After Saga, Runaways and Paper Girls, which I all loved, this is my fourth encounter with Brian K. Vaughan. It's off to a good start, introducing some cool characters and so far I'm really liking how the events are embedded in what is happening on a more political level. I cannot say that I immediately fell in love with Pia Guerra's artwork, but it's growing on me. There are some amazing covers by J.G. Jones (resembling the work of Alex Ross), though it's a bit hit-and-miss for me.

The volume begins with a moment from the everyday life of our protagonist, interspersed with events - in a war zone, a hospital, a political conversations, and a political assassination - whose implications are not immediately clear. At the end of the first issue, for no apparent reason all male members of the human and animal population drop dead - excluding our name-giving Last Man and his monkey. This event obviously is quite unfortunate, especially for life on Earth in the long run, and together with amazingly badass secret agent our protagonist sets out to get some explanation.

There are some great scenes in here already. I loved the brief get-together with his mother, an awesome scene involving a Republican mob of senators' wives. There are also groups of women, particularly a group modeled after the Amazons, starting a hunt on the last survivor of the patriarchy. And something with... cloning? An epidemic? A lot of interesting stuff, so I'm looking forward to the upcoming issues.

Rating: 3.5/5