»Ex Machina, a Brilliant Comic Book Series«
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 "I am sensible how far I should fall short of effecting all the reformation which reason would suggest and experience approve were I free to do whatever I thought best; but when we reflect how difficult it is to move or inflect the great machine of society, how impossible to advance the notions of a whole people suddenly to ideal right, we see the wisdom of Solon's remark that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear, and that all will be chiefly to reform the waste of public money and thus drive away the vultures who prey upon it, and improve some little upon old routines. [...] --Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 1801. ME 10:235 I just finished reading the second book collection of the comic book series Ex Machina , written by Brian K. Vaughan and drawn by Tony Harris, and I have to say that this is truly an amazing series. The hero's name is Mitchell Hundred, but that's "Mayor Hundred" to you as he is currently the mayor of New York City in an alternate-present storyline. Hundred's fame had its origins in an accidental explosion he was exposed to during his time as a civil engineer for NYC. The explosion was mysterious in origin and left him with the ability to literally talk to machines, and they obey his commands. Hundred then had a career as a jetpack-wearing superhero known as "The Great Machine," a name he took from the above quote by the US president Thomas Jefferson. The climax of The Great Machine's career came when he stopped the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001, after which he retired and ran for mayor. Hundred's superhero career is all told in flashbacks, and he now has all the problems of a contemporary politician to deal with along with some lingering superhero issues. And the superpower comes in handy for someone with political enemies, as demonstrated in book one, "The First Hundred Days" when Hundred stops a potential assassin with a gun by telling the gun to "JAM," and the gun misfires! The second book, "Tag," involves a series of gruesome murders, a suicide, and an animal mutilation in the New York subways, all linked with a mysterious glyph that is in turn linked to the explosion that gave Hundred his powers. Brian K. Vaughan currently writes several titles, including the famous Y: The Last Man , which has just put out its sixth book-length collection and is still going strong. I have read this one too (except for book six), and it is incredible as well, if not as action-packed and realistically-drawn as Ex Machina . Tony Harris's drawings for Ex Machina are uniquely realistic and apparently drawn using models to get the poses and expressions right. I would recommend anything written by Vaughan, but especially Ex Machina for its action, humor, and political drama. Vaughan has a blog here:  And here are some panels and splash pages from Ex Machina ! 
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