MIND MGMT is a brilliant, mind-bending story about a woman who needs answers for phenomenons that simply don’t have answers. Matt Kindt writes, draw, letters, and colours his first ever solo ongoing series, MIND MGMT. It’s all connected and begins to unravel the tale surrounding a group referred to as “Mind Management”.

Henry Lyme, The Immortals, The CIA, and Meru.

Things only get weirder for Meru when she discovers she’s being trailed by the CIA during her search for Henry Lyme and that they may be the only people who can attempt to keep her safe from a mysterious pair called “The Immortals”. When Meru arrives she discovers a village of starved bodies and thousands of empty pots, unable to shake the feeling that this is somehow connected to Flight 815. Meru’s agent’s patience has grown thin from her lack of recent success but he sends her away on a mysterious assignment to Mexico to help her with her new book. Two years after the accident, a somewhat successful writer named Meru decides to take the plunge to try to track down Henry Lyme for her next book, even if it takes her to the edge of the Earth. After a careful examination of the flight manifest, the world is set into a state of uproar and curiosity when it is revealed that there was actually 211 passengers on the plane, with one Henry Lyme never being interviewed or found. By some form of a miracle, the plane is landed safely and all the passengers disembark which leads to another layer of peculiar mystery surrounding the plane. Shocked, scared, and racing to survive, the passengers are confused and in disbelief as they can’t even recognize themselves. The 210 passengers on Flight 815 all suddenly forget who they are or what they are doing on the plane. The book received strong critical acclaim, with the first collected edition being on the New York Times Bestseller list for two weeks. In 2012, Matt Kindt began releasing his first ever solo ongoing series, MIND MGMT, through Dark Horse. Kindt continued working with Top Shelf as well as other publishers including Dark Horse and Vertigo, producing plenty of well-received spy related work. It was nominated for a Harvey Award the following year as well as being well received by critics yet it still remained a relatively obscure title.

In 2001 he published his first graphic novel through Top Shelf Entertainment called Pistolwhip.

Back in the 90’s, Kindt worked in the local mini-comics scene, basing himself out of St.Louis, Missouri. Matt Kindt is perhaps best known for his comic works largely involving spies and general espionage. Each week I’ll take a look at a different writer and read two different collected editions from within that person’s repertoire to help in the examination of their work.

Rai, Volume 1 by Matt Kindt