{"id":1687,"date":"2008-01-06T14:12:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T14:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2008-01-06T14:20:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T14:20:29","slug":"ex-machina-volume-6-power-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/01\/06\/ex-machina-volume-6-power-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex Machina, Volume 6: Power Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/ex-machina-power-down.jpg\" alt=\"Ex Machina, Volume 6: Power Down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Brian K. Vaughn<\/strong>, <strong>Tony Harris<\/strong>, <strong>Jim Clark<\/strong> &amp; <strong>JD Mettler<\/strong> (WildStorm)<br \/>\nISBN13: 978-1-84576-622-1<\/p>\n<p>In this latest collection of superpower politics (collecting issues #26-29 of the regular comic plus ancillary miniseries <strong>Ex Machina: Inside the Machine<\/strong>) New York City Mayor Mitchell Hundred has to deal with a strangely familiar being who might just be a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Strange visitor from another World\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Not only does he (it?) arrive knowing far too many of the super-hero-turned civic leader&#8217;s darkest secrets, but he (probably not &#8216;it?&#8217;) precipitates a power-cut that blacks out most of Eastern North America &#8211; and that includes Canada!<\/p>\n<p>Edgy, savvy, unpredictable and addictive, the ongoing exploits of the &#8216;Best Politician America Never Had&#8217; are a continuing source of delight for we jaded comic fans and Ex Machina remains the smartest funny-book series being published today. If this can&#8217;t make the casual reader of comics into a slavering fan-boy then they deserve to stay dull, uninformed and disenfranchised.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 &amp; \u00e2\u201e\u00a2 2007 Brian K. Vaughn &amp; Tony Harris. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brian K. Vaughn, Tony Harris, Jim Clark &amp; JD Mettler (WildStorm) ISBN13: 978-1-84576-622-1 In this latest collection of superpower politics (collecting issues #26-29 of the regular comic plus ancillary miniseries Ex Machina: Inside the Machine) New York City Mayor Mitchell Hundred has to deal with a strangely familiar being who might just be a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/01\/06\/ex-machina-volume-6-power-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ex Machina, Volume 6: Power Down&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ex-machina","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-rd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}