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

3.0

Gah! I cannot believe the ending. ARGH! Clearly, I was hoping for a slightly better (read: happier. Not that I was expecting unicorns and rainbows) end. One GR reviewer says "...ending with an image of John McCain like the final shot of any horror movie where the camera pans down to reveal they didn't destroy all the eggs! It's almost exactly that cheesy." I have to agree. Also, the ending is bitter.

Spoiler

Mitchell Hundred is corrupted. At first, I wanted to say that he pulled a 180 (as others have said); but really, he is corrupted by his political goals. Bradbury...well, that's just weird. He wears the jet pack once and suddenly he's the super hero that Hundred wasn't; but then he hates all the attention he got from it? That left me totally confused. All the other characters just sort of pft away in the wind...conveniently written out of the story. Also weird.

Just because Ex Machina didn't end the way I hoped, doesn't mean it wasn't compelling.