Y - The Last Man Book 5: Ring of Truth
Y - The Last Man Book 5: Ring of Truth, by Brian K Vaughn, Pia Guerra & Jose Marzan Jr; Vertigo/DC Comics
THERE ARE isolated moments in this collection of #24 -31 of this comic book series that I worry writer Vaughn is going to veer off playing amateur psychologist again, but he keeps it to a minimum, and actually uses such moments to enhance and move this epic on.
There are also a number of flashbacks happening in the story, that feel not so much that they’re rounding the back-story but becoming a way to feature males, and possibly add a different set of characterisations. It’s a toss-up whether or not that’s a necessary evil.
But the crux of the matter is that Yorick runs off to a Catholic church to confess his sins, and goes and commits the one sin romantics thought he’d never do. In between all this we’ve got renegade secret agents, a reformed sister in Hero (possibly), and a not so surprising revelation that the reason our boy’s survived when the rest of mankind hasn’t is most likely down to his pet monkey – It’s always been a Ross from Friends situation with the critter, and the way the antidote, as it were, was made to work for Y fits nicely with the running jokes about Ampersand’s favourite trick throughout this series.
There are false trails, hidden pasts, and new horizons to be sought. This collection works in isolation and recovers ground lost in Book 4, but it’s presumed Book 6 is where the series moves on to a new level.
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