Y: The Last Man
Goddamn, I love this series. I just devoured the fifth volume in one night, and looking back at volume one, I just have to recommend this series. It's a comic book from Vertigo written by Brian K. Vaughan and drawn by Pia Guerra, and in it, a plague suddenly, and violently, killed everything with a Y chromosome in it, that's about 3 billion men, except for Yorick brown and his pet helper monkey, Ampersand. The best part about this series is that it looks at the idea of the last man on Earth realistically. Planes crash all over the world, highways are completely jammed, famine and disease from corpses are real concerns, and a group of militant radicals, calling themselves Amazons, are running around praising Mother Earth for killing all the men--eventually attempting to kill poor Yorick. It's intense, but also very funny as well. I highly recommend this to everyone.
And no, Yorick doesn't try to get laid with every woman he meets. He actually has a fiancee out in the middle of the Australian outback he's trying to find.
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