Brian K Vaughn and Tony Harris have such a handle on this title, you'd think that one of them was writing their bibliography. Seriously, the nuances of character, and the little details, somebody really knows what they're talking about, or they have this planned out down to the minutest detail. Plus the way the story bounces around timewise, part of the story is 4 or 5 years ago when he was the Great Machine, and not the Mayor. Then the story will bounce to the present, or to a year or 2 ago when he was Mayor. And, it's flawless. That's what I'm saying, the way it all fits together is almost to perfect, as if it was someones past, rather than a fictional story. But, I guess that just reinforces how well it is written. We start out a couple of years ago when a drug dealer steals the Great Machine's machine. Then we bounce forward a couple of years to when a woman set herself on fire on the steps of city hall. At this time there's also someone posing as a fireman going around and doing home invasions. Also going on is a woman, January, who is working undercover at the Mayor's office, for some reason we haven't learned yet. And the story ends when a building is on fire and when a fireman goes to clear out an apartment he is shot through the door because the guy living there has heard about the fake fireman stories. Now add to this that Tony Harris is changing his artwork a bit, we see a glimpse on some of the final pages, and it really looks nice. Not that his old stuff wasn't good, but this stuff is even better. This is a thinking man's comic. I think it'll be around for a long time.
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