A review by lbrex
Ex Machina, Vol. 10: Term Limits by Tony Harris, Brian K. Vaughan

5.0

After working my way through some of the other later volumes, most notably numbers 7 and 8, which I don't think added to the overall plot or showed us that much about the main character, Vaughan has brought the series to a puzzling and distressing end--an end that is satisfying nonetheless. This series actually ends up being even darker than I imagined at first, and the series' engagement with issues of "national security" seems much more complicated.

Spoiler

Also, who would have thought that Mitchell Hundred would, like Sarah Palin, end up as the mayor who became John McCain's running mate?? And that Mitchell was, in fact, even more frightening than real-life politicians in the lengths to which he would go to defend the security of the planet?

. Ultimately, this is a series about political idealism told through super-hero narrative, but it ends up disabling our inclination to see politicians as superheroes. This leaves me wondering whether this isn't, then, politically disabling...a series that will lead to even more crippling political cynicism.