{"id":560,"date":"2008-09-21T22:41:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T04:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=560"},"modified":"2010-08-20T22:48:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T04:48:13","slug":"ex-machina-march-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Ex Machina: March to War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m headed toward the impression that maybe Ex Machina doesn&#8217;t know where it&#8217;s going after all, which would bother me less, I think, if I didn&#8217;t have the excellent Y: The Last Man series by the same author to compare with. As it is, <a title=\"Ex Machina, Vol. 4: March to War by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ex-Machina-Vol-March-War\/dp\/1401209971\/\" target=\"_blank\">March to War<\/a> still delivers on sometimes thought-provoking and always entertaining post-9\/11 political content, so I can&#8217;t complain very much; and it will only help matters if I lower my future expectations.<\/p>\n<p>In this fourth volume, if you wonder, former superhero and current New York City Mayor Mitchell Hundred must deal with political protests of the war in Iraq and a new terrorist attack on his city, and an annoying radio personality as a framing device for a flashback to the time that he had an archenemy with a surprising and complementary power. So that&#8217;s pretty good stuff? Yeah, it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m headed toward the impression that maybe Ex Machina doesn&#8217;t know where it&#8217;s going after all, which would bother me less, I think, if I didn&#8217;t have the excellent Y: The Last Man series by the same author to compare with. As it is, March to War still delivers on sometimes thought-provoking and always entertaining [&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":[17,22],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel","tag-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}