 Complete the following phrase:  Upon the release of the first series, IGN gave the series positive reviews. Brian Vaughan uses Ex Machina to examine the water cooler topics of the moment, such as gay marriage, but also attempts to understand heroism in Americas new era...Whats most impressive about Vaughans work is that his four monthly books are very different, not only thematically, but with cadence, pacing and dialogue. Ex Machina won the 2005 Eisner Award for Best New Series. In Cultures of War in Graphic Novels, Tatiana Prororkova and Nimrod Tal suggest that protagonist Mitchell Hundred is a stand-in for the authors view on the Iraq War at the time. Analyzing Hundreds reaction to the 