Y: The Last Man: where to start reading
Adapts Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan & Pia Guerra. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
at Volume 2: Cycles.
The only season covers roughly the material of the first two volumes (the plague, the road out of Washington) but follows Yorick far less closely than the comic, adding political storylines and new characters. It was cancelled after this season.
Season 1 leaves off about 70% in. Pick the book up right there:
Volume 1: Unmanned
What the show changed here
- InventedSam Jordan, a trans man and friend of Hero's, is created for the show to explore gender more fully than the comic did.
- ChangedThe show follows Yorick's mother in the White House far more; in the comic a different official, not his mother, ends up president.
- ChangedYorick is modernised from a 2000s pop-culture man-child into a present-day mess; Hero is rewritten as an addict in recovery.
- ChangedThe story widens well past Yorick's viewpoint into Pentagon and political subplots the comic only glances at early on.
The single season broadly covers the events of the first two volumes but stays with Yorick far less closely than the comic, inventing political storylines and new characters. It was cancelled after one season, so the ten-volume story is left almost entirely unread.
Rate it from where you are. No account, and nothing here says a word about what happens next.
