The Unseen Hand is the sort of thing Vertigo was publishing just as I was getting back into comics. By this point, they'd started separating from the mainstream DC Universe even more. Doom Patrol and Animal Man had wrapped about a year prior, and the final issue of Swamp Thing came out the same month this issue did. There were only a few holdovers from the days of Vertigo being the dark little corner of the DCU, which I found disappointing, though I'll admit that Vertigo brought some amazing comics into the world after they stopped doing superhero stuff.
Today's story is a bit run-of-the-mill. Young man finds out he's the inheritor of wealth from a father he never knew who was part of a global, Illuminati-style conspiracy to enslave humankind. Even in 1996, the story was old, and I think I spent too much of this comic waiting for it to differentiate itself from the other stories of this sort. I'm still waiting.
Don't misunderstand; this is a good comic. It's exciting, it's nerve-wracking, the art is kinetic one moment and then beautifully still the next. It's just that it's not a novel enough retelling of this old story to really stand out. But then, I've only read the first issue. You never know where things are going to go.
"There aren't many times in our lives when we can pinpoint the exact moment when everything changes."
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