Mayor Hundred gets pulled into marijuana legalization and a person masquerading as a firefighter breaks into homes.3.5 stars I liked this volume more than the last one but not as much as the first three. I'm still up for seeing what else Hundred tackles while he's in office.

Graphic Novel. Mayor Hundred takes on marijuana. At this rate we'll be having a very special episode about abortion next. I just don't feel like Vaughan's saying anything with these hot button topics of his, though he did make a few nods to past events in the series, so there was a hint of continuity. Also some intrigue as he sets things up for the next big conflict. Still, Vaughan seems to be having trouble striking a balance between stories about being a mayor and stories about being a superhe...

There is one important piece of this comics-series:Vaughan touches every little sensitive topics in the world. Gay-marriage, marihuana smoke, politics, rassismus etc. The story is not the best alone. But the prespective of it is fair enough.

I love this series so much. It continues to impress me.

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 difference between a comic and a graphic novel but I’ve also seen the terms use interchangeably but this piece of work is too great to be called anything else. I read “Y The Last Man” so I was a fan of Brian K Vaughn (Although...

Brian K. Vaughan, Ex Machina: Smoke, Smoke (DC Comics, 2007)Vaughan continues to impress with everything he puts out. The most recent Ex Machina collection takes on the thorny (well, where legislators are concerned) topic of drug legalization. A new character pops up: January Moore, the departed Journal's sister, who Hundred appoints to step into Journal's shoes. As usual, there's a relatively dismissable mystery arc, but they're starting to tie in much better with the overarching themes found i...

Another great volume in the Ex Machina series. This one felt a little less multi-dimensional. Mayor Hundred lets slip that he has, in his past, smoked pot once or twice. Then a woman immolates herself on City Hall steps. Then a guy dressed as a fireman is breaking, entering, assaulting, and robbing. In the midst of all this, a new team member appears, January (Journal's sister), and she may not have Mayor Hundred's best interests in mind. A lot of stuff is happening, but I didn't feel a lot of c...

Mr. Vaughan has chosen to take on a different social issue in each story arc and I like it. This time, if you haven't guessed it, it's the devil's lettuce aka wacky tabbacky, wait are you saying it's not called that anymore? I'll have to blame being straight edge for 50+ years on my lack of knowledge. Anyway, great stuff (again), and super relevant, especially when this came out. I just wish he would progress the superpower origin arch more, at this point I'm starting to wonder if Vaughan actual...

This series is killing it. Marijuana, terrorism, psychopathy, gay marriage, assassination, capital punishment. It's comic book violent while tackling serious issues. And wonderfully illustrated. A fantastic series.

Eh, okay collection, this one: faux firefighter breaking into homes, legalization of marijuana stuff, a standalone on the deputy mayor… okay.

All the chickens...All the subplots are finally coming to a head. The weird one about some dirty secret, the Russian frenemy who wants Hundred to fly again, even the "what will he do after mayor?" will-he-or-won't-he silliness. And what happened to that ranting dude from an alternate timeline?Doesn't matter. Good ending. Not great, but good. Like we went through something together, got a little dirty, maybe learned more than we wanted to about each other, and won't be able to look them in the ey...

Mayor Hundred tokes up, a colleague is working against him, and a man posing as a firefighter is slaughtering people and in all this is the theme, this go round, and that is drug legalization, in particular, marijuana - yes I am lucky to be a Canadian right now, for even doing drugs as light as weed when illegal still makes people feel like criminals when they are not and that, and many other points are brought up in the pages of Brian k. Vaughan's reliably consistent series "Ex Machina" and the...

(view spoiler)[A woman self-immolates herself on City Hall's front steps. Hundred admits to prior marijuana use, which starts yet another media circus. Also, Journal's sister January comes to work for the team. Meanwhile, a man who impersonates a firefighter is going around killing people in their apartments. We learn that January is working with Kremlin to try and take down Hundred in some way. We learn that the woman who self-immolated herself was doing it because her son (a pot dealer) was ca...

Another fun volume in this series. Maybe I liked it better than the last one? I don’t remember. I think I need to settle down and just read the series to get through it. I think it’s more enjoyable to read this in one setting instead of how I do it – whenever I randomly have time…

I continue to like this title much more than I originally expected to. For a book with super-powered characters, it's very real, down-to-earth. The characters react believably to generally plausible situations. Smart dialog. The realistic art fits very well and is quite well done.(Now that I think of it, I could say the same for Saga, BKV's current ongoing series. Although it's full-on Sci-Fi with all the crazy characters and settings that you could imagine, emotionally it's deeply real.)

Vol. 5 of 10This one was all about weed, smoking it and making it legal.Recap to remind me what this was about. ****Possible spoilers ahead****:--Mayor Hundred is considering legalizing smoking weed.--A mother of a criminal The Great Machine once helped put in jail, self-immolates on the steps of city hall.--Journal's sister, January, joins the team but seems to have ulterior motives.--There's an FDNY impostor going around the city knocking on people's doors and killing them when they open the d...

I don't think I'll be continuing this series. I just find it quite dull and am very ambivalent about it. Usually within the first 5 volumes you can tell if a series is good and this just isn't it for me. Like my reviews of the previous volumes, there's a lot of potential here, but it never really gets developed. I'm quite disappointed.

A little outdated in terms of progressive political ideas, but still relevant in grappling with real-world problems from the middle. Stories are interesting and the long arc has kept me reading through all the volumes I can find oncomixology.

Good, if comparably "safe". Discussed drug law reform but doesn't quite push it as far as the subject could go. Average superhero antics.

I am a HUGE Brian K. Vaughan fan, but... I don't know. I'm just not feeling this series so far. Still seeing it through to the end though.