Y: The Last Man #26 through Y: The Last Man #50

Complete listed story — includes the ending

Y: The Last Man #26

In Hero Brown's childhood, she played pretend with her little brother Yorick Brown, scaring him with the idea that a statue had come to life and named herself Queen Victoria. As a teenager, she is raped at a party by a college student. Once she graduates from college, she decides to forgo her study of literature to drive an ambulance and help others instead, to her father's consternation. On the day of the gendercide, her boyfriend Joe dies: he is the only man that has been good to her. Shortly after the cataclysm, she is eating cat food in a derelict grocery store when she is accosted by several Daughters of the Amazon. After a brief fight, their leader Victoria entices her to join them.

Several months later, she is held prisoner in Marrisville, Ohio, where a community of women have helped deprogram several other Daughters, but Hero proves to be too difficult to break: she has persistent hallucinations that Victoria still speaks to her and she is obsessed with finding her brother, the last man alive. She manages to escape and briefly reunites with her mother in Washington, D. C. before heading off to find him.

In the present day, she is on his tail and comes to a safe site in rural Kansas where astronaut Ciba Weber has recently come to ground and given birth to her son, Vladimir, Jr. and visions of Victoria tell Hero that the child has to die.

Y: The Last Man #27

On July 17, 2002, Yorick Brown went to a magic shop to buy an engagement ring for his girlfriend Beth Deville, but his proposal was interrupted later that day by a spontaneous gendercide that killed all males other than himself and his monkey Ampersand. Around two years later, he has been escorted across the United States of America by Agent 355 of the Culper Ring to a laboratory run by Allison Mann, a geneticist who hopes to restart the human race.

He takes a break from the experiments to visit a basketball game for his birthday and when he and Agent 355 leave, they are accosted by Anna Strong and her Setauket Ring: an offshoot of the Culper Ring who are obsessed with capturing the Amulet of Helene, which they think is responsible for the gendercide. Agent 355 and Yorick barely escape from them, but an agent manages to steal the ring he got for Beth years ago. The duo arrive back at Allison's home and Agent 355 insists that they have to abandon the laboratory, as the Setauket Ring are too dangerous and she can't ensure their safety. Allison protests, but as the two argue, Yorick falls violently ill.

Meanwhile, Hero Brown continues hunting for her brother, mere miles away and haunted by hallucinations of her former cult leader Victoria.

Y: The Last Man #28

Agent 355 and Yorick Brown narrowly escaped an attack from the Setauket Ring, losing Yorick's engagement ring, but returning alive and in one piece to Allison Mann's apartment, where Yorick immediately begins vomiting blood. Allison proposes that his engagement ring may have had a property that kept him and Ampersand alive. The ailing Yorick has a fever dream where he and his fiancee Beth Deville are in a science fiction world that and they are doomed to die. Allison insists that Agent 355 must retrieve the ring, no matter the danger.

Hero Brown continues looking for her brother, driven on by visions of her dead former cult leader Victoria. Hero is unaware the she is also being stalked herself by Toyota, directed by Dr. M.

Agent 355 raids the Setauket Ring and Anna Strong claims that the Amulete of Helene that Agent 355 has been tasked with preserving caused the gendercide. They argue and Strong says that she will exchange the ring for the amulet in one hour at a neutral site. She agrees and Strong destroys the Amulet to ensure that the gendercide curse cannot be reversed. Agent 355 attempts to leave, disgusted by the petty power plays of the Setauket Ring, but she is assaulted by Hero Brown.

Y: The Last Man #29

Hero Brown quest to find her brother Yorick Brown has lead to her interrupting a dispute between Agent 355 and the Setauket Ring. Hero mentions the existence of a living man and this intrigues Anna Strong. As the parties argue, Hero reveals that Anna murdered her colleague Agent 711, enraging Agent 355, who kills Anna's two companions and snaps Anna's neck, leaving her paralyzed.

