{"id":420,"date":"2008-06-02T22:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=420"},"modified":"2022-02-25T14:52:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:52:17","slug":"ex-machina-fact-v-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Ex Machina: Fact v. Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The third volume of Ex Machina<\/a> is essentially more of the same. Which is to say, it contains odds and ends of political discussion[1], bits and pieces of Mayor Mitchell Hundred’s past, both before and after he gained his power over machinery of all kinds[2], and, most interestingly to me, continued gradual reveals about the source of his powers and other related incidents around the world[3]. Also, there’s a rival vigilante superhero in New York City! Plus more drama within Hundred’s past and present support systems!<\/p>\n

I’m just saying: still a solid story, about which I have little of substance to say at this point. But I have a feeling that it’s all going to come together someday, and I’ll be, like, wow. It’s a theory, anyway.<\/p>\n

Oh, and also, the occasional skyline shots with the remaining World Trade Center tower portrayed prominently? Still just as chilling as they were in the first volume.<\/p>\n

[1] Well, really a lot less than usual, but replaced by civic responsibility in the guise of jury duty. Which falls in the same bucket, I guess.
\n[2] Including a bit of a family bombshell, something I’m starting to realize that Vaughan is pretty good at; I should pay attention to his episodes of Lost and issues of Buffy Season 8 and see if the trend holds there, as it has in this and Y: The Last Man.
\n[3] See, without going into spoilers, there’s an event that seems related to Hundred’s powers, but which is later revealed to have been a mislead. Except<\/em>, I’m pretty sure that reveal was the real mislead, and that this information will be very important later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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