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| Y: The Last Man, Volume 5: Ring of Truth | 
 enlarge | Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Publisher: Vertigo
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 7017
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 10 x 6.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1401204872
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401204877
ASIN: 1401204872
Publication Date: July 13, 2005
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Product Description
Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, finally makes it to San Francisco where his unbalanced sister, Hero, finds him seemingly succumbing to the male-killing plague after losing his still-unused engagement ring to the burqa-clad agents of the Setauket Ring. But is the ring really the key to his survival? And what does it have to do with the mysterious Amulet of Helene, which the Setauket leader is determined to take from Agent 355 by any means necessary.
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 Y just keeps getting better. November 9, 2005
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man: Ring of Truth (DC Comics, 2005)
Y: The Last Man just keeps getting better as it goes. Vaughan takes his characters to new levels of psychological depth with every collection. (For those who haven not yet gotten far in the series, be warned that here be spoilers.)
Yorick, the doc, and 355 have finally made it to San Francisco, where Yorick is undergoing a battery of tests to figure out why he's immune to the plague. Needless to say, there are still loads of people chasing the intrepid trio (and Ampersand), some of whom we know, others we've had only vague recollections of. Vaughan finally gets us back to Beth, Yorick's kind-of-fiancee, and finally starts us on the road to figuring out why Yorick is immune. (Don't worry, you will have more questions when you finish this one than you did when you started it; there's still a lot more of this series to go.)
Vaughan has created something fierce. You want to read this. ****
Incredible series July 3, 2005
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
Reasons, Origins, and Complications February 18, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
In the fifth trade paperback of Brian K. Vaughan's Y: The Last Man, we finally see Yorick's girlfriend Beth for the first time since the first story arc, we get a glimpse into Hero Brown's troubled past, a new girl named Beth complicates things with Yorick, and the reason that Yorick and Ampersand survived the plague is revealed.
In the story arc "Tongues of Flame", Yorick goes to a church in order to repent for the girl he killed in the previous arc. While there, he meets Beth, a girl who has become the de facto caretaker of the church. They comfort each other and provide company that each desperately needs. Yorick also helps her deal with a group of Amazons.
In "Hero's Journey", we see scenes from Hero's past, which was fairly traumatizing. From feeling neglected by her parents to being afraid of her grandfather for dark (and implied) reasons to overcompensating sexually for a bad case of acne, we are able to see why the Amazons were so successful at brainwashing her. We also learn what happened to her between her "incarceration" in Marrisville and her situation now.
Finally, in "Ring of Truth", having finally reached California, Yorick, Agent 355, and Allison try to isolate the reason why Yorick and Ampersand survived the "gendercide", but things get complicated when some ex-Culper Ring agents show up. And just as the answer is revealed, a mysterious ninja named Toyota kidnaps Ampersand again (she was responsible for his kidnapping in "Comedy & Tragedy").
This may be the best Y trade paperback yet. While "Safeword" may be the best arc, these three arcs are all very good and very intriguing. The story only continues to get better, and the next leg of the journey of Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, should prove to be very interesting indeed.
Brilliant and exciting series October 23, 2005
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
I am overjoyed with this series the artwork is great and the story is intelligent and engaging.
Puts the Series Back on Track October 13, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I missed all the hype about this series, and just happened upon the trade paperbacks at the library. The premise, as the title says, is that some kind of plague spontaneously kills every male on earth at the same instant -- except a 20something slacker named Yorick and his monkey Ampersand. Following the events of the first four books, this fifth picks up the story of Yorick, his government agent bodyguard (Agent 355), and a geneticist (Dr. Mann), who have finally made it to San Francisco, where Dr. Mann has a lab where she hopes to be able to figure out why Yorick survived.
The book opens with Yorick at a church, seeking atonement for having killed a woman in the previous book. There, he meets the cute female caretaker, and after a great deal of talking, finally makes the beast with two backs after two years of celibacy. This arc ends rather oddly with a brief glimpse at Yorick's girlfriend Beth, who's been stuck in the Australian outback for the last two years. Then the story switches over to "Hero's Journey", in which we learn all about Yorick's sister Hero, who was last seen languishing in jail in Ohio, after trying to kill Yorick and his companions. Her backstory is given, which goes a long way toward explaining the ease at which she was brainwashed into the Amazon cult, and why she suffers from hallucinations. From here, events start to get complicated, as a rehabilitated Hero arrives in San Francisco hoping to find her brother, mysterious burqa-wearing agents of the Culper Ring attempt to retrieve an item from Agent 355 (all of which relates back to the first book), Dr. Mann runs test on Yorick, and a ninja (who I believe appeared earlier in the series) kidnaps Ampersand.
This all gets a little bit choppy, but it's a definite improvement from books three and four, both of which got fairly ridiculous and suffered from some distracting guest artist work. There's plenty of action, not too much of the lame attempts at humor that the series is infected by, and we get a little more depth with a few characters. My interest had been faltering, but I'll definitely keep reading after this one -- if only to find out when the Israeli army women are going to show up again.
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