This is the story of my four years in office, from the beginning of 2002 through godforsaken 2005. It may look like a comic, but it’s really a tragedy.
With this sentence we are thrown into Brian K. Vaughan’s excellent sci-fi political thriller Ex Machina, a comic book which charts the rise and presumably, given the sentence just quoted, fall of Mayor Hundred aka The Great Machine. The book deals with what happens when the world’s first and only superhero hangs up his jet pack and runs for political office. Vaughan has said that the series will run to fifty issues, the first eleven of which are collected in this handsome hardcover edition.
