Y: The Last Man #6 is an issue of the series Y: The Last Man (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 2003. It was published on December 18, 2002.
Synopsis for "Cycles (Part I of V)"
Agent 355, Ampersand, Yorick Brown, and Allison Mann bribe their way onto a train headed out of Boston to get to Mann's backup laboratory in California, in the hopes that they can discover what caused the mass gendercide of all males and how Ampersand and Yorick survived. They are attacked by the Freight Train Riders of America, a gang of violent hobos and have to jump off the train.
The Daughters of the Amazon are in pursuit, including Hero Brown, who has an emotional breakdown from having to kill a woman to prove her loyalty.[1] They encounter a Russian woman explaining in broken English that men from space are coming to Kansas and Victoria has her sent away, assuming she is crazy. Another woman reports seeing a man in a gas mask with a monkey and this leads Hero to suspect that her brother is still alive.
In rural Ohio, a woman comes across Yorick, lying knocked out in a field.
Appearing in "Cycles (Part I of V)"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Agent 355
- Ampersand
- Allison Mann
- Sonia (First appearance)
- Natalya Zamyatin (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Daughters of the Amazon:
- Becca (Single appearance)
- Hero Brown
- Joanne (Single appearance)
- Victoria
- Winona (First appearance) and another unnamed member of the Freight Train Riders of America (First appearance)
Other characters:
- Beth Deville (Mentioned only)
- Jesus Christ (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Earth
- Australia (Mentioned only)
- Russia
- Moscow (Mentioned only)
- Taiwan (Mentioned only)
- United States of America
- California (Mentioned only)
- Berkeley (Mentioned only)
- Los Angeles (Mentioned only)
- San Francisco (Mentioned only)
- Connecticut (Mentioned only)
- Massachusetts
- Kansas (Mentioned only)
- New York (Mentioned only)
- Ohio
- Marrisville (First appearance)
- Pennsylvania (Mentioned only)
- Washington, D.C.
- White House (Mentioned only)
- California (Mentioned only)
- Mars (Mentioned only)
Items:
- Amulet of Helene
Notes
- This issue is reprinted in Y: The Last Man: Cycles, Y: The Last Man: Book One, Absolute Y: The Last Man Vol. 1, and Y: The Last Man Omnibus.
Trivia
- Cultural references include:
- Häagen-Dazs
- Butch Cassidy
- National Medal of Science
- Presidential Fitness Test
- O.F. Mossberg & Sons
- Karate
- Kung fu
- Pilates
- Harvard University
- Women's colleges in the United States
- Florence Nightingale
- "The meek shall inherit the earth"
- Al Sharpton
- The Journey of Natty Gann
- Boxcar Bertha
- Little green men
- Soyuz