Comments on: Y – The Last Man: Massive Spoilers, Bewilderment & Pain

By: Mutt

Mutt — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:38:14 +0000

So i’ve just finished this series after waiting patiently year upon year. it was one of the best series’ of all time until 355 was off’d. WTF! she and Y were the only important characters, the dynamic between them was what held the story together. Once she was gone the story unravelled completely into a mess of pointless and rather dumb wrap ups.

geriatric Y escapes, into his own insanity i presume, wow that’s profound!

very unimpressed

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:57:44 +0000

Rest in peace, 355.

BKV likes to kill off favoured characters? Maybe I can find his email address and tell him Alter’s always been one of my favourite Y characters. It’s true, or at least it used to be.

By: Romero

Romero — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:23:26 +0000

Yeah, I think/hope it is just the unluck of the draw. As an African-American I don’t believe there is anything racist in the storytelling, as each character stands on their own as solid and three-dimensional persons. If they were caricatures or stereotypes, then it would be another story. Besides, not that it would matter either way, but isn’t BKV’s wife Black?

By: David

David — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:45:18 +0000

If it makes you feel better, I don’t think BKV kills of his black, cool characters because they’re black, but because they’re so cool. He’s said before that writers should kill their darlings, which is why he always kills the characters readers would most hate to see go. Besides Agent 355 and Alex Wilder, refer also to the deaths of Runaways’ Gert Yorkes and Ex Machina’s Journal Moore.

This is why the guy who writes the best black characters in comics is also the guy most likely to kill them off. It’s an unfortunate irony, and it’s gotten a bit trite, but it’s not racism.

By: joshschr

joshschr — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:03:12 +0000

PS “Though she is just a fictional character, I have to remind myself to not cry and that this is not real.”

I also have to remind myself not to burn Alter in effigy. What a monster.

By: joshschr

joshschr — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:00:59 +0000

AAAAH! I just read this issue. I don’t have the whole series, but for crying out loud, she shepherded Yorick from early on, through all of his messed up relationships along the way, helped him grow into a decent guy. And after admitting that they love each other, she gets popped in the head? A 3 page death scene. Not fitting, but a decent nod to how important she was.

My only hope is that this is some sort of terrible fake-out like Denny’s “death” in the last issue of BKV’s Escapist. Does the Culper Ring have robots/clones?

By: WHY!!!!

WHY!!!! — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:27:18 +0000

I so agree with the whole “355 is the whole book” sentiment. I was so bitter about her death that at this point I kind of hope everyone else in the series dies. Nuclear holocost would be fine.

By: Billiam

Billiam — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:13:10 +0000

I also have no idea what is coming in the last 2 issues of the book: and I love that! Just when we thought we knew exactly how everything was going to wrap up, Vaughan pulls the rug out from under us.
I mean, I can understand how you felt when, for example, Marvel killed Bill Foster, but I thought the issue and the character’s death was amazing.

By: Mister Tacks

Mister Tacks — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:07:26 +0000

355 was the series for me. The shock value of her death entirely ruined the whole series for me. I really will find it hard to become emotionally invested in the story any longer. I mean 355 was the heart of the book.

By: pinchywearo

pinchywearo — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:30:45 +0000

The character finally came full circle…it was the right time for her to go.

By: Darren T

Darren T — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:58:30 +0000

355 is the series for me.

I don’t have as much interest in reading the final two issues now. At least she almost made it to the end of the series.

355 is the only character that I would feel upset to have killed off, so I can understand why BKV got rid of her to have an emotional impact.

Though she is just a fictional character, I have to remind myself to not cry and that this is not real.

By: redman

redman — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:16:40 +0000

i felt sad for 355 . i mean .. damn dude …

By: Shaun G.

Shaun G. — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:09:13 +0000

This really pisses me off even without the whole “Black character gets killed off” aspect of it. Vaughn is going to have to Wow me in these last two issues in order to get me to accept this death.

At one point I was going to re-read the whole series before the last issue comes out, but after this I’m not going to bother. Every issue I would just think to myself, “355 is dead”. I’m really tired of shocking deaths.