Y: The Last Man #1 through Y: The Last Man #25

Complete listed story — includes the ending

Y: The Last Man #1

In Brooklyn, Yorick Brown has a long-distance telephone conversation with his girlfriend Beth Deville as she explores the Australian outback. Yorick is an unemployed escape artist who is training a Capuchin monkey named Ampersand. Yorick asks Beth to marry him when suddenly their telephone call is cut short.

In Washington, D.C., Yorick's mother, Jennifer Brown, is a United States House representative. On the steps of the Capital Building, she gets into an argument with a U.S. Senator concerning a pending abortion rights bill.

In Nablus in the West Bank, a team of embedded reporters tries to conduct an interview with a female soldier named Colonel Tse'Elon. Tse'Elon is in the midst of a firefight with a group of violent nationals, but agrees to conduct the interview anyway.

In Jordan, a special ops agent known only as Agent 355 enters the home of Doctor Frozan Hamad. She tells Hamad that she is in great danger and that she is here to protect her. Hamad rejects her offer, but 355 tells her that there are those who seek to kill her to obtain the Amulet of Helene, which hangs on Hamad's neck. Seconds later, a group of masked men enter through the window and shoot Frozan Hamad. Agent 355 kills them, but she is too late: Hamad is dead. She grabs the amulet and regroups with her extraction team.

In Boston, Doctor Allison Mann admits herself to the maternity ward of a hospital. She is going into labor and is about to give birth to her own clone. Elsewhere in the city, Yorick's sister Hero Brown works as an EMT. She is romantically involved with a firefighter named Joe and preparing to have sex in the back of an ambulance. A call comes in, and Joe is forced to cut the dalliance short.

Suddenly, all across the world, all of the males of all animal species begin having violent seizures. They cough up heavy amounts of blood then fall over dead. The only members of the male gender who appear to survive the pandemic are Yorick and Ampersand.

Y: The Last Man #2

Two months after the global death of all other males, Yorick and Ampersand have traveled by foot to Washington, D.C. Yorick disguises his features by wearing a hooded cloak and a gas mask and carries Ampersand in a cage while the pet wears a diaper. He meets a young woman driving a sanitation truck, collecting the bodies of the dead that have been littering the streets and bringing them to a mass crematorium in exchange for food. Due to Ampersand's shenanigans, Yorick loses his mask and the woman is startled to see a living man. Rather than feeling compassion however, she places him in handcuffs with the intent of bartering him to a radical feminist organization known as the Daughters of the Amazon.

Meanwhile, Agent 355, having returned to the United States, goes to the home of Secretary of Agriculture Margaret Valentine. It is her duty to inform Valentine that through the Constitutional rites of succession, she is now the President of the United States.

Meanwhile, Yorick escapes from the handcuffs and manages to get to the White House and reunited with his mother. Congresswoman Jennifer Brown is overjoyed to see that Yorick is still alive, but also has to tell him that his father is dead. Yorick had been hoping that whatever mysterious factor that enabled him and Ampersand to survive might have saved his father as well.

Without warning, the windows of Jennifer's open explode inward and glass and debris fly everywhere. Jennifer and Yorick as the sounds of gunfire can be heard from outside.

Y: The Last Man #3

Agent 355 brings Margaret Valentine to Washington, D.C. to assume her role as president and Jennifer Brown hides her son Yorick in a bunker to keep him safe from a surprise attack at the White House. The widows of several members of Congress want to take their former husbands' seats to keep government functioning, but their plan is interrupted by one of the accidentally killing a hostage, resulting in a brief firefight that 355 and Valentine interrupt. Yorick makes an escape and reveals his existence to the group. Valentine assigns 355 to chaperone Yorick to Boston, where Allison Mann may be able to protect him and learn why he and Ampersand have survived a global gendercide of all Y-chromosome animals. In Israel, Yedida Tse'Elon carries out an aggressive campaign of regional domination against her Arab neighbors and gets a cryptic phone call from an unknown caller that informs her that a man is still alive in America.

Y: The Last Man #4

Agent 355 escorts Yorick Brown and Ampersand to Boston to meet Allison Mann. Yorick stops off at a vigil held by the Washington Monument that is vandalized by the Daughters of the Amazon. Yorick intervenes, revealing his existence to them and is brutalized by the cult until Agent 355 steps in to save him and the cult members scatter. As the duo continue, an Amazon returns to the group's headquarters to inform their leader Victoria that she has spotted a man. Victoria asks for volunteers to track him down, and one of them is Hero Brown.

