A review by joshgauthier
Ex Machina, Vol. 5: Smoke, Smoke by Tom Feister, J.D. Mettler, Brian K. Vaughan

3.0

Still lacking in subtlty, still a tad chauvinistic, still a fragmented set of parallel storylines. Vol. 5 manages to hold onto enough of the positive aspects of previous volumes, and even improve on some of them. A lot of the same issues are here as well, but this volume also does more to set up a larger forthcoming conflict, and it's that larger storyline that keeps me coming back more than anything else.