Vaughan doesn’t swell too much on this for the moment, leaving aside any temptation to moralise. In their efforts to hide from the world, everybody now wears a mask or holographic facial mask, or paints their face – in essence, everybody becomes a totally unique individual. Not particularly a unique concept, but the creative team use it for some excellent sight gags, creating an uneven sense of humour which moves through every page of the issue. The Private Eye is set after this event, focusing on the public backlashing against their previous happiness to make themselves open books. Families collapse, businesses fall, and it looks like the press get put on an extremely tight leash. As everybody nowadays shares everything about themselves with the rest of the world, private photos, conversations, bank details, and everything gets shown to everyone else. Every inch of private information gets made public, with massive damage worldwide. The premise of The Private Eye is that at some point the internet basically implodes, probably through nefarious means.
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