Y: The Last Man #5

Agent 355 leads Yorick Brown and Ampersand to meet Allison Mann. Meanwhile, the Daughters of the Amazon are trailing to intercept him and find a woman who has a motorcycle that the group used to own and Hero Brown proves her loyalty by killing her.

In Mann's laboratory, she reveals that she has previously cloned her own nephew and brought the child to term in her uterus. At the moment he was born, the gendercide occurred that killed all organisms with a Y-chromosome and even all stored sperm; she believes she is personally responsible somehow. When she sees Ampersand and Yorick, she becomes convinced that he may be the cause of the gendercide and attempts to draw blood from the two, causing the monkey to jump out the window.

A few hours later, Alter Tse'Elon arrives, on the hunt for Yorick, but they depart to try to find him and set the laboratory on fire before they go. When Mann and her companions return, they find Mann's work destroyed and debate if they should return to the White House to get new instructions, head to California for a back-up laboratory site, or head out to Australia to find Beth Deville, Yorick's fiancee.

Y: The Last Man #6

Agent 355, Ampersand, Yorick Brown, and Allison Mann bribe their way onto a train headed out of Boston to get to Mann's backup laboratory in California, in the hopes that they can discover what caused the mass gendercide of all males and how Ampersand and Yorick survived. They are attacked by the Freight Train Riders of America, a gang of violent hobos and have to jump off the train.

The Daughters of the Amazon are in pursuit, including Hero Brown, who has an emotional breakdown from having to kill a woman to prove her loyalty. They encounter a Russian woman explaining in broken English that men from space are coming to Kansas and Victoria has her sent away, assuming she is crazy. Another woman reports seeing a man in a gas mask with a monkey and this leads Hero to suspect that her brother is still alive.

In rural Ohio, a woman comes across Yorick, lying knocked out in a field.

Y: The Last Man #7

After flying off of a moving train, Yorick Brown awakens in a modest home in rural Ohio, being attended to by Sonia. Agent 355 has a and tells Allison Mann to leave her to recuperate and find Yorick as soon as possible.

In Boston, the Daughters of the Amazon hunt down a woman who has information about a man wearing a gas mask. The group violently interrogates as many homeless as they can to get any intelligence on him, leading Hero Brown to confirm that her little brother is still alive.

Sonia introduces Yorick to the entire town of Marrisville, a functioning community made up of 67 women who have managed to keep electricity flowing and grown fresh food in spite of the gendercide. Some of the residents are non-plussed to have him there, including Lydia, a matriarch who has been self-sufficient since she was a teen. Allison arrives and gets a small party to fetch Agent 355. While they are out, several of the townspeople confer about the danger posed by outsiders.

Y: The Last Man #8

Hero Brown informs Victoria that her brother Yorick Brown is the last man on Earth and Victoria convinces her that she must kill him.

In Marrisville, the community of women welcome Yorick, Agent 355, and Allison Mann, but several of the members secretly harbor doubts that these outsiders may destroy their village if they found out who they truly are. Agent 355 rambles in a delirium and confesses that she lusts after Yorick. Meanwhile, he chops wood with Sonia and the two bond and she solicits that she wants to leave with him and be his romantic partner; he says that he wants to be loyal to Beth, his fiancee in Australia, but ends up kissing Sonia. She tearfully calls it off, claiming that he's too good for her and she's a recovering drug dealer. All of the women in Marrisville are convicts.

They return to town and he confronts the women about how they owe a debt to society, but as they argue, Hero appears with a bow trained at her brother and the demand to come with her.

Y: The Last Man #9

The Daughters of the Amazon have hunted Yorick Brown and found him in Marrisville, Ohio, where his sister Hero Brown threatens to kill him. Victoria pleads with the village leadership to hand him over for their cause of exterminating the last man. They refuse and Yorick offers himself up to the gang to save the village, thinking that he can talk sense into Hero.

As Victoria prepares to murder him, Sonia kills her, leading Hero to kill Sonia in retribution. Yorick points a gun at Hero's head and she begs him to kill her.

Y: The Last Man #10

Yorick Brown has a gun trained on his sister Hero Brown, after she killed Sonia for vengeance's sake. He refuses to kill her and tells the women of Marrisville to imprison the Daughters of the Amazon as violent psychopaths. Lydia refuses, as the entire village is made up of former convicts who promised they would never imprison anyone. Exasperated, he resolves to leave.

