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Finally reunited, the last two males on Earth - Yorick Brown
and his pet monkey Ampersand - are on a slow boat to China,
heading for a long-anticipated reunion with Yorick's lost
fiancee in Paris. But while the pair are getting ready to
cross two more continents with their long-time protector Agent
355, their other travelling companions - biochemist Dr. Allison
Mann and her girlfriend Rose - are nearing the end of a different
quest: finding out what caused the plague that wiped out every
other mammal with a Y chromosome four years before...
Motherland
draws a neat line under one of the story arcs as we say goodbye
to several of the regular characters. Dr Mann finds out who
is responsible (possibly) for the plague that wiped out all
the male mammals, and Yorick finds out that he is not the
last man on earth. However, it's just Yorick's luck that the
one remaining man has a death wish, and wants to take Yorick
with him.
As
with previous releases in this series, writer Brian K. Vaughan
succeeds in cramming more twists and turns in this one collection
than most other serials manage over several volumes. The fact
that you know that Vaughan puts the story before the characters
means that the reader is never sure where the plot will head
off to next. As Vaughan is not afraid to kill off, or leave
behind, some of the main characters, you can be sure that
there are very few predictable moments.
The
result is that a fairly basic sci-fi plot is elevated from
just "a good idea" to one that is much more than
simply the sum of its parts. One of the best comic releases
around at the moment.
Darren
Rea
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