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  <title><![CDATA[Y: The Last Man Vol. 9: Motherland]]></title>
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  <default-description>Featured in The New York Times and on National Public Radio,  Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and  unmotivated slacker who discovers he is the only male left in the world  after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y  chromosome.  Accompanied by his mischievous monkey, Ampersand, and the  mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find  his long-lost girlfriend and discover why he is the last man on earth. &lt;P&gt; This volume of the critically acclaimed series features Yorick and Agent  355 preparing for their ultimate quest to reunite the last man with his  lost love, while the person, people or thing behind the disaster that wiped  out half of humanity is revealed!</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2007</original-publication-year>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 11 17:28:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best volume in the series so far (there's only one left after this)! There's finally a lot of answers to questions that have been running through my head the entire series, and the scenes are full of so much excellent tension that it reads quickly. The last little bit was more of a side-story an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26997771">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 05 16:18:38 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 05 16:21:05 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished these up in a few measly days, which is the drag about AWESOME STUFF, unfortunately, that you rip through it like such a piece of hell.  Super stoked to read #10, though.  I think Britney Spears should play the fucked up Canadian ex-pop star, right?  Right?  Genius.  Angela, I can NOT bel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23807415">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43456259">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 18 08:47:53 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 18 09:12:39 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this volume we learn of a theory to explain why almost all people with the Y chromosome died.  This story adds lots of historical details that we were never told before and allows the author create an explanation that had not previously been hinted at.  This felt suspiciously like an explanation ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43456259">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49238750">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 14 08:50:35 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 10 08:15:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easily the best graphic novel I've ever read, in terms of sewing up character development and delving into the fractured souls scrambling about in a less than cheerful world.<br/><br/>Motherland is such a fantastic book, I have a hard time believing that it comes from the same series as Cycles, Pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49238750">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73401651">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Oct 04 08:59:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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, N...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73401651">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4401452">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[fans of Lost (it's what the book cover sez)]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 11 12:03:37 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 19 09:58:22 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brian K. Vaughan continues his first masterpiece, the story of a man and his monkey, which are the only two males of any species left on Earth after a catastrophic... something.<br/>&quot;Motherland&quot; continues the last book (<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Kimono Dragons" title="Kimono Dragons">Kimono Dragons</a>)'s emphasis on the family of Dr. Mann, the geneticist-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4401452">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43845942">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 21 13:54:06 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 21 13:57:38 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Uhm, what? <strong>What?</strong><br/><br/>Okay, I don't know what I was expecting since there is no, as far as I know, scientific probability that something can completely wipe off all XY carriers, and so the reason in this series has to be somewhat fantastical/science fiction-y.  Yet...<br/><br/>Oh, God, I was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43845942">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14863106">
  <user id="116652">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 07 17:34:39 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 08 23:35:14 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Graphic Novel. Includes the one where the bad guy explains his plan in intricate detail while menacing our restrained heroes; also <em>The Obituarist</em> marks the return of the supermodel/gravedigger from the first book, and <em>Tragicomic</em> is another one of those self-conscious fourth-wall-breaking things with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14863106">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44387565">
  <user id="1547058">
    <name><![CDATA[Jessica]]></name>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Rick Fedor]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 26 07:46:03 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 26 20:59:59 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>1</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This has been the best in the series so far, mainly because you can see some of the storylines coming together to a conclusion. Before this book, it was all so abstract and unknowing. I'm looking forward to concluding the series and hopefully getting some closure. And the women are finally not all p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44387565">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38250049">
  <user id="1640308">
    <name><![CDATA[Raina]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[adults, kelsie, gn-enthusiasts]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 20 14:33:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 24 14:02:37 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everyone in this series is barbie-gorgeous.  In fact, there are comments about how Yorick is average-looking, how another girl is a super-model, and you couldn't tell based on the illustration.   Maybe that's on purpose - some kind of body-image statement, and don't get me wrong - I enjoy the eye-ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38250049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43436226">
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    <name><![CDATA[sweet pea]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Tacoma, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 18 00:39:46 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 18 00:55:17 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[the plot unfolds quickly, yet tensely, with several of the subplots woven-in and resolved.  ultimately, though, the &quot;revelation&quot; about the supposed origin of the plague is so unsatisfying it makes me slightly less interested in the series as a whole.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="49281211">
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    <name><![CDATA[Amanda Lueck]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 15 11:57:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was intrigued by the human drama that swept through this volume, but more than a little let down by the explanations and loose ends that were kind of ties up. It was good just because I was so invested in the story, but ....]]></body>
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    <review id="72308371">
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    <body><![CDATA[This volume features Yorick and Agent 355 preparing for their ultimate quest to reunite the last man with his lost love, while the person, people or thing behind the disaster that wiped out half of humanity is finally revealed!]]></body>
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    <review id="73808440">
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    <name><![CDATA[Steve]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Morphogenetic fields? Rupert Sheldrake? Didn't think anyone still talked about that stuff. Still enjoying this series. Great interplay between the characters. Still can't understand why all the women who survived are smoking hot.]]></body>
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    <review id="67783455">
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing was as good as the previous chapters, but I don't like the explanation offered for the cause of the worldwide plague. Hopefully, the final book will close this story the right way.]]></body>
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    <review id="44620209">
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    <body><![CDATA[... or when you get to know what killed men... I was not impressed with the explanation, and with the ones in this volume I felt that too many cliches were used throughout this series.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first graphic novel I read and so enjoyed it. Except for the bittersweet ending. Don't want to give it away, but gee whiz, let the guy have some happiness. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fun diversion...in the end the series didn't quite meet the high expectations that I had when it first started.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 03 00:13:36 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book 9.  Still awesome.  Still makes me laugh out loud.  Still makes me say &quot;Oh my God.&quot;<br/>I'm almost done with the series.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i am already feeling sad that there's only one more book left.  but bring it on!]]></body>
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