{"id":364,"date":"2007-12-07T15:05:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=364"},"modified":"2010-01-22T12:29:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T18:29:43","slug":"ex-machina-the-first-hundred-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I mentioned new graphic novels, right? The opening salvo is <a title=\"Ex Machina, Vol. 1: The First Hundred Days by Brian K. Vaughn and Tony Harris, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ex-Machina-Vol-First-Hundred\/dp\/1401206123\/\" target=\"_blank\">The First Hundred Days<\/a>, which combines one part superhero comic with two parts recent events and two more parts politics. I&#8217;m still trying to decide how I feel about it. The writing was definitely solid, and given that it&#8217;s the same author as the Y series, I certainly expected it to be so. The content, on the other hand was&#8230; possibly outside my area of interest, I guess. There were only bits and pieces that related to Mitchell Hundred&#8217;s powers and stint as a hero, and while I did enjoy both of the major political storylines, the ins and outs of city hall doesn&#8217;t really seem like my long-term thing. I&#8217;m glad that there were hints of stories with a larger scope in the future and signs that we&#8217;ll learn more about his life before he became the mayor of New York City; if the rest of the series were to be very much like this one was, I&#8217;d run out of interest pretty fast, despite the quality of the writing. (As far as the art, it&#8217;s not really as good as most of what I&#8217;ve been reading lately, but without being in any way bad.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I mentioned new graphic novels, right? The opening salvo is The First Hundred Days, which combines one part superhero comic with two parts recent events and two more parts politics. I&#8217;m still trying to decide how I feel about it. The writing was definitely solid, and given that it&#8217;s the same author as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}