Hacktivity #1
"The Brotherhood of Evil Geeks"
A TV News crew arrives and for some unexplainable reason the reporter has no idea what is going on or who the case involves. In a comic as in our reality where the media is such a large part of the deal this is a huge misstep. Obviously, any protest that large over such a hot button issue would be packed with well informed, ready to go reporters. For a moment it takes you out of the world that the comic had been creating up to that point.
His work seems effortless, and is really a treat to look at and pour over. While leaning a bit to the side of the hacker TF and his plight, I still came away feeling it was a balanced comic.
With the great script and amazing artwork, this is a title I will definitely be watching out for. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
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Hacktivity #1
Will he go quietly into a hellish nightmare of a prison sentence? To put things bluntly, at the current moment Shawn is facing a complete shitstorm in that the book begins with him being found guilty of a hacking related felony. In the ensuing fracas, Shawn overhears the police announce that they are their to arrest Shawn, not realizing that they have the wrong guy.
Shawn hurriedly shoots off a message to the other hackers in his community and tries to make a run for it.
The details of the case and the public reaction are show to us through various interviews, tumblr posts, and Tweets, which I thought added a sense of realism to the world of the story. The reaction on the internet mainly supports Shawn, while the older types of media represented by TV News in this case , seem to mainly be echoing the talking points of the government authorities prosecuting Shawn.
Instead of intelligently and calmly discussing the issue, their main objective would be to scare viewers by warning them of some non-specific menace with a low probability of ever happening to the average citizen. The Judge has her home address and phone number revealed to the public and the DA has a video of him basically beating off on Chatroullete stolen from his computer, then released to the media.
They pose as police officers and manage to break Shawn out of prison during a transfer from the jail to the courthouse. I liked this unexpected turn of events, but at the same time I could have used some more detail behind the brazen abduction. Who are these hackers?
How did they get their hands on not only police uniforms, but an entire police car?