The first trailer for Y: The Last Man brings the classic comic to life Generally speaking, I feel like television is best at about five seasons.” “Without giving anything away, the comic is a great template, but the show will have its own twists and turns. “Five or six seasons is what I’m thinking,” she tells Polygon. But Clark says her ideal plan for the show would be more modest and controlled.

Showrunner Eliza Clark ( Animal Kingdom), tapped to manage the show after a series of false starts and crew changes, could potentially spin that story into a never-ending series, with Yorick wandering the world, while the freshly expanded and updated cast around him tells their own complicated stories about women vying for power or security. And it has plenty of material for a long-running series as well: The comics version of the story ran for 60 issues, eventually sprawling across decades and continents. It has an immediately grabby hook: What happens when every man in the world except one suddenly falls over dead? It has plenty of drama: As that last surviving man, Yorick, travels around the world, he meets an endless series of women who want to murder him, exploit him, or have sex with him.

Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s comics series Y: The Last Man was tapped for TV adaptation. With the radical rise in page-to-screen adaptations over the past decade, it’s no surprise that Brian K.

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