Allison Mann cares for the ailing Yorick as Toyota attempts to abduct Ampersand. He has a dream of Agent 711 reminding him to fight for his life and comes to from a stupor. Allison pieces together that he has a simple infection and is not going to die. As she treats him, she has a revelation about how Ampersand and Yorick survived the death of all other males.

Y: The Last Man #30

Allison Mann has discovered why Ampersand and Yorick Brown are the only two males to have survived a global gendercide: material from the monkey's feces uniquely synthesized with Yorick's biology. As she explains the details, Agent 355 returns from her confrontation with the Setauket Ring with an injured Hero Brown in tow. Before Hero can explain herself, Yorick assaults her for killing Sonia. Yorick storms out as Toyota observes them, waiting for an opportunity to abduct Ampersand.

On the roof of Allison's laboratory, Agent 355 gives some photographs to Yorick: his sister has been following their every step across America, taking notes on how all of his friends and loved ones are doing. Agent 355 is convinced that she is recovering from the brainwashing done by the Daughters of the Amazon and she also helped her recover the engagement ring that Yorick plans to give Beth Deville. Hero still struggles with hallucinations of Victoria, whom she stabs to death in a vision while she's sedated.

Tokyo takes her chance to finally abscond away with Ampersand.

Y: The Last Man #31

Toyota has finally succeeded in stealing Ampersand. She has made it out of Allison Mann's laboratory, but Agent 355 can follow her using the same tracking device that Hero Brown followed to find them. Yorick Brown runs out to catch her and Agent 355 finds him, telling him not to go it alone. They catch up with the thief on the after Ampersand howls. Agent 355 and Toyota fight, with Agent 355 severely wounded. Hero Brown shows up just in time to save her brother's life. Toyota disappears with the monkey.

The Browns manage to drag the mortally-wounded Agent 355 back to the laboratory. The next morning, Hero mentions that she is taking a stool sample back to the hot suite in Kansas, where geneticists can see if they can synthesize a method for Ciba Weber's son to leave the safe environment. The siblings share a tearful goodbye and reconcile.

Allison, Agent 355, and Yorick follow the transponder to San Diego, where they find that Ampersand has been put on a ship headed to Yokogata, Japan, where Allison's mother lives.

Y: The Last Man #32

Toyota has abducted Ampersand and taken him to Japan, so Agent 355, Yorick Brown, and Allison Mann board a vessel in San Diego to follow after them. Agent 355 attempts to extricate Yorick from a crate, but she catches the attention of two of The Whale's shipmates, Harper and Pearl, who tie them up and bring them to Captain Kilina. She send away her underlings and surprisingly welcomes her stowaway to stay in her cabin, where they play board games and chat while Allison Mann gives basic medical services to the crew.

Agent 355 and Allison bunk up for the night and end up having sex while one of the crew kills another woman onboard and hails an Australian submarine.

Y: The Last Man #33

Aboard The Whale, Yorick Brown has been taken in by Captain Kilina, Agent 355 and Allison Mann have given in to desire for one another in their bunk, and Rose has killed another one and hailed an Australian submarine to come to them. Yorick awakes from a dream to and stumbles upon his two friends in bed nude. The awkward altercation is broken up by Harper accosting Rose after she finds her colleagues dead body. Agent 355 intervenes and a fight is broken up by Kilina, who puts Rose in the. Kilina fears that Rose has been spying and alerted a pirate ship that will come aboard The Whale and steal her humanitarian supplies.

Rose hailed the submarine H.M.A.S. Williamson, which has taken some damage, but is preparing to intercept The Whale. Kilina explains that piracy has flourished since the gendercide and the Australians in particular are adept at naval engagement. She continues to watch over Yorick while Allison goes to the brig to attend to Rose's wounds and understand why she was spying and leading them into danger. Rose explains that she has been spying to stop this ship's import of into her homeland of Australia.

Y: The Last Man #34

Allison Mann has discovered that Captain Kilina's ship The Whale is not on a purely humanitarian mission, but is smuggling into Australia and Rose Copen infiltrated to spy for the Australian Navy to intercept them. Rose explains to her that an epidemic of drug abuse is plaguing the port towns of her homeland and The Whale is spreading addiction where it goes. Harper and Pearl happen on the scene and imprison Allison and Agent 355, who has come looking for her.

