{"id":1297,"date":"2009-10-21T23:03:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T05:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2009-12-28T23:04:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T05:04:36","slug":"ex-machina-ex-cathedra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"Ex Machina: Ex Cathedra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ex Machina series has been, at every point, stingy with its distribution of information. Why did this one Mitchell Hundred guy (and his nemesis Pherson) get powers? Is someone pulling the strings? What is the end goal? But this stinginess has been basically okay, because the character and political interactions fill up a lot of time and entertainment. What is currently weirding me out, therefore, is how\u00a0<a title=\"Ex Machina Vol. 7: Ex Cathedra by Brian K. Vaughan, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ex-Machina-Vol-Cathedra\/dp\/1401218598\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ex Cathedra<\/a> doesn\u2019t really seem to fit any of the established patterns.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, it\u2019s enough out of bounds that I wonder if I need to reread the book. It\u2019s happened before with stuff this short, that if I\u2019m just not all there on the day I read it, I have a bookfail. Anyhow, the majority of the book is taken up by Hundred\u2019s acceptance of a requested audience with the pope, in Rome. So, there\u2019s religious talk throughout, but less political than you\u2019d expect. And the flashback scenes about Hundred\u2019s career as the Great Machine, pre-politics, have no apparent tie-in with the rest of the story like I\u2019m accustomed to seeing. On what I\u2019m gonna call the bright side, it had the weirdest vision I think I\u2019ve ever seen in a comic. The final one-shot story<em>did<\/em> have nice character development, but the main plot has left me scratching my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ex Machina series has been, at every point, stingy with its distribution of information. Why did this one Mitchell Hundred guy (and his nemesis Pherson) get powers? Is someone pulling the strings? What is the end goal? But this stinginess has been basically okay, because the character and political interactions fill up a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}