Recently I discovered MIND MGMT and...went a little crazy trying to catch up. This is the sort of thing that you read in letters columns all the time (when you find a comic book that has letters columns) but maybe haven't experienced yourself. That was true for me, anyway, until recently.
So I binged. Not the complete series, but a good chunk of it. That makes this the first time I've read a lone issue, a new issue, one piece at a time. However you want to describe it.
Which is to say, did I discover that I made a horrible, horrible mistake, gone temporarily insane (help me!), been brainwashed...or was this a good use of my time after all?
And also, as the cover states, this is part of the final arc of the series, too.
Okay, I'll end the suspense: Kindt's magic is still in effect. Lead character Meru realizes at the end of the issue that until recently she "had nothing to lose." And now she does. She's made an investment, too, become inextricably tied up in the quest to unravel a chain of events that already ended in disaster once (the odd plane incident that began the series), or at least once. She fell in love. Reading an issue with an ending like that is what they mean by "serendipity," folks.
It took me a few issues to realize that Kindt embeds additional layers of storytelling on the margins of most pages. He also includes bonus material that would be unavailable should I attempt to read MIND MGMT in its collected form. I would love to watch Salvador Dali's Triple Indemnity, by the way.
Four issues left to go...
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