Y: The Last Man # 51 - Motherland: Part Three
is an issue published by Vertigo that was released on 1 / / 2007Plot Summary
SPOILERS Scene 1 : Fifteen Years ago. Allisons father catches Toyota trying to steal from him. After learning she has no family, he offers to have her trained so she could be his security agent, and protect him. She agrees for a million yen.
Scene 2 : Present Day, Toyota has 355 and Rose chained up from the cieling. Her and 355 have a verbal tit for tat when Rose asks for her to be killed first. Toyota does not seem to have a problem with that.
SCENE 3 : Back at Dr. Manns Lab, Allison can not believe she is looking at her father, Yorrick is looking for his pen to escape the bed straps he is tied with.
Scene 4 : We see that 355 has Yorricks pen, all the while Rose has been distracting Toyota, she has been trying to escape. When she does she asks Toyota to please surrender, she is tired of killing people. Toyota doesn't listen, and 355 grabs her and jumps out the window.
Scene 5 : Back at the lab The elder Dr. Mann is explaining that he was the one that sabotaged Allisons expirement, and caused the plaugue, and that Ampersand is actually his monkey.
SCENE 6 : Toyota and 355 have landed a couple levels below the window and begin to fight with Naginatas. Toyota proves to be better as she disarms 355 pretty quickly.
SCENE 7 : Allisons Father explains that at the same moment his first clone drew breath, all the men in the world died. Men have been a necessary evil, once they were no longer necessary nature righted itself. He then turns on a morphine drip, knocking Allison out, and tells Yorrick the two of them need to talk.
SCENE 8 : 355 asks Toyota why she is doing this, Toyota responds by telling her that Allissons father is going to clone her, effectively making her immortal. 355 says she is glad, it makes her feel better about having to kill her.. Toyota charges her, 355 sidesteps and rams the pointy end of a stick into her ear.
SCENE 9 : Dr. Mann pulls out a syringe and tells Yorrick that since his daughter and ex wife can continue his work, it's time for them to go.
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Motherland: Part Three
Now this was the one we have been waiting for. Ever since Toyota first made her presence known, you knew that her and 355 were going to have it out, and this issue delivers. Not only does it deliver a good fight, but basically the answers to every question you could have about the plague. I really enjoyed that. Of course the explanation could never stand up in real world sciencee, but for comic books, hey it does just fine in explaining everything. I think Brian K. Vaughn has done a very good job of finding a voice for each character and making sure the dialogue has run true for each of them. Well done in all ways possible.
