Y THE LAST MAN: MOTHERLAND (Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Goran Sudzuka, Jose Marzan Jr) - October 20/12

Even this close to the end this series is spinning its wheels like crazy. The first half of the book features a few impressive revelations, including a fairly unconvincing explanation for what caused the plague, but Vaughan devotes the final third to two seemingly inconsequential stories (the gravediggers and the artists), and it's impossible not to wonder just why they've been inclusion (besides, of course, the aforementioned wheel-spinning). **1/2 out of ****