Best of 2008; Best Comic Book; Y: The Last Man #60

There are few stories that really catch you since the start and doesn’t let you stop reading or watching them until you know how everything finishes.  Some stories that are so exciting that you consume them in a quasi-obsessive way. I remember I watched the first season of Lost on DVD in about three days, and that I read the first four Harry Potter’s books in no more than a month.

As with them my approach to Y: the Last Man was late, actually I start reading it when the last number had already some months out. Thanks to this, I shouldn’t wait, as the people who read it since it first begin publishing, five long years to know how the journey of the last man ends. In spite of my wait wasn’t too long, I doubt’ it was less exciting. I doubt my interest and expectation for the 60th issue was smaller than the one of any other fan. And all my expectation wasn’t just fulfilled, but exceeded.

Y #60 could be an end or an epilogue, but for me is more like a good bye. It’s nostalgic, even sad, and the use of flashbacks remarks this. They make you feel that everything you knew has gone. Nevertheless in the other hand it shows that life continue beyond us. And this is what gives to Y, not just a happy but poetic ending. Six panels which show us nothing but life. The Eros defeating the Thanatos. And finally, Y as any good story about Death, was really a great story about life.

“Alas poor Yorick, I knew him…”