Download Ex Machina Vol 2 Tag Brian K Vaughan Tony Harris The Wachowski brothers Books

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Product details Paperback 128 pages Publisher WildStorm (October 1, 2005) Language English ISBN-10 1401206263

Ex Machina Vol 2 Tag Brian K Vaughan Tony Harris The Wachowski brothers Books Reviews

• Collects issues 6-10
  
  In this volume, Mitch verbally supports school vouchers (without accomplishing anything) and gay marriage (by marrying a firefighter to a log cabin Republican, even though said marriage will probably get revoked by the NY State Supreme Court.) Mitch and Suzanne go on a date.
  
  In other news, an odd symbol which was on shrapnel from the device which gave Mitch his powers is being spray painted across NY, causing people to do strange, violent, homicidal things (consequently, there's more gore in this book than the last one). Another piece of shrapnel causes new songs from dead rock stars to play on a certain radio station. What does it all mean? Stay tuned (sorry).
• The story really starts to get juicy in this second volume. While the first volume laid the foundation of who our characters are and their backgrounds; in this volume, our hero/mayor finds himself facing moral and ethical dilemmas. Vowing to not use his powers in his position as mayor, our hero is left to handle a series of murders rapidly occurring throughout the city, which law enforcement, either cannot solve, or are covering up.
• I started reading Y The Last Man about two years ago and have been hooked on this guy's writing since. I've been trying to pick up as much of his work as I can find and this is one of the most satisfying ones I've come across. It presents a fairly unique situation, as far as comics go at least, involving a superhero who decided to move into politics.
  
  If politics bore you to death.... it doesn't really matter, the book is still a great read!
• 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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• What I like about Brian K. Vaughan's writing is that each of his series are so different. He's got Runaways over at Marvel, which is a super-hero story with a tone comparable to Harry Potter. At the same time, he's also got Y The Last Man Book which is a continuous sci-fi/adventure story spread over the course of ten volumes. Now with Ex Machina, he's created a political drama with a super-powered main character. As of now, each trade paperback seems to stand alone, telling a self-contained story, which is new for Brian K. Vaughan. The first volume was a great start and I liked this, the second book, even more.
  
  The story of this maintains the same formula as the last one. There are two things going on in Mayor Hundred's life at once, a political conflict and something to do with his superpowers. The political conflict is more interesting than last time, and shows Hundred step up as a champion for gay rights, all the while trying to convince the public that he, himself, is not homosexual. It's funny, touching, and has a really poignant end, but the real punch of this book is the plot that has to do with Hundred's powers. Someone from Hundred's past seems to be tracking him down and killing people in the process, using the symbol that was on the artifact that originally gave Hundred his powers. Flashbacks to past events really make this story a tragic one, and Vaughan's fans know that if there's one thing he writes well, it's tragedy... and comedy. Heck, he pretty much nails everything.
  
  8/10
• 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.