mann and her new girlfriend are confronted by a figure from the doctor's past. The book opens with Hero and the Beth Yorrick impregnated finally reaching the Hot suite. Back in Tokyo, 355 has drawn a gun on the man who surprised her, yet he does not seem to react to her threat. They quickly discover that he is just an android, yet while they are examinating it, a woman hits 355 in the head with a chair. The two fight until Yorrick stops the fight by threatening to break the androids neck. Dr. Mann and Rose are looking through the remains of the burned down Lab. They are able to surmise that it was caused by a burning rat, and that her mother is not in the ashes. Rose asks if she knows of somewhere else her mother might have gone. We see Dr. Mann figuring out where her mother might have gone through a pair of binoculars with a parabolic microphone. The ninja has been watching the two of them and listening to everything they say. She seems pleased that Dr. Mann may know where her mother is. Back in Tokyo with Yorrick 355 and the ex cop who is now a pimp for an android. The cop starts talking and she gives us a little back story with what has happened with her, and more important, that the Tokyo crime industry has been taken over by a Canadian pop singer by the name of Epiphany, who is now in possesion of Ampersand. They decide that the best way to get to Ampersand, is to try and trade Yorrick, but 355 has a suspicion that Yu is working for Epiphany. We meet Epiphany, she is lounging around in her lengerie, very disappointed at Ampersand for not being more fun than he is. When she finds that she has no more cocain, she tells her second to cut off Ampersands penis and sell it for the drug. Dr. Mann and Rose have reached her mothers other laborotry, it's a green hose, and as Rose is stopping to smell the roses, she gets a sword through her stomach, courtaesy of Dr. Manns mother.

As Yorick and Agent 355 risk everything to save Ampersand from a bizarre new enemy inside a Tokyo skyscraper, another member of the last man's crew comes to terms with the blood on her hands. The President and her Secretary of Defense are talking about defending the border states from the Mexicans., as they walk towards Secratary of the interior Browns office. Unfortunately when they arrive they find her dead. Shot twice. Agent 355 and You are getting ready to go get Ampersand, apparently by packing tons of weapons. After saying goodbye To 355 Yorrick talks to You and asks her to do something that not even 355 would consider doing. Dr. Mann is now holding a critically injured Rose in her armsas she is yelling at her mother. Her mother apologises stating that she thought Rose was the woman who burned down her lab. The two doctors start to take care of Rose when Her mother says that she thought she would never see Allison again, considering her need to look after Yorrick. At Epiphanys tower, all of her lobby gaurds are entranced with the fact that a male had just shown up in front of them. You had placed her android outside and it drew there attention. As 355 and You arrived at the floor Epiphany was on, they killed the two gaurds there. This starts a fight that ends with A gun to you's head, and 355 holding a gun to a little girl. Unfortunately for 355, You turns on her and gives up Yorricks whereabouts. The two Dr. MAnns are working on Rose, Allison asks her Mother how she knows about Yorrick. Apparently, the President and her have been good friends for years, and she has kept up with information. It was The elder dr. Mann who told the President to send Yorrick to Allison Mann. Moreso to keep the Monkey away from someone specific rather than anything else. Back at Epiphany Towers, Yorrick has been captured and thrown into the room with 355. He tells her it is all part of a plan, but 355 begins to have a breakdown. She is finally fed up with all her job has made her do, and holding a gun to a little girls head, knowing she could easily pull the trigger was the last straw. Yorrick tells her about the time he killed the young girl in Arizona, and they decide it is time for them to have a long talk. Back at the Mann lab. Rose has woken up and confesses that she is a spy, Allison refuses to believe her, the last page we see the ninja has arrived and is about to hit Allison with the sharp end of her sword.

The search for Ampersand, the last man's missing helper monkey, comes to an unexpected conclusion, as Yorick and his companions make a startling discovery about the unmanned world. The book opens with a heart to heart between Yorrick and 355. We find out that Yorrick has been ashamed to confess certain things to the women he cares for. That he more often than not just tells secrets to Ampersand. In the lab, The ninja, who Allisons mother calls Toyota,, has a sword at Allisons throat. She asks the elder Dr. Mann where is Ampersand. This sets Allison off, because she thought he was with Toyota. At Epiphany Towers, You is searched and let into the room with Epiphany. She offers her some heroine but You turns it down saying she only wants the monkey. When Epiphany doesn't live up to her end of the deal. Yorrick for Ampersand, You stabs the second in command with the heroine needle and takes her gun. In the room with 355 and Yorrick, we learn that 355 knew 711 was going to put Yorrick through the tests she put him through. They share a moment, that looks as if it could get intimate. Back at the lab, Allison has challenged the ninja to a sword fight. It doesn't last long. Back at the towers, Epiphany starts yelling slurs, but You has her malebot wired for sound, so all the girls hear everything. After they take car of Epiphany, You returns Ampersand to Yorrick. He and Agent 355 leave. Back at the lab. Toyota had just stabbed Allison through the shoulder pinning her to the wall. She tells Allison, that if she wants to see her mother alive and learn the truth about who started the plague, she will find Ampersand and bring him to Hong Kong, to her employer.