In Captain Kilina's cabin, she and Yorick Brown are about to have sex when the H.M.A.S. Williamson led by Captain Belleville appears on the ship's sonar. Once she's heard enough, Agent 355 springs the women from the to stop a possible firefight. She is too late: Kilina has dropped.

Agent 355, Allison, and Rose get to the captain's cabin to retrieve Yorick, just as Kilina arrives and they debate the merits of Kilina's drug smuggling: in a world with so much suffering, some women choose to narcotize themselves to it to numb the pain. She argues that drug prohibition will only increase suffering and Yorick agrees, to the surprise of Agent 355 and Allison and the chagrin of Rose. Before Kilina can throw them all into the brig again, the Australians The Whale and prepare to board. They fire a that hits The Whale, leaving them all dead in the water.

Y: The Last Man #35

Agent 355, Yorick Brown, and Allison Mann have become caught in a firefight between Captain Kilina's drug smugglers on The Whale and a rapidly-advancing Australian submarine on their way to retrieve Ampersand in Yokogata. As Kilina lays passed out from a hit to the head, everyone else in her cabin looks to exit as soon as possible: The Whale has been hit by a torpedo and is going down. Kilina comes to and insists on going down with the ship as the others exit.

Once Agent 355, Allison, and Rose are in a life boat, Yorick drops them from The Whale and heads back to Kilina at the last minute, risking his life to save hers. Kilina is distraught about what she has done: now that a man exists and the human race could be saved, she feels like a criminal for having smuggled drugs into a world that isn't necessarily dying. She knocks him out with a blow to the jaw and when he comes to, he is aboard Captain Belleville's submarine. They have saved several of the women on The Whale, but Kilina was not found, alive or dead.

Yorick wants some time to process what has happened and Rose Copen visits Allison to offer her assistance in helping the wounded. She is having trouble adjusting after her spy mission and asks if she can tag along to Japan.

One month earlier, in Israel, Sadie presides over a of Colonel Tse'Elon, finding her guilty. After she pronounces her judgement, Tse'Elon has the guards kill her, proving how deep her loyal soldiers go in the military.

Y: The Last Man #36

In the Australian Outback, Beth Deville has stumbled across an Aboriginal village of women who have abducted her and her fellow anthropologist Margo. Beth sits tied to a tree and dreams of when she first met Yorick Brown in college and she broke down in tears discussing a break-up.

She has another recollection of when the gendercide first hit and devastated her small group of anthropology students. A racist colleague blamed the Aboriginals and ran off to survive on her own.

A third vision of her father's funeral when she was a girl leads into a remembrance of a time that she and Yorick had recently had sex on their one-year anniversary.

Another vision of Yorick's grandfather's funeral has his sister Hero Brown cryptically warning her about Yorick.

She is briefly awakened in the hot sun to two Aboriginal women: Mulya is skinning game while her unnamed fellow villager proposes that Beth has been sent to them for a mystical reason.

As Beth passes out again, she is reminded of a time that she and Yorick agreed to run away from their lives and meet in Paris. This dream turns into a brief superhero adventure where she saves him from a giant rampaging monkey and in the dream, he tells her that he is alive.

Beth awakens by the side of a road with no idea how she got there, but the sense that her lover is still out there.

Y: The Last Man #37

Agent 355, Yorick Brown, and Allison Mann have been given safe passage to Australia in order to find Ampersand by Captain Belleville after unknowingly riding on a drug smuggling ship. In Sydney, reporter Paloma West aggressively runs down rumors of a last living man and will pay handsomely to any woman who can give her a story. Unbeknownst to her, he is aboard the H.M.A.S. Williamson in a harbor not far from her.

