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PREVIOUSLY… Ben Fischer helped build the world’s greatest surveillance system, Golden Shield, which utilizes every camera, cell phone, and computer in San Francisco to battle crime. There’s only one problem: Golden Shield won’t work without a human mind to operate it, and Homeland Security is about to pull its funding. When a chemical attack on the subway takes Ben’s sight, his friend and boss, Owen, replaces Ben’s eyes with optical cameras and neuro-hardware which allow Ben to integrate with and see through the very system he created. Which sounds amazing, until...
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Written by ERIC GARCIA Pencils and Inks by JAVIER FERNANDEZ Colors by MARK ENGLERT Letters by TROY PETERI Story Edited by RENAE GEERLINGS Design by STEVE BLACKWELL IDW Publishing Edits by SARAH GAYDOS
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