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 Under The Dome is terrible). Ex Machina exceeded my expectations. I love reading about super powers and the fight between good and evil and all that good shit but I also love seeing real issues discussed. Ex Machina does this perfectly. The parallel NYC was amazing and Mitchell Hundred is one of the most interesting characters I’ve seen.Vol 8 has The Republican National Convention at play as well as Wylie having visions of a slave from the 1600’s. I know it sounds crazy but it makes perfect sense in this amazing story. I don’t want to give anything away so I’ll just say that I highly recommend Ex MachinaFYI: I’ll leave a review for all ten volumes but only change the last paragraph because the first three paragraphs were so powerful that they are relevant to all ten volumes.. LOL The close of this series is really weak. Where in "Y: The Last Man" the series grew stronger in the last three episodes, this one has just kind of fallen off the cliff and into the realm of shark-jumping implausibility. Yeah, there are moments that jump out at you. A couple of wow moments (especially in the final chapter of this volume...it's pretty much 'wow' through and through), but overall, this was a struggle to get through. It's been that way for the last 2 volumes, sadly. Only two books to go, but don't know if I'll ever get through them based off the steady decline since vol. 6. Sad.
Hero or idiot, Bush, Kremlin still sabotaging Hundred, how much can you change through politics?
—daniela
Pretty much the same thing as all the other volumes. Nothing that exciting.
—hudz
Better than average and that means really good in this very good series...
—Donjon
Too much West Wing style talk and a totally lame villain.
—yunuscool
And the supervillain is a Bush protester.
—AspieWriter
