Ex Machina #50

The fifty-issue run of Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris's Ex Machina comes to a close with this 2010 finale, subtitled "The Final Issue" right on the cover. Harris's cover art assembles a crowd of familiar faces — a weathered older man in overalls reaching upward at center, flanked by figures including a red-haired woman, a uniformed officer, and a sharp-suited man whose face glows with an eerie green light — suggesting a full cast gathering for one last moment. It's a fittingly ensemble sendoff for a series that always kept its human characters as central as its superhero premise.