Synopsis

            Hacking Human is a comic about a woman and her ghost.  A mercenary with a heart of steel, Selena is a fit for any job that involves shadows and a pinch of force.  That is, until she meets Heinrich.  With backup that can't be killed and an instinct for any job, Selena and Heinrich have risen to the top of the peking order.  Whether it's hacking the computer for a picture of current President George W. Bush in his underwear or tracking down the cold war's most influential female fatale through security webs and child assasains, Hacking Human is a comic where even the best killers need no code, only goals and gold.

Hacking Human chapter breakdown

Hacking Human is a series of stories revolving around Selena and Heinrich, a catburgular/hacker and a ghost respectively.  Together they commit crimes and live their lives without fear of their adventures ever coming to the end, seeking danger where others veer away and taking on tasks others would feel impossible.  Volume one is broken up into six chapters.

Chapter 1-  Selena and Heinrich break into the server room of a bank in order to manipulate money for their own purposes.  Heinrich's possession abilities are introduced and we learn how the two criminals met, in a desert laboratory where Selena freed Heinrich from imprisonment and slumber.  At a loss how to react to the world of the living, especially since he has no memory of before, Heinrich joins Selena in her adventures.

Chapter 2- Selena and Heinrich go to the beach, but promptly separate.  Selena stuns in a bikini and enters an exclusive club to meet with a doped up hacker who Selena seduces.  Selena persuades him to lead her to his apartment where she has Heinrich hypnotize him while she steals a program designed to hack the Pentagon.

Chapter 3-  Leaving Heinich behind once again Selena travels to her father's house to celebrate his birthday.  Amidst her happy reunion she remembers darker times when she had been at odds with him as a teenager, and a flashback occurs showing the two arguing over Selena's lack of interest in socializing.  The scene changes to a maze of cubicles where Selena meets a young hacker with whom she falls in love, developing an unhealthy obsession as she stalks him, takes pictures to hang in her closet, and even steals his personal possessions such as pens and underwear.  However once Selena sees him with another woman she strangles him to death with metal wire, making a step in the direction of her future as a career criminal.

Chapter 4-  It is a dark and stormy night and Selena and Heinrich are bored.  Having acquired the government hacking program in chapter 2 for just such an occasion Selena attempts to hack the Pentagon, only to herself become hacked by the mysterious hacker “Bent Willow”.  Upon rebooting her machine she sends Heinrich into cyberspace to help her track her new antagonist, but finds that Bent Willow, is a adolescent girl  whose goal had only been to hack the Pentagon as well, her method being to infect government personal and acquire a password that way.  Feeling relief as well as pity for the girl, Selena decides to help Bent Willow enter the Pentagon mainframe in order to retrieve a picture of current President George W. Bush in his underwear.

Chapter 5- Heinrich feels a strange “pull” and leaves Selena to pursue his absent memories.  While flying around the world he is drawn to a castle and sees cryptic images from another time: a bustling town, a festive ballroom, a black robed man with a bloody ax.  Soon however the hallucinations cease and Heinrich finds himself in a supermarket.  In shock and confusion he returns home.

Chapter 6- Selena is approached by Arnold, a fellow mercenary she is familiar with, to recoup a “favor” from a previous employer.  Together they reminisce before entering a helicopter together flying towards their next mission to be continued in a possible volume 2.