Y: The Last Man #57 *spoilers*

[FallOfFingolfin]

What did everyone think of this issue? Very character-driven, obviously...not too shocked about the breakup revelation, but very shocked about Hero telling Beth about Beth Jr. Just...wow. Three issues left (two in this arc), lots of death and destruction to go.

Reactions?

[Adriel]

Someone post a summary...

PLEASE!!!

I can't go buy it today, but I need to know what happens.

[The Lucky One]

Only if you renounce all ties to Tony Stark. Fascist.

355 admires a dress in a Parisian store... she wants to buy it, so the owner tells her it costs either 400 Euros or something to barter. 355 pulls her gun (hilarious), causing the woman to panic and tell her to just take it, but it turns out 355 wants to trade it for the dress. Bad move, as we see a woman with an Israeli armband watching her from outside the store.

Meanwhile, Yorick and Beth are screwing. Umm... a lot. And I could be wrong, but I think this may be the first time I've ever seen full female frontal nudity in a Vertigo book. (And, er, apparently Beth isn't a natural blonde. Or the colorist was just off.) Anyway, Beth has accepted Yorick's ring and his marriage proposal, but when Yorick asks what she was about to tell him right before the plague hit, she's evasive. They have exposition time for a while, talking about Ampersand and the cause of the plague (Yorick still doesn't get it, but wishes aliens had been involved). Beth reveals that the Outback women she hung out with believe the men all disappeared into the Dreamtime or a parallel reality or... uh, something. Like myself, Yorick looks at her like she's completely lost it, then reveals that all of his dreams told her he shouldn't be seeking Beth out... which is why he doesn't believe in them.

Except, whoops!- Beth thinks the reason his dreams told him that is that he realized the truth: namely, that right before the plague hit, [seriously, I would suggest not reading this, just waiting to read the issue]she was about to break up with him. That bitch! Yorick is... not pleased. He thought they were destined to be together, but back then, she felt he was holding her back. But now, now she feels differently! Because he's all manly and strong and responsible! Except Yorick understandably feels that he wouldn't have gotten that way in the first place if he hadn't spent 5 years looking for someone who had wanted to dump him. See, Yorick, this is why I've been telling you to stick with Beth 2 ever since she first showed up, because she's so much better. Stupid boy. Anyway, he storms out for a walk and Beth waits behind, hoping he'll come back (which he has to, because Ampersand's still there); but after waiting all night, the next person through her door is Hero. And Beth 2. And Beth Jr. And uh-oh, now it's Beth's turn to be surprised, as she comes face to adorable face with -- dun dun DUN -- Yorick's daughter!

Ah, it's going to be an interesting next three issues. :)

-D

[Adriel]

Oh, snap!

Looking back at the first issue, it all makes sense now!

Wowie Zowie!

What on earth is going to happen next?

[stealthwise]

At times like these, I am SO glad I'm not waiting for the trades. Another great issue that leaves me clamouring for more.

[Hi-Fi]

What a fantastic issue. But Drew, I don't see Beth as a bitch at all. So what that she was going to break up with him like years ago. Does that make her a bad person?

By the way, did she wait for Yorick to come back
in the same spot for hours or was it just my impression?

Loved the dialogue here, but then again, is Brian K. Vaughan, so you can't go wrong.

[The Lucky One]

What a fantastic issue. But Drew, I don't see Beth as a bitch at all. So what that she was going to break up with him like years ago. Does that make her a bad person?

The "bitch" was just added for humorous effect. I don't truly think she's a bad person... I don't like her, mind, but that would be taking it a bit far.

Slightly hippie, maybe, but not a bitch. ;)

By the way, did she wait for Yorick to come back
in the same spot for hours or was it just my impression?

That's what I took away from it. Which is impressive. Or dumb. Maybe a little of both.

-D

[Hi-Fi]

Fair enough.

Also, how cool was having the spread page of Yorick saying "what?" after Beth's reveal and then the same thing happening to her in the last page?

Now karma, that's a bitch.

[Saturn Girl]

Fair enough.

Also, how cool was having the spread page of Yorick saying "what?" after Beth's reveal and then the same thing happening to her in the last page?

Now karma, that's a bitch.

I loved that effect. Especially how they were identical, but reversed (in terms of placement in room, placement of word balloon, etc.) Although 2/3 of the issue was simply two people talking in a closed room, Pia did a great job making each panel interesting, and the narrative revelations were everything I hoped they would be. I've been suspecting Beth's answer since the first issue, and I'm glad Yorick recognizes what his dreams have been telling him all along, even if he's not quite ready to believe them yet.

