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Nearly four years after a global plague killed every male mammal on Earth, the two exceptions—Yorick Brown and his monkey Ampersand—arrive in Japan. Armed with a government operative and a biochemist, Yorick tracks the abductor to Tokyo, where he must navigate Yakuza ties, gangsters and a pop‑star‑run maze to recover Ampersand, whose body may hold the key to humanity’s survival. Meanwhile, Dr. Allison Mann faces a hostile family reunion that uncovers a startling revelation about the Gendercide, offering a possible path to solve the mystery behind the mass extinction.
First publish date: 2006
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels/Graphic Fiction
Authors: Brian K. Vaughan
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