Daredevil Message Board

[DDmikeMN]

How is there not a thread about this yet? I couldn't have been the only one reading this series.

SPOILERS
I was very happy that if Y was going to end, that it ended in the way it did. I would've been upset with a twist ending because it seems like all of the best twist endings have been done. Knowing the ending now, it seems like BKV was writing in this direction the entire time.

In particular I enjoyed the imagery of the strait-jacket. When the plague hits, Yorick is trying to get out of the strait-jacket and then the last image of the series is him finally being free of the strait-jacket. So the direct correlation is obvious. BKV probably had that idea in mind when he started the series and never deviated from getting to that point, even after the series became successful. He decided he had 60 issues to tell and then got out.

It's also worth mentioning that, because of the end of the series, the deaths of 355 two issues ago and Ampersand this issue held water. Too often in comic books the publishers are more than willing to kill off characters because they know it will be a big deal when they bring them back. But since this series is ending, there isn't an opportunity to bring those characters back and their deaths are final as they should be.

All in all, a great series from first page to last. I'm sad it won't be in my life from month-to-month anymore. But if it has to end, ending while it's fresh and in a way that rewards you for paying attention the entire time is the perfect way to resolve it.
_________________
2006 Pull List Awards

[james castle]

I'll let you know when the trade hits.
_________________
JC

So why can't you see the funny side?
Why aren't you laughing?

[Neilan]

I had been wanting to check this title out for some time and then, for my birthday, a friend, who knows nothing about comics or what titles I am into, gave me a box of comics that she had bought off some kid's mom. When I opened the box and found that there were 46 issues of Y, I was incredibly psyched. One month and 8 comic book stores later, I had tracked down the remaining back issues. That was on a Monday. 2 days later, the last issue was released. I started the first issue that Sunday and finished the last one this past Saturday. Whew! What a great ride. This series lived up to everything that I had heard about it. I started out desperately wanting to find out the "real" cause of the plague and by the end, the cause seemed secondary to the story of Yorick, his friends, his enemies, and the fate of humanity.

[james castle]

Wow, really? Just picked up the last trade and I gotta say I'm a little disappointed. I really, really liked the last issue. Those running up to it? Not some much. Here's what rung false for me:

Small Thing: Why are the two women openly walking around with babies? Five years later shouldn't babies be a little...weird?

Big Things:

Beth: So they finally meet up and realize that time (and the world altering event of every man on earth dying) has made them different people? Um. Well. Obviously. Yes, this is realistic. My problem is that everything leading up to this wasn't. How is it possible that this obvious outcome didn't occur to Yorick before hand? In Preacher there is a really cool "True Love" thing between Jesse and Tulip. They love each other. It's magical and unrealistic and cool. I always felt like Y walked that line but not really. Then BKV just rips the Captian Obvious rug out and it's like "what?".

355: First: the crap about Yorick being in love with her rung crazy false with me. Especially the "I actually saw you in the vision" nonsense. Almost as bad as Bendis claiming the figures in NA #1 were/are Skrulls. I sort of buy the "we've been through so much together" thing. Or at least I would have if it was dealt with in a vaguely realistic fashion. Suddenly realizing it after 5 years? Sigh. Second: okay, so the kick ass, tough 355; the secret operative who is as tough as nails for the whole series gets picked off by a foe she didn't know was there? And while she's wearing a dress? Fail. Huge disservice to the character.

The Gap: So what happened between the second last and last issue? Altar was the only person chasing Yorick? Everyone just chilled out because he sat down? A neat thing about the series was that it had a political aspect. What would happen politically in such a situation. Who knows? Apparently Yorick sits down and things sort out.

Hero and Beth II: I actually rolled my eyes and sighed.

All that said, the final issue was touching. Amp's death was by far the most moving moment for me. The final issue as a whole was a nice way to end it and, yes, the final image is cool. Still, the series really lost steam and credibility for me by the end. Not that it's bad. It's just, "meh".

It ain't no Preacher.
_________________
JC

So why can't you see the funny side?
Why aren't you laughing?