A stand-alone special issue featuring the art of Goran Sudzuka and revealing at last the "secret origin" of Dr. Allison Mann, loyal but cantankerous caretaker of Yorick. What event from this brilliant young scientist's past will effect the future of the entire planet? The secret Origin Of Dr. Man Scene 1 : Present Day we see Dr. Mann leaning against a door, Yorrick is yelling from the other side. Dr. Manns hands are covered with blood. Scene 2 : We see Allison Mann as a little girl. Her blanket has holes in it. Her Mother tells her a good way to get rid of the moths is to kill the males. Once the males die, so will the rest. Scene 3 : Allison still a young girl, walks in on her father and a woman who is not her mother. The woman says something to her that she takes as an insult. These two will not be getting along. Scene 4 : Allisons mom is telling her they are moving to America. She promises that while they are changing countries, that the new country will never change them. Scene 5 : Allison as a teen ager, all punked out, with a mo hawk smoking in front of Manns Chinese Theater. There she meets her first girlfriend Scene 6 : Then has her first sexual experience with her, in the front seat of a Yugo no less. Scene 7 : Her Father tells her they are moving from America. Allison doesn't want to. When her father asks if it is about a boy, Allison outs herself to him. He invites her to stay. Scene 8 : Her and her girlfriend break up. Scene 9 : She is now a professor, a student tells her that her father is close to creating the first human clone. He asks her what she thinks about the morality of such a thing. She asks him if he can keep a secret. Scene 10 : She is pregnant with her clones, yes there are twins. The assistant is giving pre natal care. They are talking about unforseen health risks. Scene 11 : Present day, Dr. Mann is blleeding profusely from between the legs.

The final and most important "secret origin" issue of the series reveals the untold story behind former Israeli Defense Forces leader. Alter Tse'elon. What drives this female soldier's hunt for the last man on Earth, and what will Alter find that could mean the end of Yorick Brown? The secret Origin Of ALTER Scene 1 : Alter has The twins in Kansas hostage she is looking for Yorrick, so she threatens to kill one if the other does not talk. Scene 2 : She is a little girl, she is holding a gun.and playing army. Her older sister comes up to her and tells her all fighting is bad and life is sacred. Scene 3 : She is sitting by a tree at a camp.She meets a boy and they talk. She likes him so she waits for him when he says he will come back after his counsellor falls asleep. He never does show up. Scene 4 : The day after she is sleeping by the tree, a counsellor finds her and says she has to go back home something has happened. Scene 5 : She is at a funeral. It's her sisters. scene 6 : She is in the army, she stops a suicide bomber from entering the base. The suicide bomber blows herself up early. Scene 7 : She is in a meeting with a superior officer, he is interviewing her for a higher rank. Scene 8 : After the plague, we find out her real reason for joining the army. Scene 9 : The twins tell her where to find Yorrick, she tells them that she is not going to hurt him. There have been battles over who gets him, she is out to save him.

Yorick Brown and Agent 355 prepare for their ultimate quest to reunite the last man with Beth, while Dr. Mann travels to China to finally find the person or people responsible for the global gendercide. Another issue that opens with a funky dream. This one has Beth warning Yorrick to stay out of Paris. Yorrick wakes up to find that Rose is the only one there. The two of them talk about the plans that were made while Rose was unconciious. In the Chinese market, 355 and Dr. Mann are talking about the recent events. 355 can tell Allison is holding something from her, when she finds out that Rose confessed to being a spy 355 runs back to their apartment. Leaving Dr. Mann at a time when she is starting to have pains again. In the United states, Hero is on a boat with Beth The Russian lady, and the two babies. Defending them against a group of Amazons who want to kill the baby boy. When 355 arrives at the apartment, she hears noises that sound like love making, Only to discover it is Rose and Yorrick egging Ampersand, and Bonny the female monkey on. The four main characters are talking on their balcony, and they bring up the cloning process. Dr Mann has figured she has to clone Yorrick at least 200 times to prevent in breeding. Rose excuses herself from the group, and goes to make a radio call. She calls the sub she was spying for and resigns. Allison overhears her, but does not believe her, and they argue. Unfortunately Rose begins to bleed between the legs again and passes out in front of Rose. Rose lowers her to the floor when 355 comes in with a gun drawn, not happy with the way things look.