Allison Mann accuses the cult of burning down her laboratory and Hero promises they didn't. The real culprit is Lieutenant-General Tse'Elon, who is busy stealing a Blackhawk helicopter in Massachusetts to hunt down Yorick herself. She receives a message from Jennifer Brown that her son is in Ohio and she needs to act quickly to intercept him.

Agent 355 has started to recover from her concussion and informs Yorick they can leave soon. The two bond over a fireside chat and haircut. Meanwhile, the Daughters of the Amazon have been incarcerated, but Hero plots an escape. Agent 355, Ampersand, Allison Mann, and Yorick head on a train to California overnight to get to Mann's secondary laboratory in the hopes of finding out how to undo the devastating effects of the gendercide. One of the riders is Natalya Zamyatin, who insists that she needs to get to Kansas as a space rocket will land there; she is ejected for causing a scene.

On the, three astronauts come to realize that their life support systems are failing and they must return to Earth.

Y: The Last Man #11

Agent 355, Ampersand, Yorick Brown, and Allison Mann continue to California to get to Mann's laboratory and investigate the gendercide, when Natalya Zamyatin lands with a thud on the top of the train car. Agent 355 goes to investigate and the two briefly fight before Yorick shows his face to Natalya. She reveals that she is not there for Yorick, but to retrieve the last cosmonaut, Vladimir, who is on the. It is going to ground in Kansas and she is en route to retrieve him. In orbit, he and two American astronauts prepare to re-enter.

Alter Tse'Elon continues hunting for Yorick and learns that the woman who sent her is his mother, Jennifer Brown.

Y: The Last Man #12

As Yedida Tse'Elon closes in on Yorick Brown, his mother Jennifer Brown explains that she has involved the Israeli military in extracting him because she doesn't trust the Culper Ring and Agent 355's motivations. She has hidden a tracking device on Ampersand to keep tabs on him.

Meanwhile, Natalya Zamyatin leads Agent 355, Ampersand, Yorick, and Allison Mann to a field in Kansas where she claims that the will land with a Russian cosmonaut and two American astronauts, who are planning on landing on Earth soon. They will land near a fortified bunker that is made to withstand plagues. When the group arrives, they are met by Heather Hartle and Heidi Hartle, caretakers of the site. In the distance, Tse'Elon points a gun at Yorick.

Y: The Last Man #13

Yorick Brown, Ampersand, Agent 355, Allison Mann, and Natalya Zamyatin have been met by Heather Hartle and Heidi Hartle at a pathogen-proof bunker in Kansas. They have arrived just in time for three astronauts (two of them men) to touch down from the. Unbeknownst to them, Yedida Tse'Elon plots to abduct Yorick and take him to Israel.

Inside the safehouse, they hear a loud bang and Agent 355 and Natalya rush to investigate. They find an exploded tractor: it was a distraction to abduct Yorick. The Israelis capture him with no resistance, but as they are taking him in their helicopter, a firefight breaks out, injuring Natalya and killing two of Tse'Elon's colleagues. Agent 355 gets on a radio to tell her foe that she will trade Yorick for the two male astronauts.

Y: The Last Man #14

Yorick Brown has been kidnapped by Yedida Tse'Elon and Agent 355 offers to swap him for two male astronauts due to land on Earth imminently. Both sides attempt to double-cross the other. Yorick attempts to appeal to Sadie's conscience to let him go. Yedida's plan is to murder the astronauts with a missile, taking away the Americans' advantage. Sadie intervenes and Yorick helps to narrowly stop her. Natalya Zamyatin works with Agent 355 to neutralize the other soldiers and the capsule lands, but it's not clear if it's been damaged on the way down.

Y: The Last Man #15

The capsule lands in Kansas, but immediately explodes, with Agent 355 and Allison Mann only saving one of the three: Ciba Weber. Sadie overhears Agent 355 relaying this to Yorick Brown via walkie talkie. She has a change of heart and releases him from his shackles and tells him that she will instead restrain her commander Yedida Tse'Elon and await punishment for having abducted him and potentially killing the only other men alive.

Yorick tells Agent 355 that he decided to let them be disarmed by Natalya Zamyatin and sends them back to Israel with Sadie in charge to court-martial Yedida. The two bond over discussing their adventure. Meanwhile, Allison Mann talks to Ciba as Heather Hartle and Heidi Hartle attend to her well-being. Ciba's colleagues on the landing vessel insisted that she be saved, knowing that all other men were dead, because she is pregnant.

