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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401209971
ISBN: 1401209971
Label: Wildstorm
Manufacturer: Wildstorm
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: December 06, 2006
Publisher: Wildstorm
Release Date: December 06, 2006
Sales Rank: 246755
Studio: Wildstorm
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Ex Machina, the Eisner Award-winning series that Entertainment Weekly voted "One of the 10 Best Fiction Books of 2005," tells the story of Mitchell Hundred, who becomes the Great Machine, America's first superhero, after a strange accident gives him amazing powers.Eventually tiring of risking his life merely to maintain the status quo, Mitchell retires from masked crime-fighting and becomes the mayor of New York City. In this volume, a shocking tragedy strikes an Iraq War protest in downtown Manhattan, and Mayor Hundred must choose between the liberty of his constituents and the security of his city.Plus, a tale from the past finally reveals the origin of his mysterious archenemy, Jack Pherson.
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Hundred, the mayor of this alternate New York City, finds himself hemmed in on every side by bleak alternatives. Let that rally's permit stand, with the chance it might get out of hand, or quash free speech? Then when dozens are injured and several (including a very special one) killed in a terrorist attack on the rally, the perfect clarity of hindsight changes all the answers - or does it? A few other plot threads build up, too, with the clear expectation that they'll develop in future volumes of ... Read More
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...and also the best. Volume 4 of Ex Machina offers the most engrossing storyline of the series. While the subject matter is about controversial issues, namely the war in Iraq, it doesn't really have a bias either way. It's more of an alternative, or parallel universe where the war is still going on, and how these people react to. Almost impossible to tear yourself away from this series once you've started reading it.
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This fourth trade paperback collects issues #17-20 and a two 'special' issues of Vaughan and Harris' acclaimed series. The excellent first four issues focus on the 2003 runup to the US invasion of Iraq as a ricin attack during an anti-war rally fells a key character. Vaughan explores the controversial modern tradeoff between security and liberty. The Ex Machina Specials were less enjoyable, featuring a villain that can communicate with animals like Hundred can with machines. These two issues also ... Read More
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Mayor Hundred has some serious political stuff to deal with as he has to allow protesters to demonstrate about Iraq, and deal with the flak he gets from their political opposites at the same time.
An interview also sparks thoughts of an old enemy, and hence the writers delve into the backstory of this bloke.
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After a disappointing volume 3 'Ex Machina' is back in top form with Volume 4 'The March to War'. The Iraq war was a subject that Vaughan would have to tackle eventually in this series and here he does it with a fine even-handed approach.
One of Mayor Hundred's staff resigns to participate in an anti-war demonstration and Hundred is left to figure out how to provide security for the city while not trampling on the rights of free speech of the protestors. The ending of this story leaves ... Read More
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