I love him because I’m always wondering what kind of things our generation will sit and grumble when we complain about “today’s youth” when we’re in our 80s. He’s also not a fan of the younger people’s obsession with anonymity. He’s slightly senile (or just deeply in denial) and keeps trying to get onto the internet and turn on his old iPhone, to no avail. One of my favorite things about it was probably the characters, especially P.I.’s grandfather, who is basically from our generation.

No one’s going to know who you are dressed as a giant fish. They’ve really gone all out with the whole secret identity thing. The premise is great, I love how current it is (in the sense of the theme of privacy and the internet) at the same time as it’s so incredibly wacky. It took me a little while to get into it, but when the ball started rolling I got sucked into it and finished it in one sitting. gets dragged into a dangerous conspiracy that threatens the newfound world-order. Our main character is P.I., an unlicensed private investigator, who suddenly gets a visit from a mysterious woman who has a case for him (in true hardboiled style). Just imagine everyone knowing your complete browser history, and more. People lost their jobs, families were torn apart, blah fucking blah.” Every message you thought was safe, every photo you thought you deleted, every mortifying little search you ever made… it was all there for anyone to use against you. “Look, nobody knows if it was an act of war or an act of God, but for forty days and forty nights, everything just poured right out for the whole damn country to see. So now there is no more internet, no more smart phones, and everyone uses masks and fake names to hide who they are. This came about after “the cloud” burst 60 years ago and exposed everyone’s deepest and darkest secrets. The story is a hardboiled detective story merged with a dystopian future in which everyone has a secret identity. I ended up not loving it as much as Saga, but I really enjoyed it. I’ve read the first four volumes of Saga and I love it a lot, so when I saw this on Netgalley I couldn’t resist. You might recognize the author as the author of Saga, which is a well known sci-fi graphic novel series. The Private Eye is a series of ten issues that, as far as I understand it, were originally posted online but has now been published in hardback.

This review was written for the Dystopia Reading Challenge.

I received a free ebook copy from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Genres: Adult, Graphic Novel, Mystery, Crime, Dystopia Published by Image Comics in December 2015 The Private Eye (Deluxe Edition)by Brian K.

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