As Agent 355, Allison, and Yorick plan to get back on the road to California and access Mann's backup laboratory, the Hartles promise to take care of Ciba and her baby and Natalya Zamyatin volunteers to stay as well to keep them safe.

As the Israelis depart, they disavow Jennifer Brown. At the same time, her daughter Hero enters her office.

Y: The Last Man #16

In rural Nebraska, young girl Manda misses her mark in a play rehearsal and interrupts professional actress Edie. Director Cayce Thomas calls for a break. Her troupe travels and performs across small towns and the receive a request to act out dangling storylines from a. While struggling to figure out how to entertain the local community that night, Manda shrieks that she's heard a monster. The monster is a wounded Ampersand, whom the troupe takes in to care for. They change his diaper and discover he's male. They are inspired to do a play about the last man on earth. Unbeknownst to them, a Toyota|woman watches them in a tree.

Y: The Last Man #17

The Fish & Bicycle Traveling Theater Troupe has been inspired to write a play about the last man on Earth after discovering an injured monkey, Ampersand. The initial practice is tense and awkward and the local town's den mother does not approve of the premise. In spite of this, the performance is a hit.

In the rafters, Toyota watches and searches for Ampersand on behalf of Dr. M. She is tasked with retrieving the animal and to keep the body count to a minimum.

In the second act, a fight breaks out over vulgarity in the play and a shotgun blast stops the commotion: Agent 355, Yorick Brown, and Allison Mann dressed in gear claim to be from the and are there to retrieve the monkey.

Y: The Last Man #18

When Hero Brown and Yorick Brown were children, they had a grandfather in a who warned the boy Yorick about how a life dominated by women is “Hell on Earth”.

In the present day, Yorick rides on an with Agent 355. They are running from a posse of cowgirls, along with Allison Mann and Ampersand, who believe they are members of the Daughters of the Amazon. They escape, but Ampersand is suffering from wounds he got when he was almost abducted. Agent 355 is willing to go to a hospital to get medicine for the monkey, but is wary that Yorick will not behave and reveal that he is a man. Her former colleauge Agent 711 happens to live nearby and she wants him to stay with her until she returns.

They find her in a secluded cabin and Agent 355 leaves her journal and some instructions for Agent 711. After a brief discussion over literature, Yorick passes out. He wakes up tied to the ceiling: he has been drugged by Agent 711 and she is planning on subjecting him to.

Y: The Last Man #19

Agent 355 and Allison Mann have taken a wounded Ampersand to a hospital and left Yorick Brown at Agent 711's rural cabin, where she has drugged him, tied him up semi-nude, and is ready to flog him. Yorick comes out of a dream in a stupor to find Agent 711 berating him and demanding that he tell her his sexual history, including a traumatic homosexual experience as a boy and the guilt and shame he felt upon losing his virginity. He resists initially, but relents under the threat of more violence.

Agent 711 drugs him again and he awakens to find himself tied to a bed, where she insists that the two have sex. After her insistence and the emotional exhaustion of reliving the trauma, Yorick relents and admits that he wants to have sex with her in spite of his devotion to his fiancee Beth Deville.

Y: The Last Man #20

Yorick Brown has been subjected to psychosexual torture by Agent 711 and has finally relented to having sex with her. Disgusted, she climbs off his body and claims that sex is not what he really wants: what he wants is to die. She continues pushing his mind and body by holding him underwater and interrogating him until he admits that in the days after the gendercide, he came closing to killing himself, but he was drawn to find his loved ones. He is so overwhelmed by the ordeal that he asks Agent 711 to drown him. She holds his head under water and he has a brief vision that gives him the will to live. He punches her and runs upstairs to find that the two of them were in her cabin the entire time, even after she had claimed they were in an even more remote site.

Agent 711 explains that what he experienced was a suicide intervention that she devised based on reading Agent 355's journals. She needed to ensure that he had a will to live and would not be reckless and put himself in unnecessary danger.

A short time later, the two of them are reading books on her porch, when Agent 355 and Allison Mann return from the hospital with a rejuvenated Ampersand. The quartet head off to San Francisco to Mann's laboratory and after they wish Agent 711 a fond farewell, her home is invaded by a trio in s who demand the Amulet of Helene. When she reaches for her gun, she is shot several times and dies thanking them.

