“I think it’s a beautiful story about survival. “I read this comic book 10 years ago and fell in love with it,” Clark told reporters via Zoom. That was the question that Clark, Schnauzer, executive producer Nina Jacobson, and the cast endeavored to answer during the show’s appearance at the Television Critics Association summer 2021 press tour. Given that the comic series (of which 60 issues were published) debuted nearly 20 years ago, it’s reasonable to wonder if its premise can even hold up to modern expectations. Now the sci-fi story about a virus that wipes out every man on Earth save for Yorick and his capuchin monkey Ampersand is finally seeing the light of day via FX on Hulu…amid a pandemic, no less! The show then ran into behind the scenes issues cycling through several producers and lead actors before settling upon Eliza Clark as showrunner and Ben Schnetzer as protagonist Yorick Brown. The film project eventually developed into a TV pilot at FX in 2015.
Vaughan and illustrator Pia Guerra, was optioned to become a film as far back as 2007 with David Goyer producing. The story, first told in comic format from 2002 through 2008 by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra's Eisner Award-winning Vertigo series Y: The Last Man brings to vivid life the age-old speculation: What would really happen to the last man on Earth? Collects Y: The Last Man #1-60 and a sketchbook featuring behind-the-scenes art by Pia Guerra.It’s no secret that Y: The Last Man took its sweet time in getting adapted. In setting off across the post-male landscape, however, man and monkey are about to learn just how valuable they are-both as a prize and as a target.Ĭollected for the first time in a single, comprehensive omnibus, writer Brian K. Overnight, this anonymous twentysomething becomes the most important person on the planet-the key, it is hoped, to unlocking the secret of the mysterious sex-specific plague.įor Yorick himself, the most important person on the planet is 10,000 miles away-and he will stop at nothing to find her. For some unknown reason, one young man named Yorick Brown and his pet male monkey, Ampersand, are spared. The "gendercide," however, is not absolutely complete.
With the loss of nearly half the planet's population, the gears of society grind to a halt, and a world of women are left to pick up the pieces and try to keep civilization from collapsing entirely. Every man, every boy, every mammal with a Y chromosome everywhere on Earth suddenly collapses and dies. Vaughn's classic 60-issue post-apocalyptic series is now available in this new omnibus.
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