Award-winning author Brian K. Vaughan (Pride of Baghdad, Y: The Last Man) expertly combines large city politics and superheroes in ‘Ex Machina Issue 8: Dirty Tricks’ a critically praised series. A new masked adventurer appears in this most recent book, delighting New York City while simultaneously presenting a threat to the Republican National Convention. As Mitchell Hundred, a superhero turned mayoral candidate, deals with the fallout from this mysterious figure’s acts, his political future is in jeopardy.