@ David I agree with you, I was thinking that they were going to give Ex Machina 5 oranges out of 5 but 3 out of 5 is just crazy. Don't be pulling those shenanigans with my BKV.

You tell 'em Casey! Make them dead like Latin! Kick 'em in the face!

Review the Goon... now!

Sorry, I may have been a bit harsh. I don't speak latin either, but it's a common phrase used in literature and originates from greek plays, where a god would be lowered onto the stage with a lifting machine to fix the problem of story. Therefore the Deus Ex Machina is used to refer to any outside source that enters a story to resolve the conflict. I take back my comment about you being fools, however, now you have no excuse for mispronouncing it in the future. :) And yes, I'll give my own review. Thanks.

David, gotta tell you, I was an English major and I've always considered it a pretty obscure phrase -- even people who know it may never have spoken it aloud, unless they heard a professor say it (or have fairly pretentious conversations, as bringing up the idea of Deus Ex Machina is sort of boring point to make about any story -- it's either in a story or it's not, and to me there are more original ways to talk about plot). I don't think it has anything to do with comic book cred to know how to pronounce that phrase. Love Brian K Vaughan, but I always thought he chose the title for its pun value more than anything deep he was trying to say about storytelling. And of course now he's working on one of the biggest offenders as far as Deus Ex Machina plots go -- LOST -- so I guess it was prescient.

I could understand them mispronouncing it if I hadn't heard many, many people in life and on podcasts pronounce it correctly. I definately think I over reacted, I got caught up in the whole "online anonymity" thing that makes you less conscious of how impolite you are. That being said I think his choice of simply "Ex Machina" from the title would refer to simply Hundred getting his powers from a machine. Though the entire phrase could then imply a future idea that this power was somehow given to him as a means of changing the course of the world. But i see where you're coming from Tim. And thanks fro the support Bombardem, I've heard it a bunch too, though an English major should be the expert. I guess we all experience the world slightly differently. Also, read Transmetropolitan, I've heard it was good. But if you like a mature, political, well written and drawn series, give Ex Machina a chance. BKV rocks.