Y:The Last Man #60 cover theory

[Swapmeetfever]

I think that the old man is Yorick and the kid is the future line of his clones. Sorry if anybody has already said posted a similar comment
http://www.dccomics.com/comics/?cm=8660

[SureLiesALot]

No....its obvious, Yorik was crazy all along, and the whole five years was just a crazy delusion lived inside the mind of a maniac, who happens to be crazy, and not knowing anything about reality lived in a crazy fantasy. Thus the whole five years never happened, and BKV is laughing all the way to the bank that we stayed with him so long.

[Swapmeetfever]

ha ha, that we be so messed up...

[wes_rk]

No....its obvious, Yorik was crazy all along, and the whole five years was just a crazy delusion lived inside the mind of a maniac, who happens to be crazy, and not knowing anything about reality lived in a crazy fantasy. Thus the whole five years never happened, and BKV is laughing all the way to the bank that we stayed with him so long.

I don't know why, but when I first saw the cover to #60 that was the exact same thing I thought.

[SureLiesALot]

All I gotta say, is if BKV has been janking our chain like that and that is the case, I'll never ever even think about reading another title with his name on it.

[Dark Traveller]

I guess writing Lost could make one a little twisted.

[Sean Walsh]

I'd like to think it ends with Yorick in a hospital room years in the future, telling the rest of his story to a young woman (a daughter or grand-daughter perhaps); and when he's done (or even dies) she walks outside and meets her young husband and their kids and they walk into the sunset of a brand new world.

[Jeff Brady]

All I gotta say, is if BKV has been janking our chain like that and that is the case, I'll never ever even think about reading another title with his name on it.

Why, because he did such a good job, you wouldn't ever want to read another good book?

[Ronald Bryan]

I figure the idea of the cover is that Yorick is old now, hence the use of the straight jacket, which is how we first met him in the series, and the child is showing that there is a future for the human race.

In fact, the perfect ending would be to mirror the beginning in a way.

[SureLiesALot]

Why, because he did such a good job, you wouldn't ever want to read another good book?

No, in fact I've lost a great deal of interest in the story over the past 20 or so issues. Watever the ending, it could have come a lot sooner, or we could have had a lot more story in the meantime.


But yea I'm thinking ronald is probably right, its just ol' yorik entertaining his grandtike.

[vazel]

No....its obvious, Yorik was crazy all along, and the whole five years was just a crazy delusion lived inside the mind of a maniac, who happens to be crazy, and not knowing anything about reality lived in a crazy fantasy. Thus the whole five years never happened, and BKV is laughing all the way to the bank that we stayed with him so long.Oh man he better not do that I was so pissed off when they did that shit on Roseanne where it turned out it was a fiction book Roseanne was writing. But then again that series went to shit when they won the lottery.

[unstrucknote]

I thought that perhaps the guy on the cover is Yorick's dad, a mental patient with delusions of grandeur. He was mentioned early on in the series as a writer, so maybe the story of Y: The Last Man is one of his twisted stories. Yorick and Hero are named after literary characters, after all. Just a theory. We'll find out in 12 hours when the comic stores open.

[Sean Walsh]

I thought that perhaps the guy on the cover is Yorick's dad, a mental patient with delusions of grandeur. He was mentioned early on in the series as a writer, so maybe the story of Y: The Last Man is one of his twisted stories. Yorick and Hero are named after literary characters, after all. Just a theory. We'll find out in 12 hours when the comic stores open.

Thankfully, sir.....you were wrong. :p

[RococoD]

Hah, the idea that Yorick is in an institution where the people from the Y story are actually characateurs of the people in reality, ala wizard of oz.

... but oh no.... That was the MOST AMAZING ending I have EVER seen for any sort of long form story, period.

[Hi-Fi]

This was amazing. Perfect.

[Mr.EZ]

Without a doubt, that was the best last page in comics history.

[unstrucknote]

Thankfully, sir.....you were wrong. :p

Thankfully yeah. I would've blown a gasket if I was right. And whose heart wrenched along with mine during the scene with Ampersand...

[ImpulseUCF]

Thankfully yeah. I would've blown a gasket if I was right. And whose heart wrenched along with mine during the scene with Ampersand...Yeah, that killed me! Ugh, too damn depressing!! I started an "official" spoilers thread to discuss the issue without tags.

[Mitsaso]

I wanna go somewhere peaceful and cry now.:(
This was a brilliant ending to a brilliant series... thank you, BKV.:(

Though now I'm terribly curious to see what the alternate ending (the one that will be used in the movie) might be... Y: The Last Man #60 reached the epic levels of, like, Citizen Kane to me.