by Matt KindtI love the fact that it's not until the end of this third issue that the words 'Mind MGMT' are even mentioned in the main story. Since this series began, we have been following Meru, a True Crime writer who has been trying to track down Henry Lyme, a mysterious figure who may have been responsible for an entire airplane full of people contracting total amnesia at the same time.
Meru has been chased by Immortals - unkillable agents of some sort of organization (Mind MGMT?) and aided by a CIA agent, a crazy woman who writes long rambling prose on a typewriter in Zanzibar, and now a talking dolphin (okay, a spelling dolphin) and an old Chinese man who tells her a legend.
There is definitely a sense of a trail of breadcumbs being left for Meru, a fact that is confirmed by the narrator (who is also revealed this month).
Kindt is taking his time getting this series up and under way, and that is one of the things that I love about it most. All of the information we have about Mind MGMT so far has come from the short strips on the inside cover (called 'The Second Floor') and the case files that make up the last two pages of each issue. What is slowly emerging is an organization that has influenced advertising and popular media for almost a century, whose goals are unknown to us.
Is Meru going to expose and write about the group? Are they recruiting her? I'm not too sure what's going to happen, but I do know that I like the way Kindt is writing this, and I love his art. With its washed-out colour scheme and yellowed paper, it is like nothing else on the stands right now.
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