** spoiler alert ** While not as edge-of-the-seat as volume 2, I still had a difficult time putting this one down. Yorick's gang adds another member, and the Israeli's catch up to them. Some unexpected things with how the encounter turned out.

The secondary story in the last two issues came out of nowhere and I'm really curious if there will be any explanation regarding to how Ampersand ended up in the forest and what's up with the ninja. Then again... there's now a ninja.

That's because this series is awesome.

On a side note, the cover image makes me want to walk around, repeating, "Hey, who turned out the lights?" ( )

One of the better installments - the hope for the future, the desperate struggle to make it happen, the clash of characters in unexpected ways - all lovely! ( )

Ends on a hilarious note. I must read more... ( )

The plot thickens! I want MORE MONKEY. ( )

There's no doubt that Y: The Last Man gets better with each volume, and the weaknesses of the art itself start becoming less pronounced, while Brian Vaughn's story gets more and more interesting. There is a still a plethora of goofy dialogue (seemingly lifted from a really awful TV sitcom), and the core plot driver (the almost complete extinction of male mammals) remains undefined and weak as a story device - but it all works anyway. Vaughn has enough interesting ideas about how an emerging all-female society would function to allow the reader to suspend disbelief and keep on reading. So, onto volume four! ( )