Author: David Schulner, Aaron Ginsburg, and Wade McIntyre
Publisher: Image Comics
Rating: WORTHY!
Art work: Juan José Ryp.
Colors: Andy Troy (no reliable website found)
I began this thinking it was the last in the series and thrilled that the library had all four volumes in at once, but when I reached the rather cliff-hanger ending, I have to wonder if there are more volumes, but I have no word on that as of this blog. This story takes off where three left it - with the clones and their clone ninja escort making its way to an airlift which is two days' hike away. Eric the tattooed clone refuses to travel to the island.
The rest of them stop at a cabin in the forest and Amelia is shot. Feeling bad that every single character in this series has been white to this point, the writer or artist or both made the two villains in the cabin black and clone-haters. None of this massive universal hatred of clones was ever explained in this series. Amelia recovers from her gunshot wound and Luke lets the clone haters go - only to discover that they've been intercepted and slaughtered by one of the ninjas.
Meanwhile Mrs K joins the psycho reverend and ends up kidnapping Amelia and Luke's baby even though she's supposed to have reformed. This does not end well for Mrs K. Eric joins the clone haters as a spy. This is how he discovers the kidnapped baby and manages to rescue Eva and return her to her mom. The plane leaves with out Amelia supposedly by her choice, we're told.
Everything seems to have worked out fine until the clones arrive at the island, and in a series of views to which we're party but to which the clones are not, we discover that there's something rotten in the state of Japanese private islands. To be continued? Who knows? This series has been optioned for TV, but given that it took seven years to get this thing from conception to print, who knows how long it might be before - or even if - a TV show appears? Orphan Black does provide a precedent for clone shows, and The Walking Dead provides one for the rampant violence. We'll have to see. I recommend this series as a whole as a worthy read, although some parts of it are not that great.
