Rat swarms are scary things. The plot has definitely taken quite a turn for the better with a twist that was well introduced.

3.5/5One volume left. A significant portion of this book is devoted to Mitchell Hundred meeting with Brian K. Vaughn and artist Tony Harris to potentially hire them to write his autobiography. I've never been a fan of fiction where the author inserts themselves into the narrative (I'm looking at you, Stephen King). At best it's a diversion from the main story and at its worse it can be seen as awfully vain. I think what's frustrating me most is that the main story of Kremlin and January's betray...

God it feels good to resume this series. I'm glad I didn't forget too much of it over the space of, what, a year? I never would have thought that I would be reading it during such tumultuous political times. It makes me yearn all the more for a leader like Mitch Hundred.

This was awesome as usual, but I'm definitely ready for some answers at this point. Usually you would expect that the hero finds out the "problem" and then spends a large part of the book "fixing" it. But I'm expecting this to all happen at once, with the "problem" being "find out what's going on.".

"Ring Out The Old" features Mitchell Hundred's old enemies as they mass for the final book in this superb 60 issue series. Pherson (the guy who can talk to animals like Hundred talks to machines) brings New York to its knees using the animal that lives in their millions under the streets of Manhattan, a psychotic killer who claims the plants talk to him murders one of the city's newspaper publishers, and Kremlin and January are planning something to bring Hundred down. There's also a big reveal

I'm giving this 4 stars just because of the first issue where Brian Vaughan and Tony Harris insert themselves into the comic. I like when things are slightly different and especially meta.The rest of it was ok.

This started getting a little more interesting towards the end, but I realized something: I am really far more interested in a comic book about a mayor who happens to be a former superhero than I am in a comic book about former superhero who happens to be mayor, if that makes any sense. I just find myself far more interested in how Mitchell Hundred is going to handle various volatile political situations than I am in how he's going to handle whatever obnoxious wannabe superhero or supervillain i...

Mixed feelings about issue 40 in which writer BKV and artist Tony Harris appear as central characters. Stunt comic-ing, but fun.Aside from that, I'm in love with these characters and their world. Feeling disappointed that it's nearing the end.

Mitchell Hundred was a nerdy civil engineer in New York. While inspecting the Brooklyn Bridge, a mysterious explosion injured him badly and left him with the ability to talk to machines and make them obey his commands. So Hundred did what any self-respecting nerd would do: he tried to be a super-hero. But Mitchell found out quickly that vigilante justice is a lot harder than it looks in the comics so he tried to use the fame he acquired to be elected mayor of New York. Thanks to his heroics duri...

This volume had a slow start with a sort of standalone issue involving a lot of meta-writing. The actual author and illustrator of the series, Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris, are visiting Mayor Hundred to be interviewed for the job of crafting a graphic novel biography. It would have been a clever cameo if it had stayed as such but after several pages I just found it to be a little self-serving as it didn't really further the plot or expand any of the series characters.There is an interesting

100/Hundred!

My favorite, I think, of the nine so far. I liked a lot of this one, and maybe especially (spoiler alert!) the "meta" idea of Mayor Hundred hiring Brian Vaughn and Tony Harris to do his biography…. the comics refs throughout the series are fun, as the Mayor is a comics nerd…. But this second to last book is terrific and helps to set up the epic finish...

Everything this series does well was well-done in this book. The main story, at the end of the book, advanced the plot in a "oh, I guess Brian K. Vaughan really does have an ending planned" way. There's a nice mix of idealistic politics, botched superheroism, plus nice development on the nature of Mayor Hundred's powers.The extra issues, at the beginning of the book, are fun side stories, including an issue featuring Vaughan and Tony Harris on the page. (I have a feeling the bald Vaughan just wa...

This is the best self-insertion I've read in forever. Good dangling off all the loose ends that are hopefully going to be tied up.

Vol. 9 of 10The series is getting tiring. There's a villain in this one who can talk to plants, another one who can talk to animals (Pherson, from previous issues), and both are out to get Mitch. The reporter Mitch dated for about a minute is back and wants something that belongs to Mitch.

AHHHH Thank you an excellent volume, much better than the last. So before we say goodbye to our hero, lets have the explanation of WHY he go his powers and from whom. OK, so it is fantastical, but not out of the expected for a super hero. Throw in the idea of some parallel universes and an alien takeover, FUN.This volume feels more superhero comic book-ish than the series has in awhile, and although that is not really my favorite type of story, it totally fit in the timeline of the series at thi...

Good art; good writing. But one of these is all I'm going to read.

Mayor Hundred announces he is not going to run for Mayor again and has to deal with an invasion of rats just before New Year's.Now we're back to the good stuff! I enjoyed the issue where the Mayor 'hires' Brian Vaughan and Tony Harris to write a graphic novel about his life. The following stories, where things get dark fast, and we find out more about who gave Hundred his powers and the startling use they were intended for, means I want to dive into the next volume now! (please, library gods - g...

A super hero starts to set up his next step in his political career. This volume gets back to the overarching storyline of where these super powers came from and why, which makes it more interesting.