This Motherlands exclusive blends sci-fi action with familial resentment
Writer Si Spurrier has built a career on off-kilter, high-concept science fiction stories, and for his latest Vertigo title, Motherlands, he’s put a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship at the core of the plot. Tab is a bounty hunter following in the professional footsteps of her elderly mother, Selena, a former celebrity who is starved for the glory of her younger years, and after years of estrangement, they’re working together to track down Tab’s brother, who abandoned the family to pursue a life of multidimensional crime. Tab and Selena are hot on Bubba’s trail, but the more time they spend together, the more Tab remembers about how awful her mother treated her in the past. She wants Selena to suffer, which is why she immediately shot Bubba’s psychic decoy in the head at the end of last issue, letting her mother think that her baby boy was just killed by his sister with no remorse.