Y: The Last Man #21

In Arizona, the far-right Sons of Arizona burn an American flag and plot against the Union. Nearby, Agent 355, Ampersand, Yorick Brown, and Allison Mann walk in the desert toward Mann's backup laboratory in San Francisco. Agent 355 fires a shotgun to scare away some hungry dogs and it brings them to the attention of local gas station owner P. J., who immediately recognizes that Yorick is a man.

Back in her garage, she explains that the Sons of Arizona have violently cut off this territory from the control of the federal government, fueled by that the gendercide was a plot orchestrated by the feds. She offers them a truck from her fleet to avoid the terrorists. Agent 355 and Allison argue about which route to take until Allison storms out of the garage.

As they bunk up to sleep, Yorick has a nightmare that his fiancee Beth Deville is viciously killed by a monster and he is unable to save her. He is awakened by Agent 355 asking for Allison's whereabouts. Down the road, she has approached the Sons of Arizona to make a deal.

Y: The Last Man #22

Agent 355, Ampersand, Yorick Brown, and Allison Mann have entered territory held by the right-wing terrorists Sons of Arizona, but have been given a safe place to stay in P. J.'s garage. Allison has left her companions to try to reason with the group, asking for safe passage to her laboratory in San Francisco. They respond to her offer by repeatedly bludgeoning her with a rifle.

Agent 355 realizes that Allison has departed and leaves Yorick with a gun to defend himself while she goes to rescue her. Yorick and P. J. bond as she gives Ampersand a bath and they discuss their lives and dreams for the future. In the terrorist compound, Allison is violently interrogated and one of the members goes off to raid P. J. As Agent 355 frees her, Allison confesses that she thinks she cannot successfully clone the human race back from extinction. While they talk, several of the Sons of Arizona burst in and capture Agent 355.

Back at P. J.'s, there is a rustling and she goes to investigate, leaving Yorick back in the garage, where he hears a gunshot.

Y: The Last Man #23

In rural Arizona, Agent 355 and Allison Mann have been taken hostage by right-wing extremists the Sons of Arizona and one of the group's members has gone searching for Yorick Brown back at P. J.'s garage. When P. J. goes to investigate, she is immediately murdered.

Back at the terrorist compound, Agent 355 and Allison are brutally interrogated by the conspiracy theorist militia, who are insistent on overthrowing the federal government. They accuse the two interlopers of being government agents and set them up to face a before Agent 355 kills them all.

At the same time, Yorick faces off against the final terrorist after she has killed P. J. and he kills her to save his own life. When Agent 355 and Allison return for him, he lies and says that she and P. J. shot one another.

In Kansas, Ciba Weber gives birth to a son. The celebrations are cut short when Hero Brown comes looking for her brother.

Y: The Last Man #24

In California, Yorick Brown enters a church for solace. He encounters a woman living there who tries to defend herself, thinking that he is part of the Daughters of the Amazon. She incinerates some of his clothing and he reveals that he's the last living man. The two chat and he learns that her name is Beth and she was a flight attendant prior to the gendercide. While she's talking, he interrupts to confess that he killed someone.

She recounts her story of surviving the gendercide: she was on a flight and all of the pilot crew died spontaneously. The only air traffic controller she could contact believed that it was a kind of divine retribution, but she helped Beth land the plane hard on some grassland. The plane crashed killed almost everyone, leaving her and three other women as survivors. They talk through her survivor guilt and Yorick passionately kisses her. The two begin to have sex in the graveyard where they are chatting, but on the other side of the church, Daughters of the Amazon are on the prowl.

Y: The Last Man #25

Yorick Brown met Beth, a former flight attendant who now lives in a California church and the two immediately felt an attraction to one another and had sex in the churchyard. Yorick feels guilty for cheating on his fiancee Elizabeth Deville, but Beth counters that she may not be alive and if she is, he has no reason to think that she has tried to be true to their relationship since all other men died over a year and a half ago. The two embrace again and once they are inside the church and dressed, they are accosted by the Daughters of the Amazon, looking to raid. She gets into a theological debate with them and is confronted with renouncing God or dying.

Before she is killed, Yorick cuts off the lights and scares off two of the three invaders by claiming to be an apparition from God. Beth fights her way out of the third's grip, who also runs off with her compatriots. Beth and Yorick say good byes: she feels like she needs to attend to the church and graveyard and he has to get to a laboratory in San Francisco to see if he can help save the human race.

Meanwhile, in the Australian Outback, Elizabeth Deville and her colleague Margo come across an Aboriginal women's village which is not welcoming of them.