COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Y: The Last Man 2 Signature
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1119299005
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Owner:
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ryanmaddux
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
First appearance of President Margaret Valentine.
In a 2003 interview with Nolan Reese (available at: http://www.asitecalledfred.com/interviews/18.html), Brian explained that:
“I worked really hard on that first issue, because I know these days you don’t have the benefit. I know Neil Gaiman always said with SANDMAN that it took about eight issues to really find his footing and for SANDMAN to really find itself. But these days, if you don’t knock it out of the park in the first issue people won’t come back for number two. So I did want to front load the first issue, with hints of things to come.”
Interestingly, after putting all of that work into issue 1, introducing a majority of the characters who would be key players until the end and ending on among the most dramatic notes ever (Brian K. Vaughn writes cliff hanger endings, if you didn’t notice), Brian decided to follow it up by skipping two months into the future. Yeah, totally conventional. Then again, while Brian grew up a comic fan, he attended film school at NYU. He was well versed in a variety of storytelling structures. Anyway, we find Yorick has somehow managed to get himself from New York to Washington DC…. and manages to almost get hit by a dump truck. Of course, Amp escapes, takes his mask, exposes him as a male, and he is subdued by a woman. Good thing Yorcik is an escape artist.
Meanwhile, his mom is about to become President. No big deal. Yorick manages to find his mom at her new office in the White House. He sneaks up on her and she basically kicks his ass. His mom realizes that Yorick is important and decides that he must find Dr. Alison Mann to see if she can clone him and possibly save the human race.
Of course we’re reading a Brian K. Vaughn book, so that means that we have an attack on the White house and another epic cliff hanger.
Interestingly, Brian was accused by some critics of “hating women” (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9jT0RP643w) based on his depiction of women in YTLM. What I find humorous about this accusation is that the last man on earth (Yorick) is a pansy. His elderly mom manages to take him out quite easily and we see other female characters prove to be physically and mentally stronger than Yorick. If anything, I think that Brian’s trying to tell us that women very well may be the fairer and more competent of the sexes, which I find to be totally sexist. As a male, I am offended.
Collecting notes:
This book was much more difficult to find in high grade than issue 1. I subbed more 9.6s of issue 2 than 9.8s. This was a copy that I found on my own.
Signature notes:
Brian K Vaughan - Image Expo - 2/14/2012 - Witnessed by Doug Hurley
JG Jones - Wizard World Philly - 6/1/2012 - Witnessed by Rich Henn
Jose Marzan Jr. - Heroes - 6/22/2012 - Witnessed by DWC
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