A mysterious plague wipes out every male mammal—except one young man and his monkey. Sharp, humane, and endlessly inventive, Y: The Last Man races through a remade world where survival, power, and possibility are suddenly up for grabs.
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If you loved following Yorick, Agent 355, and Ampersand as they trek across a shattered America—facing Amazons, Pentagon remnants, and rogue scientists—then Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth will hit the same nerve. Gus, a boy with antlers, and the gruff Jepperd navigate a ravaged U.S. where desperate factions hunt hybrids, mirroring the way Yorick is pursued as the last man. The blend of bruising road adventure, covert labs, and sudden, tender bonds feels like the way 355 protects Yorick while everyone wants a piece of him.
If Agent 355’s steel, Dr. Allison Mann’s intellect, and even Hero Brown’s turbulent arc grabbed you, Butler’s Parable of the Sower centers that same fierce competence and moral friction. Lauren Olamina escapes a collapsing community and forges a new one on the road, making hard calls that echo 355’s ruthless pragmatism and Mann’s unsentimental focus on survival and knowledge. You’ll get that same feeling of watching women hold the world together while power structures crumble around them.
If Yorick’s deadpan magician gags, his awkward banter with 355, and Ampersand’s chaotic comic relief made you smile even as societies fell, Severance delivers that same mordant laugh-in-the-dark tone. Candace drifts through an apocalypse of routine, office culture, and cultish survival groups, cracking jokes that land like Yorick’s quips in the face of Amazons and armed roadblocks. It’s that bittersweet vibe: the world’s ending, but the punchlines still stick.
If you were hooked by Yorick and 355’s push to get to Dr. Mann’s lab—and later the drive to find Beth—Carey’s The Girl With All the Gifts builds similar momentum. Melanie and her escorts fight through hostile territory toward scientists who could change humanity’s fate, much like Yorick’s rare biology and Ampersand’s immunity become the key to understanding the die-off. The clashes with feral factions and the morally thorny science will feel right at home.
If the knife-edge politics in Y—Jennifer Brown managing a fragile government, the Israeli commander Alter Tse’elon’s ruthless gambits, and the way movements like the Amazons exploit chaos—kept you riveted, American War digs into the same dynamics. Sarat Chestnut grows up amid militias, black-ops handlers, and propaganda wars that echo the backroom deals and battlefield feints Yorick keeps stumbling through. It’s a grim, intimate look at how ideologies and intrigue warp lives.
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