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Y: The Last Man writer and co-creator Brian K. Vaughan praises the comic’s television adaptation, saying it’s even better than the source material.
At New York Comic Con 2021, Y: The Last Man writer and co-creator Brian K. Vaughan offered high praise for FX on Hulu’s television adaptation, saying that the live-action series is even better than its source material.
Vaughan — also known for such comics as Saga, Paper Girls and Runaways — made a surprise appearance at the Y: The Last Man panel at NYCC. “I’m here, humbled to be before you guys. I just, I cannot believe how excellent this show is,” he said. “Yes. Hate to say, that it elevates the source material is such an understatement. I just think it has transformed it and yeah. I remain proud of the comic, even though I was a dopey, little kid when I wrote it and it was a proverbial, another time.”
Vaughan was also sure to thank his Y: The Last Man co-creator Pia Guerra, the artist of the original comic. “I was so grateful to have Pia Guerra there at my side,” he said. “Comics is a really collaborative art form. Y wouldn’t be alive without Pia, similarly, and I think when it came time to do this, we were like, ‘We want to find more collaborators who will take this baton and keep running with it in other places we never could have dreamed.’ And so, it’s wild. I just had a meeting with you [showrunner Eliza Clark], and I was like, ‘Eli, please make it your own, make it better,’ and I didn’t think you would make it THAT much better.”
“I was incredibly starstruck because it’s my favorite comic book and I had to, like, get over that. The first 15 minutes of meeting you was just me sweating,” added Clark, who — in addition to serving as Y: The Last Man‘s showrunner — wrote three of Season 1’s episodes, including the premiere and the finale.
Said Vaughan, “You’re very sweet. But it is, it’s not just how incredible the characters are, they just feel like platonic, the best possible, ideal versions of Yorick, of 355, of Dr. Mann, but it’s the new characters that have come in. I just, I can’t imagine the show without them. I want to go back and redo the comic and just put them all in. It’s just, it’s breathtaking, so I just wanted to say thank you to you all.”
Written by Vaughan and illustrated by Guerra alongside Goran Sudžuka, Paul Chadwick and inker Jose Marzan Jr., Y: The Last Man was originally published under DC’s Vertigo Comics imprint, running for 60 issues from 2002 to 2008. The comic follows Yorick Brown (played by Ben Schnetzer in the adaptation), who — save for his monkey companion, Ampersand — is the sole survivor of a mysterious plague that instantaneously kills every person with a Y chromosome on Earth. Y: The Last Man was critically acclaimed, winning three Eisner Awards, including the honor for Best Continuing Series in 2008.
Clark’s TV adaptation of Y: The Last Man premiered on FX on Hulu earlier this year on Sept. 13, with its 10-episode first season slated to conclude on Nov. 1. It was recently confirmed that FX on Hulu would not be ordering a second season. The cancellation reportedly had nothing to do with viewership numbers, instead coming down to the fact that the already-extended options on certain cast members had expired. Y: The Last Man is currently in search of a new home for a potential Season 2.
New episodes of Y: The Last Man air Mondays on FX on Hulu.
Source: New York Comic Con
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