Yorick wants to pause his mission to find Ampersand now that he is in Australia, where his fiancee Beth Deville was studying when the gendercide happened three years prior. Agent 355 relents over Allison's protests and gives him 24 hours to investigate if Beth is around Sydney or if he can otherwise get in touch with her. The two head to an address that Yorick has associated with her fieldwork and they find a message scrawled on the wall to Beth from her fellow anthropology student Margo and are immediately accosted by a gang of racist heroin addicts. Yorick escapes the fracas, but is spotted by a woman who tips off Paloma.

She catches up with the duo while they are searching for Beth or Margo and tazes Agent 355. She forces Yorick to strip nude and takes a picture of him, scoring the biggest scoop in years.

Y: The Last Man #38

reporter Paloma West has scored the biggest story of her career by getting a photo of Yorick Brown, proving that he is the last man on Earth, while Agent 355 lies unconscious at his feet and unable to protect him from having this secret revealed to the world. Her mind drifts off to a past mission 13 years ago with fellow Culper Ring operative Agent 1033 in. She comes to while remembering a lethal firefight and discovers that Yorick has been documented and that photos of him cannot be published without endangering his life.

While they search for Paloma, Rose Copen gets Allison Mann to break down her defenses as the two chat and fly a kite on the beach.

Agent 355 and Yorick find Paloma's hotel room after some interrogating and she gets the drop on them, pointing Agent 355's stolen gun at them. Agent 355 charges her, sending them off a balcony ledge on the 10th storey.

Y: The Last Man #39

Agent 355 and Yorick Brown have caught up with reporter Paloma West, who has taken photos of the last man on Earth and the confrontation has led to the two women tumbling off a tenth-storey balcony.

Aboard the docked H.M.A.S. Williamson, Rose Copen and Allison Mann have sex and Allison invites Rose to continue with her to Japan to recapture Ampersand from Toyota. After Allison is asleep, Rose tells Captain Belleville that she has infiltrated the group and is going to Japan.

Agent 355 discovers that Paloma has already sent off film proving that Yorick exists to her publisher. She escapes to catch a plane out of Australia, but Agent 355 and Yorick catch up with her. Agent 355 violently beats her to find out who has the film until Yorick stops her from killing Paloma by pointing a gun at her. He argues that showing up in her newspaper may actually result in the story having no credibility and will not expose him to any danger. In exchange for letting her go, Paloma gives Yorick a lead about Palmer's, a saloon that was set up by his fiancee Beth Deville's colleague Margo. Margo is there an explains that Beth had a vision and decided to go to Paris to seek out Yorick.

One month later, in Washington, D. C., Jennifer Brown gets a copy of a newspaper with a photo of her son on it, confirming that he's safe moments before she is gunned down by Yedida Tse'Elon.

Y: The Last Man #40

Hero Brown has traveled to Cooksfield, California to give a letter from her brother Yorick Brown to Beth, only to find that he has impregnated her. Due to all other men being dead for over three years, Beth has hidden the pregnancy that is about to come to term. She invites Hero into the church where she lives and the two women are immediately confronted by Sister Lucia Ober and her.

The two get abducted and are taken to a remote castle run by Lucia where they are held prisoner. She has been monitoring Beth for some time now and believes her child is a miracle from God and destined to be the next Pope. An reveals the unborn child to be a girl. Lucia is disappointed and asks how she became pregnant. Hero makes up a story about the Daughters of the Amazon managing to steal away a few sperm samples. Lucia apologizes for the disturbance and send them on their way.

Hero invites her to continue on her journey to Kansas, where Beth can get proper medical care.

Y: The Last Man #41

Yorick Brown and Allison Mann come running from a jungle in Papua New Guinea to ask for Agent 355 and Rose Copen to save them. They have come across a group of convicts who have resorted to cannibalism and are chasing them as fresh meat.

Agent 355 is stupefied and reminded of her youth. In Detroit, 25 years ago, her father was a tailor and he loved her very much, but the young girl was devastated one day to have her principal pull her aside from class and tell her that her entire family died in a car crash. She enters, where she deftly and violently defends herself against racist teens. She is approached by a woman who wants to recruit her to the Culper Ring, an elite group of spies.

