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Ex Machina TP Vol 02 Tag (Ex Machina (Collections)) [Paperback]

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7 Sep 2005 Ex Machina (Collections) (Book 2)
Written by Brian K. Vaughan Art and cover by Tony Harris & Tom Feister The second volume of the Eisner Award-nominated series, collecting issues #6-10! What forced Mayor Hundred to make one of the most controversial decisions in the history of New York politics? Featuring an introduction by the Wachowski brothers (The Matrix) and a new cover by Tony Harris!

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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: DC Comics (7 Sep 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1401206263
  • ISBN-13: 978-1401206260
  • Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 16.8 x 0.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 354,830 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"If millionaire playboys and nerdy highschoolers can be superheroes, why not the mayor of New York? ... Terrifically intriguing."

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This continues the same format begun in the first volume with the pre and post-election storylines alternating every few pages. You have clear headers so you don't get confused but you have to try and keep them separate in your head. It is defiantly worth flicking back to the first volume to remind yourself who is who.

This contains a complete story with a resolution at the end and also some tantalising titbits of the bigger picture. Plus a huge dollop of politics, ethics and New York City history which you should really take the time to Google - but you probably won't

The art is still great with a lot of effort put into differentiating the scenes through strong colour and lighting work. There are a couple of sketch pages at the back allowing you to see what a talent the artist has for pencil shading which goes unseen in the colour pages.

Another great nugget of originality to chew on. Thumbs Up!
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4.0 out of 5 stars The trials of Mayor Hundred 25 April 2013
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Furthering the story from vol. 1 readers can expect more of the same, seemless transitions between Mayor Hundred's former days as The Great Machine and his tribulations as Mayor of New York.
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Amazon.com: 4.4 out of 5 stars  18 reviews
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5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant comic. 30 Oct 2005
By Owen Hunter - Published on Amazon.com
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Wow. If you've ever read any of the more cereberal comics that have been published over the past couple of decades, this one has the potential to be one of the best ever made.

The premise is fantastic, and long overdue. In a slightly altered future, a civil engineer named Mitchell Hundred finds a device under the Brooklyn bridge that malfunctions, giving him the ability to speak with machinery. With the prodding of an idealist friend, he takes up a costume and fights crime under the moniker, 'The Great Machine'. Jump forward, and due to his preventing the second world trade center tower's destruction, he has managed to win his bid for election as mayor of New York city.

But though the premise is great, it is not what makes this a great comic. Vaughan proved his chops with his previous comic, but the setting of it did seem to restrict him as a writer. Ex Machina could have easily played out its hook, but the characters are so brilliantly realized that you fast forget why you picked it up and start loving it for entirely different reasons.

Hundred himself is fantastic as an unlikely mayor of New York. And what makes him so interesting is that he is not the man for the job, and Vaughan realizes this. Hundred is a wonderfully naive politician, tackling problems that others wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. He leans on his staff constantly, despite the fact that they are heavily devided on every political issue. He wants to use the power of office to help people, but the beginning of the series shows him getting a hard lesson in the desires of the public. And though he continues to overcome the problems that have come his way, the reader can sense something even more dangerous on the horizon, be it political or paranormal.

The art is clean yet emotive. Tony Harris does an excellent job with what is largely a talking heads affair. Yet he manages to bring excellent setting and mood into all parts of the comic, even if they aren't expected. And when action does occur, he's still on the top of his game. Most of all, it's an extremely modern looking book, from the front cover to the interior panels.

Book 2 continues soon after the conclusion of the first collection. It delves more into the mystery of Hundred's powers, and sees him address gay marriage, a friend from his superhero days, and murderer on the loose in the city.

The book is smart, witty, and stunningly contemporary. And there is so much more than meets the eye, in terms of what the book is actually about. I hope Vaughan realizes what he has here, because something this good might not come around again for a long time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Vaughan's Political Sci-Fi Continues To Impress 19 May 2006
By Andrew - Published on Amazon.com
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In the next five issues of Ex Machina, Brian K. Vaughan's story of a superhero-turned-mayor of New York City, Mitchell Hundred's administration has to contend with more hotbed political issues as well as some "unnatural" occurreneces that are connected to the device that gave Hundred his powers.

After a brief, and fairly unsuccessful, stint as the superhero The Great Machine, Hundred hung up his tights and jetpack and became New York City's mayor. A strange device gave him the ability to "communicate" with machines, but while he tries to put that life behind him in his new political career, Hundred can't seem to get away from his old life.

Hundred's political career is put in jeopardy when he decides to not only endorse, but perform a gay marriage between the brother of his Deputy Mayor and his conservative boyfriend. If that weren't enough, a mysterious symbol that was found on the device that gave Hundred his powers has been showing up throughout the city, and it is having dire effects on people who stare at it for too long. Along the way, we see flashbacks of Hundred's life during his campaign and we see his history with the NSA.

While the explanation for events at the end was a little confusing, this is still a solid collection. Vaughan can't seem to go wrong as there is nothing by him that I've read that I haven't liked. Runaways, Y: The Last Man, Ultimate X-Men, and this have all been great reads.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Continued excellence 28 Nov 2005
By K. W. Schreiter - Published on Amazon.com
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This second trade paperback met my lofty expections with its outstanding plot, characters and artwork. Fulfills the hype and highly recommended. I'm eagerly awaiting Volume 3 and tempted to buy the individual issues until then.
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