Ex Machina # 44 - Ring Out The Old: Conclusion

is a comic book published by Wildstorm & released on 10 / / 2009

User Rating - 7 votes, 3.9 avg.

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Risking everything, Mayor Hundred descends into the sewers of New York City to finally learn why he was given the strange powers that helped him become the super-heroic Great Machine!

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    Ben Abernathy
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  • Jd Mettler
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    Kristy Quinn
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  • Tony Harris
    artist, cover



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    User Reviews
    It's what I've been waiting for.
    Reviewed by Ectoplasmic on Aug. 29, 2009.
    Ectoplasmic has written 31 reviews. His/her last review was for Revenge Of The Red Hood, Part 3: Flamingo Is Here.
    11 out of 13 users recommend his reviews.
    I feel like not enough people read this comic and it kind of pisses me off.
    This is the one book that is consistently, issue after issue, delivering a good story every month yet I never hear anyone mention it nor do I see anything about it on comicvine or anywhere else. 
     
    It's disappointing. I feel there are far too many avid comic book readers who sacrifice their time, money, and intelligence on awful stories and events that are vomited out by either DC and Marvel. And what happens is a book like this flies under their radar in exchange for another fucking Wolverine title. 
     
    It's just awful.
     
    Anyway if you have been following this title then you'll know that there's been this one particular plot thread since the first issue: What's the deal with Mitch's powers? It's always been so ambiguous. 
    Well, this is the issue that starts to answer them in a big BIG way. We're talking in an almost cosmic, bigger than life sort of way. 

    SPOILERS 
    The person responsible for the rat murders is actually a small box which contain the violet power... But what it explains to Mitch about his powers and purpose is what really matters.
    Turns out that Mitch was supposed to be similar to what the Silver Surfer was to Galactus.  (bad analogy)
    Mitch's powers were meant to prepare the Earth for something else coming, some threat on a cosmic/dimensional level. But his powers weren't the only powers available. This green light that gave Mitch the power to communicate and control machines was part of 4 colors that were intended to be used to dominate the world. The other 3 were explained. There's the violet light which Pherson has been using to control all the beasts of the Earth, there's the red light which allows a person to communicate and control plants, and then there's the white light which was just introduced this issue that allows the user to control humans through spoken commands... 
    And within this issue we see that Mitch had created a box for the white light years ago before he was elected mayor because of a dream he had but he never knew what it was for. Now, because of an accident by Bradbury, the white light was transferred into a reporter and this person will be the new herald for whatever is coming, not Mitch....
    END SPOILERS

    I just wish that Brian K Vaughn had developed the ideas in this issue earlier on in the series... 
    Because in this issue are colors...  And since Geoff Johns took over Green Lantern and made color powers all the rage it's cheapened the effect that this book should have had... Not in a big way, but it cheapens it a little. It makes Vaughn's ideas seem like they were influenced by what's going on in the Green Lantern titles when that's not true at all. 
    I think Vaughn knew he was going to be using Mitch's powers this way from day one but he had a huge story to tell.
     
    I'm just curious how this story will wrap up. The very first issue started with Mitch explaining how it all went wrong for him and every issue since has been a flashback scene. Now that we're getting closer to Mitch's end I can't help but wonder how bad will it get?



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