Private parts.

• Author: Suderman, Peter
• Position: Briefly Noted - The Private Eye - Brief article - Book review

Everybody's got a secret in The Private Eye, a 10-issue online-only comic series from writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Marcos Martin. Vaughan's cleverly conceived sci-fi detective tale takes place decades after a sort of privacy apocalypse, in which every digitally hidden secret--from chat logs to financial records to search histories--was made public.

The ensuing backlash created a world in which privacy is a sacred right and an all-consuming obsession: Adults wear masks whenever they are in public, the Internet has been banned, and librarians are gun-toting agents tasked with protecting...