In the landmark fiftieth issue of the critically acclaimed series, the person, people or thing behind the plague that killed every man except for Yorick Brown is finally revealed! And with just ten more issues left, it's the beginning of the end... The book opens with Allison as a little girl getting allergy shots from her father and his lover. The mistress begins to tell her about a greater conciousness amongst a species that is usually passed off as instinct. Neither her Father or Allison Mann believe her. 25 years later in the present day, Allison Mann is laying on the floor bleeding from her crotch, while 355 has a gun to Roses head. They are arguing when Dr. Mann says in a weak voice that her Mother is in Hong Kong. Figuring that is her mother was good enough to patch Rose together, she can also help Allison. On a submarine, Alter, the head of the Israeli army is visited by one of her subordinates. She tells Alter that the photo that she has been using to recruit women, has been faked. Alter gets mad at her and threatens to kill her. In an ambulance they are speeding toward Hong Kong trying to get Dr. Mann to help in time. When they get out, Yorrick gets out, and is quickly stung by something and falls unconcious. Soon after Rose and 355 are also hit, before she falls, 355 sees the ninja Toyota coming toward her. In a hospital. Allison wakes up to find her Mother standing over her. She learns that her mom had to remove her uterus to save her life, and then tells her the same thing happened to her fathers old assisstant. She had also tried to carry a human clone. Except unlike Dr. Mann, the assisstant died. When she hears that Allison wonders who the ninja was working for if Ming was dead. That is when her father comes out from behind the curtain. He tells her he is alive the same way and reason Yorrick is alive. He then tells her the plague is the fault of him and his offspring. He shows her that he has been cloning Dr. Mann for years.

Part 3 of the 4-part "Motherland." With the long-awaited revelation of who or what caused the plague that killed every man except for Yorick Brown, will new life be created or old ones snuffed out? Scene 1 : Fifteen Years ago. Allisons father catches Toyota trying to steal from him. After learning she has no family, he offers to have her trained so she could be his security agent, and protect him. She agrees for a million yen. Scene 2 : Present Day, Toyota has 355 and Rose chained up from the ceiling. Her and 355 have a verbal tit for tat when Rose asks for her to be killed first. Toyota does not seem to have a problem with that. SCENE 3 : Back at Dr. Manns Lab, Allison can not believe she is looking at her father, Yorrick is looking for his pen to escape the bed straps he is tied with. Scene 4 : We see that 355 has Yorricks pen, all the while Rose has been distracting Toyota, she has been trying to escape. When she does she asks Toyota to please surrender, she is tired of killing people. Toyota doesn't listen, and 355 grabs her and jumps out the window. Scene 5 : Back at the lab The elder Dr. Mann is explaining that he was the one that sabotaged Allisons experiment, and caused the plague, and that Ampersand is actually his monkey. SCENE 6 : Toyota and 355 have landed a couple levels below the window and begin to fight with Naginatas. Toyota proves to be better as she disarms 355 pretty quickly. SCENE 7 : Allisons Father explains that at the same moment his first clone drew breath, all the men in the world died. Men have been a necessary evil, once they were no longer necessary nature righted itself. He then turns on a morphine drip, knocking Allison out, and tells Yorick the two of them need to talk. SCENE 8 : 355 asks Toyota why she is doing this, Toyota responds by telling her that Allissons father is going to clone her, effectively making her immortal. 355 says she is glad, it makes her feel better about having to kill her.. Toyota charges her, 355 sidesteps and rams the pointy end of a stick into her ear. SCENE 9 : Dr. Mann pulls out a syringe and tells Yorrick that since his daughter and ex wife can continue his work, it's time for them to go.

