“During the “Great Transformation,” when men mutate into locusts, Max, a fisherman, tries to escape with his elderly mother.

The two are attacked by a small swarm of monstrous locusts and have a serious accident. However, a group of men save their lives. This group turns out to be a strange religious sect led by a certain Ford, a fanatical racist and former guerrilla. Max, living in this coven with his mother, will discover that Ford is convinced that this biblical-style plague will only be alleviated if the impure—homosexuals, foreigners and disabled people—are sacrificed. Ford's daughter, born from incest, is a disabled child and Ford wants to offer her as a sacrifice to assuage the plague.

Max, realizing what is about to happen in the fierce community, saves the little girl named Stella. In the escape, her mother is killed and the two try in every way to leave the city. Meanwhile, Ford and his men hunt him down like animals, intending to take back his little child as a sacrificial lamb.

Max and Stella's journey will be an absurd apocalypse, with loved ones turning into horrendous creatures and the rampant violence of a humanity that is increasingly nearer to total collapse.”

Locust: The Ballad Of Men #2

Scout Comics

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(W) Massimo Rosi (A/CA) Alex Nieto

Insanity and fear rule the day in this latest installment of Locust. In a series of flashbacks, we see how Max and Stella try to escape—leaving the ruins of the city behind. Meanwhile, in the present, the madness becomes more and more explosive near Long Island and Fort Tilden.