Ex Machina #14

A brooding, green-lit close-up of Mayor Mitchell Hundred dominates this 2005 Wildstorm/DC issue, his glowing eyes and steepled fingers framing a miniaturized New York City skyline below — a striking visual metaphor for a man who holds the city quite literally in his hands. Surrounding him in the background are several supporting figures rendered in that same eerie chartreuse palette, their expressions suggesting tension and unresolved stakes as "Fact v. Fiction" reaches its conclusion. Tony Harris's cover art, inked by Harris himself with colors by JD Mettler, delivers the kind of moody, politically charged atmosphere that made Ex Machina one of the more distinctive series of its era.