Index: The Comic Pusher Review of Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris's Ex Machina

The Run: Ex Machina by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris

In my column, The Run, I review long-form serialized works over multiple parts. Last month I wrapped up my series on Ex Machina by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris. Certainly the long-form highlight of both creators' illustrious careers, Ex Machina is an expansive sci-fi post-superhero political thriller, a chronicle of a city, and the terrible cost of Power. Serialized over 54 issues between 2004 and 2010 by WildStorm and published as ten Volumes (or five double-sized Books) by Vertigo, Ex Machina is engaging and rewarding, and a work that changes radically on reexamination.

Below are my reviews of every story in the series, in order.

• "The Pilot"
• State of Emergency
• Tag
• "Fortune Favors"
• Fact v. Fiction
• Off The Grid
• March to War 
• Life and Death
• Smoke Smoke
• "Stand Alone"
• Power Down
• Ex Cathedra
• "Masquerade"
• "World's Finest"
• "The Race"
• Dirty Tricks
• "Ruthless"
• "Green"
• Ring Out the Old
• Pro-Life
• "Vice"

For my series of reviews of Naoki Urasawa's Pluto, click here. For all installments of The Run, click here. For the full index of all reviews, click here.