There has been a conspiracy in the 1980s, and it failed. There are over two hundred story pages in All Hail Mammon, and by the end we’ve learned very little beyond names and dates. As far as this is concerned they may not exactly do that, but neither is there an elected official who can stand in their way. Hickman is playing a very long game, toying with the often fostered conspiracy theory that an elite cabal of financiers control the world. When one of their directors is found dead, it opens a police investigation, and because his instincts are at an uncanny level, Detective Theodore Dumas is placed in charge. They combine the acquisition of money with the ceremonies and symbolism of a religion. He returns to those concerns with The Black Monday Murders, presenting a longstanding organisation, the Caina-Kankrin investment bank, uniting Western and Eastern financial traditions. Before becoming known for long and complex superhero sagas Jonathan Hickman had a lot to say about the state of the world, why he thought it was in that state, and who was responsible.
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