She begins her training and learns how to harness her rage and innate fighting ability. She gets assigned to Agent 1033, who will train her in the field.

Once she is a full member as Agent 86, she has to stop her former mentor from assassinating the president. She fulfills her duty and saves him by killing her.

After she remembers this, she is emboldened to save her friends.

Y: The Last Man #42

Five years ago, Dr. M carried out experiments on s in Yokogata, Japan with United States of America-based geneticist Allison Mann. While shipping the experiments back and forth, two capuchins got out of their cages and the handlers at JFK International Airport randomly shipped them out: one was the experiment and the other was Ampersand, a that was to be trained by Yorick Brown. The man and monkey formed a bond traveling across America after the gendercide left them the only living males.

Today, Yorick is on a mission to retrieve Ampersand from Doctor Matsumori, accompanied by Allison Mann, government-issued bodyguard Agent 355. He has been abducted by Toyota and is presently docking in Yokogata and he's just escaped from his captor.

Y: The Last Man #43

Ampersand has arrived in Japan and escaped his captor Toyota. Agent 355, Bonny, Yorick Brown, Rose Copen, and Allison Mann have also been in pursuit and stop off to see a show in Yokogata before Agent 355's tracking device picks up his signal in Tokyo. Allison insists that she wants to visit her mother's laboratory before leaving, so the party splits up with her staying alongside Rose, as Agent 355, Bonny, and Yorick head to Tokyo.

Toyota is also on the hunt for Ampersand, brutally killing whomever she needs to in order to find him.

Allison and Rose find the laboratory on fire and Agent 355 and Yorick discover Ampersand in a night club where they are greeted by a man.

Y: The Last Man #44

In Kansas, Hero Brown escorts Beth and her newborn, Beth, Jr. to a safe site where they can be given proper medical care and Hero is reunited with Natalya Zamyatin. She has a sample of Ampersand's stool and hopes that a drug can be developed to help Ciba Weber and her son exit the safe house where they have been living for a year.

In Tokyo, Agent 355 and Yorick Brown discover that the man who greeted them in a night club is actually a lifelike robot. They are attacked by You, a guard at the club who protects these lifelike sex robots and was concerned that Agent 355 and Yorick were sent by Epiphany, a former Canadian pop star who has turned head of the. She has Ampersand and the only thing she wants more than the monkey is Yorick.

Meanwhile, Allison Mann stands at the smoldering remains of her mother's laboratory and Rose Copen urges her to continue looking for her, while Toyota stalks them. The duo go to Allison's mother's greenhouse, where Rose is stabbed by Dr. Matsumori.

Y: The Last Man #45

Night club owner You has directed Agent 355 and Yorick Brown to Ampersand's location: he is being held captive by boss Ephiphany, who is willing to grind up the monkey's penis to trade for drugs. Agent 355 and You plan to raid Epiphany's stronghold and get back the monkey.

In Yokogata, Allison Mann has found her mother, but she defended herself by running a sword through Rose Copen. Fortunately, Dr. Matsumori is the world's greatest surgeon. As the two women set about to save Rose's life, the mother references that she knows that Yorick Brown is alive. America's president Margaret Valentine informed her shortly after the gendercide and she directed Yorick to her daughter at the time. They bring Rose to and she confesses that she is a spy sent by Captain Belleville. Allison refuses to believe it, just as Toyota gets the drop on her.

Agent 355 and You get deep into Yakuza headquarters, but they are captured and You reveals to Epiphany that she knows where the last man is. Yorick is captured by the Yakuza as well and imprisoned in a hotel room with Agent 355, who has an emotional breakdown at the cruelty of the world.

Y: The Last Man #46

Locked in a hotel room and awaiting execution by boss Epiphany, Yorick Brown recounts killing a terrorist in self-defense to Agent 355.

