Here comes the end...
My main complaint with this issue and with this series as well is that there are very few people reading it.
This is something that boggles my mind.
Most readers are only too happy to take a spoon and gorge themselves on the sh*t which we buy from Marvel or DC (I know I know... Wildstorm is under DC, whatever). But God forbid we CHALLENGE ourselves with a comic that strives to do more than just maintain superhero clichés. This comic touches on hot-button political issues consistently and carefully, always discussing the issues objectively and seriously. This comic feels very mature and maturity is something I've come to enjoy and hold sacred in comics.
Too often I feel that we readers are regarded as hungry idiots by writers. Many comic story arcs are written poorly and we're expected just to be satisfied with the fumbling excuses and explanations that are presented. The quick resolves and shoddy character work… It's just awful.
But even if an issue does suck we still keep buying and we keep earning those sh*tty stories. We earn a writers contempt and we earn terrible stories because we never exclaim that we want something different. We just keep showing them that what they are doing is working…
Just keep giving us our mundane stories or maybe another Wolverine comic and we'll be content to whore ourselves out for it… ß Sarcasm
But I don't feel that way when I read Ex Machina and I appreciate that.
These stories are intelligent, thought-out, and taken seriously. There are no Dark Reign crossovers or Skrulls hiding in plain sight… Just decent story telling.
Sorry for the rant.
So if you've been reading this series you should know that this is the beginning of the end. Only a handful of issues left.
This comic, from inception, was meant to encompass Mitchell Hundred's four years in office and with each issue we've been progressing within those four years.
Now we're nearly at the end and we're about to see what happened to Mitchell, how he became that man sitting in his basement drinking heavy when we first saw him in issue one…
I really don't want this series to end…