{"id":1543,"date":"2009-12-20T21:17:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T02:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2021-09-22T17:05:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T21:05:42","slug":"ex-machina-dirty-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1543","title":{"rendered":"Ex Machina: Dirty Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ex Machina<\/a>: Dirty Tricks<\/a><\/em> (2009) Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris, Jim Clark, John Paul Leon, JD Mettier<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mitchell Hundred has several problems, as usual. He’s being haunted by a ghost, the Republican convention is coming to town, a woman is pulling crazy stunts to protest President Bush, and the Klan wants to march in the park.<\/p>\n

Most of the stories are in the continuing timeline, however, the final story spends a chunk of time in the past, after Mitchell Hundred had been released from the hospital following the accidentally that eventually made him into the Great Machine.<\/p>\n

The thing about going back into the past is it reminded me how little we know about what happened. This is a piece of that history, but mostly it left me wanting to know more.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the stories in the current timeline, especially his dealing with Trouble. I also like his idea of what happened to the surviving World Trade center in his reality.<\/p>\n

Although the final story does delve into his past, if you have not been reading Ex Machina, I don’t recommend starting here, but instead going back to the beginning and reading forward.<\/p>\n

I’m not quite sure where he’s going with the story, but I still want to follow along.
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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