The jaw-dropping conclusion of the four-part "Motherland" story arc. Now that the mystery behind who (or what) has caused the gendercide has been solved, one member of Yorick's crew will take her leave in the hopes of reversing the effects. But is it too late? SCENE 1 : Hero and the other ladies have made it to France. Hero says her goodbyes before she begins to look for her brother and Beth. They talk about how the Israeli army is still after them. Scene 2 : Allison Mann's father is about to kill Yorick and himself, but we find out that Allison undid her morphine drip, so she stands ready to fight her father with a scalpel in her hand. Scene 3 : Allison's mother walks into the room where Rose is hanging. She looks out the window to see both 355 and Toyota laying in pools of their own blood. 355 had been stabbed in the stomach during their fight. SCENE 4 : Allison Mann and her father get into a fight, during which Allison stabs him with the same chemical he was about to kill Yorick with. SCENE 5 : Two weeks later, 355 is waking up. Her and Dr. Mann talk about the future. SCENE 7 : Allison and Yorick say goodbye to each other. Scene 8 : In Paris, Beth is looking for Yorick.

Back in the United States, the last man on Earth was first unmasked by a supermodel forced to work as a garbage collector after the death of the patriarchy. Years later, what surprising role does this beautiful young woman still have to play in the life of Yorick Brown? Do you remember way back in issue number 2, when Yorick was handcuffed to a dump truck by a former supermodel named Waverly? Well this is a story that sort of catches up with her. It tells us how and what she has been doing for all this time. We open to find a couple of Amazons about to kill a woman who makes a living by pretending to be a man for women. Before they can do any real damage, Waverly comes up and stops them. Apparently, Waverly has taken over many of the Amazons just by offering them a job. She offers the cross dresser a job and takes her with her into the sewers. She has to go down and find the bones of an old sanitation worker. At first the new fish is afraid there might be rats, but has it explained to her that rats only live about three years, so there are no more. There she gets a radio call that says there is a stiff in the White house. At the White House it is requested of her to take care of all the funeral arrangements for Yorick's Mother. While she is looking over the corpse she sees a picture of Yorick and begins to freak. All this time she had been telling herself, she only thought she was talking to a real man. That night her and "Bob" are in bed together, she is distracted by the picture she had seen tonight. She had been doubting her sanity, and now because of the picture, she wants to give a fine send off to Yorick's Mother. At the funeral we see that it is as classy as the one given to JFK. After it is over both Bob and Waverly are walking into an alley, when they spot a herd of rats. They see it as something of a miracle, and accept the fact that now they can be more than just "bodies" as they had been before the gendercide.

In the last stand-alone special issue before the final arc of the series, the all-female Fish & Bicycle Theatre Troupe returns to explore what Hollywood would be like if it were run by women. What role will these actresses play in Yorick Brown's future? This issue is a return to the theater nuts. The ones who had Yorrick and decided to write that weird Last Man On Earth play. Well, They are into movies now. The trouble is, they are making the same violent crap men used to make. This causes dissention in the ranks and their movie troup disolves. After having their van hi jacked by a bunch of little girls, the wrter and director figure that the best way to get their vision to the masses is through comic book publishing.

Part 1 of the 5-part 'Whys and Wherefores,' the last arc leading up to the final issue of the series. Boarding the Trans-Siberian railroad for France, Agent 355 escorts Yorick Brown on the last leg of his quest to find his one true love. Yorrick and 355 are traveling through Russia on their way to Paris to find Yorricks old Girlfriend Beth. Yet things seem to be changing as far as the dynamic between 355 and her charge.

'Whys and Wherefores,' Part 2 of 5. As the last man and Agent 355 race toward Paris, the group of women protecting the daughter Yorick never even knew he sired continues to flee the Israeli soldiers led by Alter. Will anyone survive the inevitable collision of these three groups?

'Whys and Wherefores,' Part 3 of 5. As the series races for its conclusion on the dangerous streets of Paris, will the last man finally enjoy a long-awaited reunion? Beth And Yorrick are finally together again. Only Yorrick is not sure if she is trully who he belongs with anymore.

"Whys and Wherefores," Part 4 of 5. In the first of three final issues, Yorick Brown's journey draws to a close.

In the penultimate issue of the series concluding the 'Whys and Wherefores' story arc, the last man faces his final test. Yorrick and Alter finally come to blows after she has pushed him to his limits. Yet it does not become the battle we might have believed, for reasons we would not have suspected.

It's the dramatic conclusion you've been waiting for as Yorick is trapped in a small room stuck in a straight jacket. He explains to his clone things that had happened since his adventures ended in the last issue. In this very special 48-page issue.