Bizarrely the press have replaced the police as the guardians of law and order and libraries have become fortresses since information is the new currency. The changes are there but subtle – nobody has smart phones anymore since the internet no longer exists, but computer games are still played on wall-sized screens, just not online. The vehicle designs are different (especially Mel’s car which rocks) but they’re not a million miles away from what’s on the road now, and there are still high street shops (including, depressingly, McDonald’s). While it’s set 60 years in the future and is clearly futuristic, it’s not implausibly so. It also helps that this is an incredibly good looking comic thanks to Martin’s stunning art and Muntsa Vicente’s bright and beautiful colours. It follows the conventions of the classic sleuth story – the jaded investigator, the femme fatale, the underdog against the powerful, a mystery that leads to a greater mystery, even the sassy accomplice – but does so with a freshness and lightness that’s enormously invigorating. Hunted by international assassins, global conglomerates, and a maniac with a modified space shuttle, PI, Raveena (Taj’s sister) and his faithful chauffeur, the teenage Mel (aka Lady Nunchuk), must survive it all and stop the madman.īrian Vaughan and Marcos Martin’s The Private Eye is the most entertaining neo-noir story you’re likely to read. PI reluctantly agrees but things become more complicated when Taj is murdered and PI realises he’s stumbled into a massive terrorist plot. Now privacy is a premium with everyone – EVERYONE – wearing masks and disguises in their day to day lives and if anyone wants to find out about anyone else, they hire a paparazzo like Patrick Immelmann aka PI to get information.Īyoung woman called Taj McGill hires PI to investigate her. Search histories, recorded conversations, private emails, texts and tweets – all of it came out and inverted the world.

Everyone stored information in The Cloud until The Cloud “burst” and ruined everyone’s lives. She takes off her coat she takes off her jewellery she takes off her dress and then she takes off her skin to reveal another person underneath!!! The world of the future is a pretty weird place to say the least! A man with a camera lurks in the shadows of a building looking across at a building opposite where a beautiful woman is undressing.

The private eye brian k vaughan