As Robert Downy Jr said in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, “Your case and my case are the same #$%^& case.” Snyder is taking us on a classic Noir mystery in a world continually losing its reality. And we all know how these Noir stories work. Of course, the “suicide” might not be as it seems. On the same day he finds out that his ex-wife, a beautiful blonde, killed herself, his client, a dark-haired, by-the-book femme fatale (in the best way), offers him a compelling job. Most of his cases are getting evidence that someone’s spouse is replacing them with a filter – the new form of cheating. He’s divorced, lonely, dresses cool but like he’s not trying, and has a motorcycle helmet with weird eyes (as seen on the cover). Snyder’s character fits snuggly between Phillip Marlowe (Raymond Chandler’s detective) and Patrick Kenzie (Dennis Lehane’s). He’s the gruff, down-and-out private investigator we know and love. Ironically, you need a filter to negate the other filters, and they’re more expensive than artificial filters. Are you tired of seeing your spouse day-in and day-out? You can put a filter over them.īut then there are people like Sam Dunes, the hero of the ComiXology Originals title, who wants to stay, well, clear. Or do the neon-lit cities of Tron suit your fancy? Well, you can do that too. Want to live in Middle-Earth? There’s a filter for that. When you walk down the street, you see whatever it is you want to see. Imagine if you can use an Instagram filter over your entire life. But the sci-fi elements make this noir comic even more compelling. A private eye and former Police Detective is on a routine, tedious job when everything goes to hell. On the surface, it’s the classic Noir setup. Scott Snyder’s Clear Puts the “Original” in ComiXology Originalsĭescribing this book is simultaneously much more complex and more straightforward than We Have Demons. In fact, Clear was even better than We Have Demons.

But fear not! With Clear #1, Scott Snyder and ComiXology prove that the Best Jacket Press originals live up to the imprint’s name. Indeed, it was so good, you’d be justified in worrying that the following seven titles would progressively get worse. Of course, that title is pure Snyder/Capullo and as insane as you’d expect it to be. Last week, we got the writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo’s collaboration We Have Demons #1, launching the writer’s eight ComiXology exclusives.

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