After all, someone has just fucked with his sandwich!

When a piece of Van Der Zee’s son is found in Vivek’s sandwich, Vivek decides to take the case. And without that photograph, her ghost, the ghost of the dead mistress, no longer appears and has sex with Ven Der Zee. Someone has stolen a photograph of his dead mistress. John Van Der Zee, a serious financial guy, comes to Vivek with a problem. Vivek is very wealthy and even smarter and lives high above New York City. Warren Ellis has said that this a Sherlock Holmes story and Vivek is taken directly from that mold. The first volume introduced the characters, showed how the Injection came to be and what it’s capable of, Wayland the Smith is summoned, and someone is skinned alive. Each of them throws something into the pot. They discover, through all the scenarios that they run, that future will be a flat line – no more massive rate of change, no advancement. Marie (anthropologist), Simeon (spy), Vivek (detective), Brigid (hacker), and Robin (cunning man ). In the first volume of Injection five people get together under the aegis of a shadowy corporate think tank to run scenarios about the future and to figure out what might be coming down the pike. He’s so very fucking good at what he does. He’s put words together in combinations that make me wish for a precisely targeted neurological event that would leave me unable to ever write again. Which is to say, Warren Ellis has done it again. A clue that leads to alchemical criminal organizations, vaginal ectoplasm, and the learning curve of a non-human artificial intelligence that was injected into the Internet in order to stop the future from being boring. Volume 2 starts with the discovery of artisanal human ham in a sandwich. It’s all going to be about sandwiches, in the end, I just know it.

by Nomadic War Machine from the I have a gun. Review Soundtrack: Some people are only alive because it’s illegal to kill them.

Injection, Vol. 2 by Warren Ellis