I know Mr. Vaughan from the Last Man and I totally loved it. That was a good begin to the story for our knowledge what happens here. Mr. Vaughan can read that what happens on the world and what will be important for our society. Racism, art, war between good and bad, between our emotions, also thoughts. I have a good feeling about it and for sure excited already for the rest of story!

Read a graphic novel.3.5 starsI really enjoyed this first volume (I think it contained the first 5 serials) about a politician who has developed the ability to talk to machines after a mysterious accident. I only wish I had the other volumes in the series! Argh!!Mitchell Hundred is injured in a mysterious explosion and suddenly finds himself able to communicate with machines. Sometimes, this ability really helps him (such as telling a gun being used to assassinate him to jam) but at other times,...

Mitchell Hundred, formerly the super hero known as The Great Machine, gets elected mayor of New York. From there, he deals with a blizzard, a controversial painting, a sleazeball trying to blackmail him, and a killer killing snowplow drivers.I can't BELIEVE I didn't pick this up before now! BKV and Tony Harris make a good team. I really liked how the story shifted back and forth from Hundred's mayoral term to his former super hero career. The supporting cast was very well developed. The fact tha...

Vol. 1 of 10It was good but for some reason I had no inclination to pick up the book and read it. I don't know if this is too political for my taste. Do I want to waste time and energy on this? Does the fact that I have to push myself to read this trump over the fact that once I'm reading it I'm enjoying the story? Quick catch-up so I remember what this volume is about: Mitch Hundred, mayor of NYC, is dealing with someone killing off the snow plowmen and also dealing with a controversial piece o...

I’m very much a fan of Vaughan. Y The Last Man, Saga…all terrific. This one didn’t quite hit the same notes for me, but that has a lot to do with the sort of disgusted disinterest I have in politics – I’ll still read The New York Times daily, but it isn’t necessarily something to want in my comics. And there’s much about politics here, because the protagonist is a mayor of NYC. That alone wouldn’t sell the story for me, but the fact that he also has a superpower of a mysterious origin did.The ma...

It's interesting to see where BKV got his roots. Saga is space opera, it's a huge idea, and Paper Girls is zany 80s fantasy. Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina are similar in their restraint. They both have their quirks but they're modest, more concerned with dialog and tight plotting than big ideas. The idea here is a super hero, The Great Machine, albeit not a very good one who controls machines, retires and runs for mayor. It's part social commentary, part crime procedural, but with BKV's signatu...

Still my very favorite work from BKV. I feel like this takes the superhero genre and infuses it with the perfect dose of reality. While definitely not for young readers, it has Vaughn's perfect blend of wit, suspense, and charm, all infused into a thoughtfully told story of using your best talents to save the world, which may not always be superpowers.

A radically different approach to the whole superhero concept...a man who suddenly gains great power, already trained in having great responsibility...but who is a better politician than he is a superhero.I couldn't put it down once I started reading it, and will read the other volumes, but it isn't for everyone. Politics, crime and terrorism, minor and major, are the battles waged here, not slugfests against other costumed characters. The story is more pulp noir than superhero, and that works j...

First: I thought that this cómic have some relation with the movie. I was wrong. It's about a superhero, no machine, no robot, no system guy. The ending was shocking, perhaps 'cause I have some feelings about 9/11, that make it unforgettable. 😫

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.Set around the year 2000, Ex Machina (Volume 1) The First Hundred Days concocts a New York city politics-filled drama mixed in with a dose of realistic superhero vigilantism. Writer of countless renown series such as Saga, Y: The Last Man and Paper Girls, Brian K. Vaughan offers us the story of Mitchell Hundred as he randomly lives through a freak accident that presents him with never-before-seen superpowers. This volume collects issues #1-5 and...

I'm not usually a fan of "realistic" superhero comics. Too often, "gritty" and "realistic" means creating dislikable characters and putting them in grim situations in the mistaken idea that this makes the comic "deep," whereas I just find them boring (at best).But Ex Machina is a fairly realistic story of a man given amazing powers who becomes a costumed crimefighter, only to quickly decide he's doing more harm than good as a superhero and could do more good in politics, as mayor of New York Cit...

This is an interesting take on the superhero genre, with a man randomly granted powers and first attempting to use them as a superhero, ‘The Great Machine’, before giving up on that and turning to politics in order to make a real difference. I’m not a huge fan of the art, but it’s not bad or distracting; there’s just something about it I don’t quite get on with, especially when it comes to faces.There’s really a lot more to this story than can be packed into one volume, and in a way I wanted to

A really interesting mix of political drama and superhero comic. Short version: I liked it. It's well done. Good narrative. Good story. Smart comic. The longer version.... Well.... Through no fault of the book itself, I'm afraid this comic is starting to show its age a bit. The comic was written between 2005 and 2010, and set between 1999 and 2008. That's not a long time ago historically, or even technologically. But since this book deals with pressing social issues of the day, 7 years is a *ton...

As far as slightly unconventional superhero stories go, Ex Machina is (so far) one of the more interesting one. Mitchell Hundred starts his career as a superhero in a fairly conventional way. From what we've seen so far in flashbacks, he made the usual, realistic mistakes, and had the usual, realistic results, both positive and negative. The change comes when Hundred decides that he can have more positive impact as mayor than as superhero. It's an interesting setup, and so far, it seems to be wo...

An interesting take in the superhero story. Attacks it more from a political and social commentary aspect. I just didnt find the main characters all that interesting. The plot moved along quite nicely, and it came into its own by the end. Just didnt wow me like Vaughans other novels.

3.5. I don't really know how I feel about this book?I love Brian K. Vaughn because he has diverse casts in all of his series and they never feel like he just shoved them there just because. His casts always have more than one woman, in different age ranges and usually he has members of the lgbtqia community. This one doesn't have any of the latter but it's just the first book. So, the plot is interesting. There was a twitter post going around about how Batman could've helped Gotham more by fundi...

Brian K Vaughan is a master of dead-fun dialogue. Y'know, I might even say...nah. Brian Michael Bendis is still my king of "taking the piss out of another character", but Vaughan is a butt-hair second place:And this is a perfect take on "superheroes" - they're reckless, self-indulgent and rarely accountable for their actions. What would happen when one of them tried to do some *real* good, after getting their powers? Compelling are the characters - richly nuanced, flawed, assholes and weirdos, l...

I really wish I liked Brian K. Vaughan's "edgy" comics work more. I can't get myself to really like Y: The Last Man, and I can't get myself to like this one, either...Collecting the first five issues of Ex Machina, the basic plot here is that a superhero who got zapped by the Brooklyn Bridge to be able to talk to machines decides to quit and run for mayor. A hero on September 11th--he managed to prevent one of the planes from flying into the Twin Towers, leading to a gratuitous ending shot to th...

Ex Machina, Vol 1: A Superhero Who Goes Into Politics - A bit like Watchmen + House of CardsThis is an interesting concept - a superhero with the ability to control machines who decides to go into politics as the mayor of NYC. The artwork is excellent, very crisp and realistic and gritty, so well suited to this story of down and dirty politics and a superhero who thinks he can make more of a difference via government than by saving civilians from crime and emergencies. It's definitely something

Book Info: This collection contains Ex Machina issues #1-5.ABSOLUTE RATING: {2.5+/5 stars}STANDARDIZED RATING: <3/5 stars>Mitchell Hundred, the protagonist of Ex Machina, is an ex-superhero (called The Great Machine) turned New York City mayor. He's essentially a telepath, except instead of reading and controlling human minds, he claims dominion over machines and certain compounds. In terms of personality, he's just the typical "regular guy" protagonist. This is something Vaughan has done al...