Torment

Unknown 9: Torment is a comic book series following Jaden Crowe as he is inducted into a mysterious society and discovers his unbelievable destiny.

When his best friend Neeka invites him to a press conference held by the mysterious Leap Year Society, he foils an assassination attempt and is thrust into a dangerous world in which both his life and his sanity are on the line.

"In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody. When the lightning flashed, I saw that what I had thought to be a city was in fact a deserted plain and, in the same sinister light that revealed me to myself, there seemed to be no sky above it."

- Fernando Pessoa

Puzzles
As in most of Unknown 9 media, comic books contain some puzzles aswell.

Issue 1
When Jaden enters the kitchen, there's a clear shot at the memo note sticked to a fridge. It reads: "00009000009009""00900H90909D00""ES9E9ID09PTAOF""FE90LHM9LEA00""AE909AT00YG00""0NH0099090990"To solve this puzzle, you need to build a 9x9 grid and fill it with characters from the memo left to right, top to bottom row. In result, you'll get: If you read the highlighted letters from top to bottom row, from left to right column, you'll get "HE PLAYS THE GAME OF LIFE AND DEATH".

Possible explanations

 * It could be a reference to "The Game of Life and Death", a modern take on "Conway's Game of Life".