Back Door Connection is, at its core, a story about loneliness. Cipher has not spoken to another human face-to-face for 1,247 days (a countdown timer appears in the corner of several panels, a meta-textual reminder). The "connection" in the title is ironic: the only intimacy Cipher experiences is through the back door, a secret pathway into the minds of others.
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He could see the hesitation—these weren’t amateurs. They knew how to take a thing and make it look like an accident. He was a practical man. Practical men calculated risks. Back Door Connection is, at its core, a