In Doctor Matsumori's laboratory, Toyota holds a sword to Allison Mann's throat as Rose Copen struggles to survive. She is looking for Ampersand, but none of the women there know that Epiphany has him. Frustrated, Toyota abducts Doctor Matsumori and takes her to Hong Kong, telling Allison that if she wants her mother back and to learn the origin of the gendercide, she will find her at a bioethics institute there.

Agent 355 and Yorick bond in their hotel room, discussing their personal lives as You kills Epiphany's number one and ruins her criminal empire by broadcasting a racist rant from the drug-addled musician. She reunites Yorick and Ampersand, so he is now free to pursue his lover who has gone to Paris to find him.

You gives Yorick the option to make a phone call with one of the few functioning phones in the world, and he calls his sister to explain how he's going to France, but the call is cut off, when the compound they live is invaded by rogue Israeli military elements.

Y: The Last Man #47

Allison Mann reflects on her life: the tempestuous relationship between her parents, moving to Los Angeles as a child, and being a rebellious teen. She is disowned by her father and goes through a difficult break up. At Harvard University, she learns that her father is engaged in dangerous and cutting edge genetic experiments. She gets a graduate student to help her experiment by cloning herself and bringing her own clone to term.

In the present day, she is on a ship with Rose Copen and experiences severe vaginal bleeding, which she thinks may be a side effect of her work.

Y: The Last Man #48

Two months ago, Yedida Tse'Elon led a raid on the biological safe house that kept astronaut Ciba Weber and her son Vladimir, Jr. safe. Her life has led to her being a ruthless and dedicated soldier, from learning the fragility of human life from her sister Rachel, being betrayed by a boy as a youth, and her aggressive rise in the ranks of the Israeli military. Today, she believes she is the only one who can keep the last man on Earth safe and will not stop until she finds him.

Y: The Last Man #49

Yorick Brown has another dream of his fiancee Beth Deville and it implies that he cannot save or reunite with her. When he awakens, he sees Bonny flirting with Ampersand, as Rose Copen comes to from a stupor. He explains that Allison Mann needs the monkeys to reproduce so she can attempt to use their offspring to save the human race. Once the group arrives in Hong Kong, she will have access to a laboratory and Agent 355 can escort Yorick to France, where he can reunite with Beth.

Agent 355 and Allison shop and Agent 355 learns that Allison's mother is in trouble with Toyota and that Rose is a spy. Agent 355 is incensed and runs back to their safehouse to protect Yorick. Allison doubles over in pain, which she believes is from her genetic engineering experiments that involved her getting pregnant with her own clone.

In New York City, Hero Brown and Natalya Zamyatin protect Beth; Beth, Jr.; Vladimir, Jr.; and Ciba Weber from the Daughters of the Amazon in a firefight. The cult wants to kill Vladimir, Jr. and Yedida Tse'Elon wants him for Israel.

The group in China reconvenes, and Allison reveals her plans to clone 200 males, starting with Yorick, and the rest harvested from the DNA of dead human males. She also overhears Rose deserting her post as a spy and She later collapses as the cumulative side effects of her earlier attempt to clone herself have now become impossible to hide. As she collapses, she begs them to take her to Hong Kong for treatment.

Y: The Last Man #50

Allison Mann has severe complications from her previous genetic experiments and is en route to Hong Kong, where she can get treatment and also meet up with her mother, who has been abducted by Toyota, a ninja working for an unknown actor who wants access to Yorick Brown, the last man. The moment they arrive at a hospital, Toyota drugs them with s. They wake up restrained in hospital beds to find Allison's mother walking freely, but she explains that she is also captive to someone else: Allison's father, who somehow managed to survive the gendercide. Not only has he lived, he also also made several clones of his daughter using genetic material he harvested 25 years ago with his colleague Ming. She also tried to incubate clones in her womb, but she died during the process and Allison would have died of uterine tumors had she not been subject to an emergency while unconscious.

Lieutenant-General Tse'Elon trails two children born since the gendercide in a stolen Israeli battelship: one is a boy and the other is the offspring of Yorick. One of her crew comes to her to explain how she doubts the veracity of a photo that they are using for guidance and Tse'Elon violently lashes out at her.