Y: The Last Man #41 is an issue of the series Y: The Last Man (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 2006. It was published on January 4, 2006.
Synopsis for "Buttons"
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 foster care, 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.
Appearing in "Buttons"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Agent 1033 (Flashback only)
- Yorick Brown
- Rose Copen
- Allison Mann
Antagonists:
- Agent 355 (Flashback only) (Single appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Agent 355's father (Flashback only) (Single appearance; dies)
- Agent 711 (Mentioned only)
- Bill Clinton (Mentioned only)
- Jacqueline (Mentioned only)
- Monica Lewinsky (Mentioned only)
- Nancy Reagan (Mentioned only)
- Ronald Reagan (Mentioned only)
- Setauket Ring (Mentioned only)
- George Washington (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Papua New Guinea
- United States of America
- Michigan (Flashback only)
- Detroit (Flashback only)
- Washington, D.C. (Flashback only)
- Michigan (Flashback only)
Notes
- This issue is reprinted in Y: The Last Man: Paper Dolls, Y: The Last Man: Book Four, Absolute Y: The Last Man Vol. 3, and Y: The Last Man Omnibus.
- This issue introduces the woman who bore the 355 mantle before the woman we know as 355, in a flashback to "our" 355's past. We also learn that 355 was known as Agent 86 before inheriting the 355 mantle from her predecessor.
Trivia
- Cultural references include: