Y: The Last Man #53 is an issue of the series Y: The Last Man (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 2007.
Synopsis for "The Obituarist"
Waverly leads a splinter group of Daughters of the Amazon who are not dedicated to a religious cult, but working and supporting one another in Virginia as gravediggers. She comes across prostitute Bobbi who joins them. The duo head into the sewers on a contract to find a woman whose husband died there, but they are called up for a special mission by the president: they need to dispose of the body of secretary Jennifer Brown.
When they get to her office, Waverly sees a photo of Yorick Brown and insists that she has seen him since the gendercide. She takes the job and that night, she discusses how to honor the assignment with Bobbi. She decides on a state funeral, with a horse-drawn carriage that has an American flag draped over her casket. As they leave, they see something miraculous: rats have survived the gendercide.
Appearing in "The Obituarist"
Featured Characters:
- Waverly (Flashback and main story) (Final appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Daughters of the Amazon: (Final appearance)
- Bobbi (Flashback and main story) (Final appearance)
Other Characters:
- Agent 355 (Mentioned only)
- Hero Brown (In a photograph only)
- Jennifer Brown (Flashback only) (Deceased)
- Yorick Brown (In a photograph only)
- Lupe (Flashback only) (Final appearance)
- Melinda (Flashback only) (Single appearance) (Behind the scenes)
- Margaret Valentine (Flashback only) (Final appearance)
- Victoria (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Australia (Mentioned only)
- United States of America
- Missouri (Mentioned only)
- Virginia (Flashback only)
- Arlington (Flashback only)
- Washington, D.C. (Flashback and main story)
- Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium
- Washington Monument
- Watergate Hotel (Flashback only)
Notes
- This issue is reprinted in Y: The Last Man: Motherland, Y: The Last Man: Book Five, Absolute Y: The Last Man Vol. 3, and Y: The Last Man Omnibus.
- This is one of only three issues of Y: The Last Man, where the title character, Yorick Brown, does not appear, except in a photograph.
Trivia
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