My 500th book!!!! I BEAT MY GOAL!!!!!!! I actually wanted to pick a 500th book that I almost knew for sure I'd love! I go into my Nerd Cave this morning and look around at my 100+ graphic novel collection (I know. Good thing I married BEFORE I started really collecting) and finally decide on Ex Machina. It's one of the only Brian K. Vaughan titles I haven't finished and he is my favorite author of all time. SO here we go, volume 3! Hundred is dealing with a few issues in this book. First up is l...

*flails* For those that don’t know, this is my favourite graphic novel series. I have no idea what it is about these books that I love, but love them I do. The art style is realistic and just stunningly coloured. It isn’t as gorgeous as the Amulet series, but something about its simplicity and believable characterization makes me happy. The story follows Mitchell Hundred – an ex-superhero vigilante with the ability to communicate with machines who is the current mayor of New York City. Even thou...

This remains a great series. This reminds me of an HBO series at its best. The different subplots and odd characters and weird situations. This is really a political comic with some superhero moments tossed in, and it's amazing how well that works.

Still no return from the tangent that vol. 2 took of on. This volume delves a little into others who have similar powers and their reactions to it. The GoodInteresting takes on how other peoples "powers" could or would manifest.Still some solid characterization of the mainstays throughout.The BadWe are still no closer to finding out what the mysterious Alien writing is or what are the true origins of Hundreds powers.He now has an arch nemesis, which is a tad contrived because I thought the reaso...

The issues keep mounting for Mitchell. Marijuana legalization, a bizarre series of firefighter burglaries, the 2003 blackout, and mask wearing (not the 2020 kind) all force his hand. We also learn that two people close to Mitchell are trying to make him give up mayoral duties and go back to being the Great Machine. We’re closer and closer to the inevitable boiling point of his superhero and political lives.Speaking of which, the blackout story is perhaps the most intriguing here. It happens on t...

I really love this series and wish I didn't keep hearing that the ending is not very good. Because of the way I tend to read series these days (spread out over years rather than one after another), I appreciate when storylines are longer but self-contained in one volume, and this series is so great at that. There are some dangling plot threads, like (view spoiler)[January working with Kremlin to oust Hundred from office from the inside so that he goes back to full-time superheroics (hide spoiler...

It's been a while since I picked up a volume of Ex Machina. I decided recently that I should go ahead and finish reading the series. I didn't have any trouble picking up on it again, even though it's been more than five years since I read the last volume.It's still a very good series, with some great stories. The stories are fairly topical and sometimes specific to NYC in 2003 (or thereabouts) in a world that is similar (but not quite identical) to our own. But it doesn't feel at all dated, real...

3 stars. Picked up towards the end as we got into more of the large, overarching story - the stuff I'm really interested in. The small political arcs are ok, but nothing outstanding. I've yet to see the hype - just doesn't have me "itching" to read the next issue to find out what happens next. I'm tempted to give up on this title and not sure if I'll read the next volume. The end extras of Tony Daniels art work and process was great. I normally don't care much for the extras, but his pencils and...

Still stays a solid story with good art. I am enjoying the political stuff a lot more than I usually would. I am wondering what the tunneler was all about...

I want more superhero subplot, less politics.

I expected a lot more from this volume.First of all, let me give my opinions on the series thus far. I was unimpressed with the first volume but the premise was interesting enough to keep me going. The second volume was a huge improvement. There were new facets to the story and intriguing characters. I expected that Vaughan was building steam and would continue on with the strong from volume two. I fully expected to enjoy volume three. Unfortunately, nothing really happened in volume three. Yes,...

This has been my favorite one so far, us until this point I have been mostly just enjoying the idea behind the story and the tension inevitable in a superhero/vigilante turned public servant. This book starts to add intruige to the how and why, while also filling in some much needed depth in the supporting cast, namely, Bradbury. I have felt, since the first book, that BKV was slacking in his character development, but tried not to hold it against him since he was doing a great job of balancing

In which we think we are starting to see where Vaughan is going with the origin of Mitch Hundred's powers: he follows up the Witten name-drop and brain/brane homonym game from Vol 1 with new clues of the multiverse, embodied by a new mysterious character from an alternate Earth.But then maybe we don't, and this is just going to end up being another season of Lost.There's more of the usual political calculus and impossible choices that plague the denizens of City Hall. A nice afterword by Vaughan...

This is one of those stories where I can’t see what’s coming next. I always marvel at novels and comics like that. Ones that you can’t predict what’s going to happen next but also confident that no matter what it is, it’s going to be good. I’ve already explained pretty much the synopsis of what this series is and what it does in my last two reviews.All I’ll say in this is that there hasn’t been a quality dip that I can discern and every issue is like a puzzle piece that fits into the board allow...

I look at the other reviews and I see I'm just about the only one who think there's too much superheroics and not enough politics. Downplaying the capes is what makes this series fresh, but it feels too much like the climax is going to be superheroics stuff rather than thinkpiece stuff. It keeps becoming more and more about villains and sci-fi business.

Still a good series. There is some more stuff about about Hundred actually got his powers, and why. I think that is what is keeping me going right now with this series. I want to know how he got his powers. I'm really hoping it doesn't get wrapped up really quickly in the last book. It seems like they have given some clues here and there, but Hundred always seems to dismiss it as bullshit.

Again, an excellent book. As usual, great art, original stories. I especially liked the standalone stories. Four stars this time, since I liked the Pherson story in book 2 more. This book hints at greater developments happening, can’t wait to read the next books.

Definitely hitting it’s stride now. Some of the language used in the series is disappointing given the mostly progressive politics but I’m trying to look past that. Unfortunately, I find it takes me out of the story occasionally.

Found this one much more interesting then volume 2, yet once again the overall themes are only tapped upon quickly and not solved at all, but the stories were interesting and the balance of power vs. superpower was well done in this one. Still a great book!

West Wing meets superheroesOne of the smartest comics I've read. Cuts between the present and the past brilliantly and I'd love to see it turned into a TV show. The ideas it plays with, racism, politics and terrorism seem very relevant now, even though it was written years ago