Y: The Last Man, Volume 5: Ring of Truth

Author - Brian K. Vaughan ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Vertigo was reviewed on 17-Oct-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Y: The Last Man, Volume 5: Ring of Truth by Vertigo. This story keep getting better the more I read. Volume 5 keep this story more and more fun to read.¤

2) Paperback Book Y: The Last Man, Volume 5: Ring of Truth by Vertigo. This is the best book in the series. I really started to like Yorick in this book. And the story begins moving forward after being drifting in the Midwest for a long time. It is well worth the read if you get the opportunity.¤

3) Paperback Book Y: The Last Man, Volume 5: Ring of Truth by Vertigo. Ever since the first issue of the Safeword arc, "Y: The Last Man" has been a non-stop ride of awesome issue after awesome issue after awesome issue. Fans will be especially pleased with this book, the fifth collection of the series, as it is by far the longest one yet. It collects eight issue, and is composed of the two-issue "Tongues of Flame" arc, the one-shot "Hero´s Journey," and the five-issue arc, "Ring of Truth," which this trade paperback is named for.

Until this point, Brian K. Vaughan has been building the story quite nicely, leaving us asking question after question, but always satisfying us with each twist of the plot. But things start to change here. New developments are made, yes, but as Yorick, 355, and Dr. Mann finally reach the destination they´ve been aiming for since the first volume, answered to those burning questions are heaped upon us like food on a Thanksgiving Day plate.

+ What was up with that Toyota lady from One Small Step?

+ Who were those cloaked women who assassinated Agent 711 in Safeword?

+ Why did Yorick´s mother work with the Russians in One Small Step?

+ What made Hero so bad? (Hero actually gets her own one-shot in this issue, which is composed entirely of flash-backs. I was apprehensive when I saw it coming up, because I found the "side story" at the end of One Small Step to be frustrating. But my weariness for another tale that deviated from the main story line of Y were blown away by "Hero´s Journey." It´s one of the best comics I´ve read and gives us invaluable insight into one of the series´s most interesting characters.)

+ Also, most importantly, we finally hear Dr. Mann´s theory on why Yorick survived the plague.

With humor, drama, and some of the best action you´ll find in comics, wrier Brian K. Vaughan and penciller Pia Guerra (who illustrates all eight issues this time around) continue to blow me away with Yorick´s epic story. I´m sure fans and critics alike will agree that this, as the cover boasts, is "top-notch."

9/10¤

4) Paperback Book Y: The Last Man, Volume 5: Ring of Truth by Vertigo. Volume 5 was incredibly exciting, and answered the one question Y readers have been asking since the series began; "What caused all the men to die?" This volume also shows how complex Hero is, and how she tries to fight the demons within herself. If you read the first 4 volumes, this one will not disappoint.¤

5) Paperback Book Y: The Last Man, Volume 5: Ring of Truth by Vertigo. This is one of my favorite collections in the Y: THE LAST MAN series. I´ve been reading/rereading the books in the series in anticipation/celebration that the entire epic story is finally coming to an end. This is the volume that shows the end of Yorick, Agent 355, Dr. Mann, and Ampersand´s cross country journey come to an end. They finally reach Dr. Mann´s laboratory where she is able to determine that Yorick was shockingly not the key to the survival of malekind, but Ampersand. The next stage in the series is set into motion when Ampersand is kidnapped by the mysterious ninja who had been until now looking for Yorick.

There are a lot of fun things in this book, from Yorick´s hook up with another blonde named Beth to Hero´s emergence as something of a hero to the culmination of the Culper Ring story. And for the first time since the initial issues Beth returns as a character (the old Beth, not just the new one).

Some readers did not like the preceding issues. I did, very much. But I´ll grant that these issues are among the highpoints in the series. They not only sum up everything that the series had been leading up to before but also provide a transition to all that would occur next.¤

6) Paperback Book Y: The Last Man, Volume 5: Ring of Truth by Vertigo. Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, finally makes it to San Francisco where his unbalanced sister, Hero, finds him seemingly succumbing to the male-killing plague after losing his still-unused engagement ring to the burqa-clad agents of the Setauket Ring. But is the ring really the key to his survival? And what does it have to do with the mysterious Amulet of Helene, which the Setauket leader is determined to take from Agent 355 by any means necessary.¤

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