Ex Machina (6 books in series)
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review 1: Mayor Hundred is considering a giant leap in political terms, all the while trying to combat a President hating menace during the days before the Dubya is set to come to the big apple. The terrorist is a tour guide with a crush on The Machine, Hundred's retired alter ego. She is ...
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review 1: Spoiler warning. I really enjoyed this entire series. Well written. The story moves along well. Good tension. Good pacing. Characters change and grow. Right up until the final issue. The main character does a bunch of things that seem to go against the way he's behaved for the la...
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review 1: I get the meta angle of Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris writing themselves into the story, but then Vaughan, as a character, acknowledges that he hates when creators do that because it takes the reader out of the story. And this time is no different. It reads as self-indulgent a...
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review 1: I dug this one not just for that cover (which rules and attracted my interest), but it gives a personal quality to why The Great Machine mattered. This series does a good job of using 9/11 as a theme to only barely support the character when need be without exploiting it. It lend...
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review 1: So far I've only read two Brian K Vaughan series to completion, Y the Last Man and Ex Machina. Both left me disappointed at the conclusion. SEMI-SPOLIERVaughn explains exactly what this ending will be (and what Y the Last Man's ending was) in Hundred's monologue at the beginning ...
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review 1: Grown man topics is something you gotta deal with, No matter how many super powers you love it ain’t gonna equal up to this real shit....Let me just start by saying this is the best “Graphic Novel” I have ever read. I wouldn’t even call this a comic. I know that there is a diff...