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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 ... (show more)
Reviews (14)
The central story in this volume is excellent; the Jack Pherson story is sort of a big letdown.
This is a solid series with much more grappling with political and moral issues than most superhero tales.
really liked the parallels in this volume, pherson was def. an interesting 'archnemesis', but he really did not put up the fight an archnemesis should put up.