Also loved how Beth tied everything back to her experience with the Aborigines - great continuity, and I really like how she is the one driving home the point that dreams are important. But she should look at her own, which were telling her the same thing as Yorick's.

Yorick is so totally going to be nabbed by Alter's soldiers next ish.

[stealthwise]

I loved that effect. Especially how they were identical, but reversed (in terms of placement in room, placement of word balloon, etc.) Although 2/3 of the issue was simply two people talking in a closed room, Pia did a great job making each panel interesting, and the narrative revelations were everything I hoped they would be. I've been suspecting Beth's answer since the first issue, and I'm glad Yorick recognizes what his dreams have been telling him all along, even if he's not quite ready to believe them yet.

Also loved how Beth tied everything back to her experience with the Aborigines - great continuity, and I really like how she is the one driving home the point that dreams are important. But she should look at her own, which were telling her the same thing as Yorick's.

Yorick is so totally going to be nabbed by Alter's soldiers next ish.

Strong observations, although I think it'd be a good demonstration of how far Yorick has come if the Israelis try to grab him and he just kicks the crap out of them. (Or at least manages to slyly evade or escape them.)

[Mitsaso]

Awwww! Yorick has the cutest little butt!!!:D

I should be ashamed that THIS was what stroke me the most in such an amazing issue...:o :rolleyes:

[The Lucky One]

I should be ashamed that THIS was what stroke me the most

How positively Freudian...

-D

[Saturn Girl]

I have to admit, any issue with Yorick flesh is a good one!

Loved how Yorick and Beth seemed to have bumped into every wall and piece of furniture in the room. And that was a pretty large room!

[mgs]

with this book, i wonder why some woman creator has not had the idea to make a book about a world with one woman and a bunch of gay guys in it. seriously. unless one's out there I don't know about.

[Adriel]

Well, in the comic, two women wrote a comic in which all of the women except for one were killed.

In this comic within the comic, all of the men killed each other in a brutal war, so the woman was the last person on Earth.

[Patient Boy]

I've honestly got no idea how everything is going to turn out. And that's a good thing.

[ultramandingo]

........something bad . 355 has no gun and that dress wasnt made for kicking butt . she shoulda got a emma peel type jump suit

[Saturn Girl]

........something bad . 355 has no gun and that dress wasnt made for kicking butt . she shoulda got a emma peel type jump suit

The scene where she gives the gun away was a sign that she wants to put her violent Culper Ring past behind her now that she completed her final mission and got Yorick "where he needs to be." She's done with that life.

But 355 doesn't need no steenkin' gun to be dangerous. She had two broken arms but STILL killed her mentor by literally ripping her throat out. If 355 sees Yorick in danger, it would take a nuke to keep her from dealing some damage to Alter and her soldiers.

[ultramandingo]

The scene where she gives the gun away was a sign that she wants to put her violent Culper Ring past behind her now that she completed her final mission and got Yorick .....

........and is gunna get killed ?!? its called foreshadowing . i hope alter appreciates 355's fashion scence

[Shellhead]

I bet there's going to be a scene coming up where Yorick has to decide whether to save Beth (#1) or 355. Or maybe Beth (#1) or Beth (#2).

[zebop]

........something bad . 355 has no gun and that dress wasnt made for kicking butt . she shoulda got a emma peel type jump suit

Seeing 355 in a dress should most definitely kick butt. Every woman should have a little black dress.

I base that observation on prior knowledge. :cool:

[Saturn Girl]

I would not be surprised if both Yorick and Beth-2 end up dying, and 355 will end up taking care of Beth Jr. Ever since Allison told 355 she couldn't have children, I've had this sneaking suspicion that something would happen to change that situation and turn 355 into a mother.

Maybe it isn't Beth Jr. but one of Yorick's clones, but I think 355 will have a child in her life by series end.

[bcarlyle]

I can't wait to see how it ends. I don't think Beth and Yorick will be together but I think Yorick will live.

[-bonfireben-]

By the way, did she wait for Yorick to come back
in the same spot for hours or was it just my impression?

In an earlier issue Yorick has a flashback to a convo with Beth where they discuss a trip to Paris and he asks if they should (meet/go-to/do-something, i don't remember exactly) at the Eiffel Tower. Beth remarks on the phallic-ness of the Tower and suggests the Arc de' Triomphe instead. Yorick comments on the "opposite of phallic"-ness of the Arc. It's at the Arc de' Triomphe that Beth keeps going back to and where they finally meet. I don't remember exactly, but it's possible that Yorick recounted that memory to 355.