Motherland
2007 • 144 pages
Ratings42
Average rating4
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Ratings42
Average rating4
From back cover:
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 longtime protector Agent 355, their other traveling 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 fours before.
What they find, in a hidden lab in Hong Kong, is something that none of them expected -- something that could mean the end not just for the Last Man, but for any future his gender might have.
Series
9 primary booksY: The Last Man is a 7-book series with 7 primary works first released in 2003 with contributions by Brian K. Vaughn and Claudia Fliege.
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After a couple of volumes that I didn't quite enjoy as much, Y starts clicking again in this volume. We meet yet another man, Allison's father, who is convinced he is the cause of the plague due to his cloning experiments. His explanation of his guilt involves some fairly outre science concepts, Next volume's the last one - it'll be interesting to see if they can wrap up all the plot threads in time.
Extra star for bringing back Waverly, a grave digger featured in a much earlier story, as we see the larger US society starting to build itself back up again. I wish the series had had more stories like that, looking at other characters and situations in the same world, rather than just focusing on Yorick's tale.
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