Ex Machina #3

In "State of Emergency Chapter Two," the quiet of a slow news day gives unexpected weight to a publicly funded Lincoln portrait, while Mitchell’s rise to Special Adviser on Youth Affairs brings new scrutiny. As snow plow drivers continue to fall victim to mysterious attacks, Kremlin presses Mitchell with a haunting offer: to become the Great Machine once more. Written by Brian K. Vaughan and brought to life by Tony Harris’s striking interior art—inked by Tom Feister, colored by J. D. Mettler, and lettered by Jared K. Fletcher—this 2004 DC issue builds tension with a quiet unease, all under Harris’s powerful cover.