I love how the different veils are intercut into the comic like panels, different animation styles glaringly contrasting with each other to achieve the effect of switching from one veil to another. There is a bit of heavy-handedness in Snyder's delivery of this concept as critique - Veils easily come across as wholly escapist, at least from the perspective of the protagonist - but the concept is perfectly realized visually in the comic by Manapul. The central idea of Veils, customizable augmented reality screens that reshape how one sees the world, of course resonates with any number of current social and technological trends (personalized advertising, filter bubbles, immersive media). The seed of the story isn't entirely fresh - hardened detective shocked back to vivacity by a mysterious crime that hits close to home - but it's embedded within a pretty compelling, well-realized near-future dystopia that has a biting relevance. This is a good take on a Blade Runner-esque scifi/noir story. The juxtaposition between the classic noir PI styling and narration with the dystopian dying world hidden by advancing technology is very intriguing and I look forward to the next issue. This is very good and right up my street. His work is usually simple investigations, following husbands who prefer to 'veil' their wives into someone or something else. This time it is a noir style murder mystery set in a dystopian future where people us 'veils' to hide the real world and see what they want to see instead.įormer policeman and current Private Eye Sam Dunes, prefers to stay 'clear' and see the world how it is. While I wait for the next issues of We Have Demons (comiXology Originals) #2 and Night of the Ghoul (comiXology Originals) #3, I couldn't resist starting a third Scott Snyder Comixology Original series. Why not veil the world in '1940's black-and-white glamour? Or in a happy-happy cartoon'? Believe it or not, veiling caught on slower here in the states than in other countries, but once we lost the red ware hell, we were off to the races. Sure, the superstructure is still there, but the look, the 's all up to you. Your mind the hard drive, your eyes the screen.

We're living circuit boards, after all.it was only a matter of time. Big tech making something that we could hook into directly. It started with the evolution of the internet.