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| Y: The Last Man Vol. 3: One Small Step | 
 enlarge | Authors: Brian K. Vaughan, Brian V. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Jose Marzan
Creators: Pia Guerra, Jose Marzan
Publisher: Vertigo
Category: Book
List Price: $12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 8889
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 168
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 10 x 6.6 x 0.4
ISBN: 1401202012
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401202019
ASIN: 1401202012
Publication Date: April 1, 2004
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 Series keeps getting better. September 13, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man: One Small Step (DC Comics, 2004)
The third installment in Vaughan's Y: The Last Man series keeps things going at the same pace, with lots of action, interesting new characters, and further development of the plot. Yorick, 355, and Dr. Mann are continuing their cross-country journey to get to Mann's lab in San Francisco, but of course stuff has to get in the way. In this case, it's the possibility of three astronauts, two of them male, still being alive on the space station and trying to get back to Earth. Needless to say, if they stop, some of the people following them are bound to catch up with them...
Y is a fine series, well worth reading. Everything I've already said about it still holds true, and the storyline is getting more compelling as time goes on. If you tried the first book and weren't terribly impressed, keep going; it gets real good real fast. ***
 Brillant series July 3, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First off, please please don't pay any attention to the "Sexist..." review. The reviewer clearly hasn't read much of the series. The "amazons shooting arrows" thing clearly shows that the she didn't read enough to actually know that that was just one comment from a clueless character, not a fully story explaination for the significant story arc.
This story is an amazing, smart, powerful look at what might happen when more than half of the world's population disappears in the blink of an eye. Like it or not, a vast majority of the world's technical professions are dominated by men.
Would it take a less than a month to clear away all the dead bodies from the freeways? To fire the oil refineries and distribution networks back up? To get over an emotional loss that effects ever person (woman in this case) on the planet, bar none? Yeah, I think so.
Anyway, sorry for the ramble, but had to make sure that the 1 star was fully discredited.
This comic series is a brillant, fun, mind-bending, though-provoking series unlike anything I've ever seen or read before in any medium. The visual story telling of the comic medium is absolutely perfect for this story. The multiple story arcs are fascinating.
If you're not reading this series already, run, don't walk to the store or the Amazon checkout page to start this series. You WILL NOT be disappointed. I've read the books cover to cover twice since getting them a month ago, and have already read the comics (that I pick up every month like clockwork) start to finish no less than 5 times.
Great great stuff.
Continuing the saga of the new age Omega Man April 29, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As One Small Step, the third collected volume of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's compulsively addictive series from Vertigo, opens up, we now know that Yorick may indeed be the last living male mammal on the planet, but there are two male astronauts in orbit, and they're ready to come back home. Everything that happens between all this sets the stage for the future as Yorick, Agent 355, and Dr. Mann make try to make their way to them, but not before others cross their path with their own intentions. Despite the moments of lag here and there, One Small Step is still exceptional comic reading from the best ongoing series to come out of Vertigo since Garth Ennis' Preacher; and speaking of which, the in-joke in the beginning of this TPB will leave you having a good laugh.
"One Small Step" B+ / "Comedy and Tragedy" C- January 23, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This trade paperback is really made up of two different stories. The first one, "One Small Step," is a continuation of some of the plot lines that began in Volume Two. As the three cosmonauts who were not on Earth when the plague hit, two of them male, prepare to land, a tip from a misguided woman lead the militant villain Alter to Yorick. There are many different plots at work here, and they're all interesting, but none of them were as gripping as the plot lines of Volume Two (the women of Marrisville, the face-off with the Amazons, Yorick realizing what his sister has become).
"One Small Step" was a good enough story, though what followed wasn't even close. Volume Three concludes with a two issue story arc called "Comedy and Tragedy" that strays away from the main plot of the series, shifting focus to a troupe of actors who are putting on a play about how women would react to the last man on Earth. Yorick, 355, and Dr. Mann only make a brief appearance in the last pages of the concluding issue. Brian K. Vaughan is a great writer, so these two issues were quite readable, but they strayed too far away from the central story. These new characters weren't even likable in the least. I don't know what possessed Vaughan to do this, but I'll be glad to see Yorick back as the central character in the next volume.
7/10
Good stuff July 14, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Each TPB I read leaves me wanting more. I can't wait for the next one. Interesting story, good art, funny and my girlfriend likes reading them too!
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