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Preview: Mind MGMT/Fort Psycho FCB 2026 Special

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Oni Press and Flux House have revealed an extended look inside the Mind MGMT/Fort Psycho FCB 2026 Special, only available this Saturday on May 2nd for Free Comic Book Day 2026! The radical piece of shrapnel-laced propaganda will introduce readers to the shadowy world of Mind MGMT: New & Improved – the compulsively page-turning new series from New York Times best-selling creator Matt Kindt tracking Mind Management, the secretive agency rumored to influence global affairs from the shadows through assassination, sabotage, and psychic espionage. Featuring two exclusive and brand-new stories unavailable elsewhere, the Mind MGMT/Fort Psycho FCB 2026 Special marks the first official release from Kindt’s new signature publishing imprint Flux House at Oni Press and will beavailable in participating local comic shops everywhere this Saturday, May 2nd.

Welcome to Mind MGMT: New & Improved! In the hands of our elite instructors, you will be schooled in the exotic arts of mental manipulation, information warfare, subliminal conditioning, and more. This comic book is part of your training, so read on to discover who we are, who we are fighting, and why our lives are no longer our own in this self-contained, educational introduction to the vast underground network we call Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1, as written and drawn by Matt Kindt. Fear not: The voices in your head can tell no lies!

In addition to your introduction the world of Mind MGMT: New & Improved, the Mind MGMT/Fort Psycho FCB 2026 Special will also contain an all-new, high-octane prelude to the events of Fort Psycho #1 – the extreme action action comic locking a strike team of highly trained covert operatives trapped on a secret island prison with no hope of escape, as they contend with secret betrayals, and the long-buried truth about the mission that brought them there. The two-fisted spectacle of subversion leads directly into two of the year’s biggest creator-owned comics launches: June’s Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 by Matt Kindt and August’s Fort Psycho #1 by Kindt and co-creator/artist Brian Hurtt.

  • Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1: Ten years ago, the extra-governmental agency known as Mind Management exploded in a barrage of bullets and brain matter. Those that survived have gone underground—forging new lives with unremarkable identities and falsified pasts to obfuscate the strange abilities that once made them highly prized assets in the global war for psychic control. Now, two investigators—Detective Delphi and Detective Swon—have found themselves at the center of an unexpected puzzle. Here: A man poisoned in a coffee shop with a sophisticated neurotoxin. There: A supposed suicide victim run over by a train . . . with his arms found in a trash can five miles from the tracks. Their connection: Someone is killing former Mind Management agents in improbable and arcane ways . . . Seemingly impossible crimes committed by a faceless killer capable of evading even the most pervasive digital surveillance. What secret are they killing to protect? Who will be next? Has Mind Management returned? Did it ever go away? You are paranoid . . . but are you paranoid enough?
  • Fort Psycho #1: BOOM! BANG! DUCK! For the international commandos codenamed SHIV, LYCAN, and DRAGONFLY, a routine mission to catch-and-kill a fugitive from the world’s most wanted terror sect is about to go very, very wrong. Who are THE SEVEN SEALS? And what terrible price will the men and women of Fort Psycho pay to bring them to justice? Find out when Fort Psycho #1 launches its attack on readers this August!
Mind MGMT/Fort Psycho FCB 2026 Special

Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 Kicks Off a Whole New Mind Fuck

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Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1

Ten years ago, the extra-governmental agency known as Mind Management exploded in a barrage of bullets and brain matter. Those that survived have gone underground—forging new lives with unremarkable identities and falsified pasts to obfuscate the strange abilities that once made them highly prized assets in the global war for psychic control. Now, two investigators—Detective Delphi and Detective Swan—have found themselves at the center of an unexpected puzzle. Here: A man poisoned in a coffee shop with a sophisticated neurotoxin. There: A supposed suicide victim run over by a train . . . with his arms found in a trash can five miles from the tracks. Their connection: Someone is killing former Mind Management agents in improbable and arcane ways . . . Seemingly impossible crimes committed by a faceless killer capable of evading even the most pervasive digital surveillance. What secret are they killing to protect? Who will be next? Has Mind Management returned? Did it ever go away? You are paranoid . . . but are you paranoid enough? Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 is a whole new volume… or is it a new start… or is it a continuation of what came before…

Matt Kindt‘s Mind MGMT is an experience to read. It’s a comic whose mystery and oddity extends beyond the page to the margins, between the panels, the introduction of the comic, the back of it, everything is part of the story and world. It’s one whose every detail tells the story and expands the experience. Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 dives right into that with a credit page that goes on and on introducing the comic and world in what has come before. But, that doesn’t matter… or does it… is it continuity… is it all fiction, a lie… That’s part of what makes this new series so much fun.

Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 is new and improved in some ways, playing with its concept and delivering it in a way that new readers can dive right into the world of manipulation and longtime fans can sit pondering if everything they read before matters. It starts with a mindfuck and goes from there.

The story itself feels straightforward, someone is killing possibly former agents and two agents need to find out who and why. It’s about as simple as you can get. But, it’s Kindt’s delivery of it that sucks you in, making you question your own reality and what you do and don’t know is fact.

The art adds to the experience with Kindt’s distinct style that has an almost watercolor quality about it. The art is one that readers need to pay attention to because you never know what detail is hidden within delivering a clue as to what’s real and what’s not. It’s a seamless continuation of the style that was prevalent in previous volumes, down to the fun additions beyond the panels.

Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 is a perfect start for new readers, easing them into the rabbit hole. Fans will appreciate being left to guess if this is really a new start or a continuation of the weirdness that has come before. It’s an issue that can be read either way creating a mystery that’ll suck you in. It’s a welcome return to what hopefully will be a long run and further expansion of the world.

Story: Matt Kindt Art: Matt Kindt
Story: 8.5 Art: 8.5 Overall: 8.5 Recommendation: Buy

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Matt Kindt’s Mind MGMT — New & Improved #1 Redacts Reality on June 24th! Check out the Video Trailer!

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WELCOME TO MIND MGMT … IT’S LIKE YOU NEVER LEFT. Oni Press and Flux House have revealed a first look at an all-new video trailer for Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 – the long-awaited first issue of New York Times best-selling cartoonist and multiple Eisner Award nominee Matt Kindt’s return to his defining statement on psychic espionage. Kicking off with an all-new, entirely self-contained entry point into the genre-bending, Eisner Award–nominated series that Entertainment Weekly calls “one of the most experimental and fascinating books in mainstream comics,” your descent into a world of psychic warfare and sabotage through subversion when Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 materializes in comic shops everywhere on June 24th, 2026!

Ten years ago, the extra-governmental agency known as Mind Management exploded in a barrage of bullets and brain matter. Those that survived have gone underground—forging new lives with unremarkable identities and falsified pasts to obfuscate the strange abilities that once made them highly prized assets in the global war for psychic control. Now, two investigators—Detective Delphi and Detective Swon—have found themselves at the center of an unexpected puzzle. Here: A man poisoned in a coffee shop with a sophisticated neurotoxin. There: A supposed suicide victim run over by a train . . . with his arms found in a trash can five miles from the tracks. Their connection: Someone is killing former Mind Management agents in improbable and arcane ways . . . Seemingly impossible crimes committed by a faceless killer capable of evading even the most pervasive digital surveillance. What secret are they killing to protect? Who will be next? Has Mind Management returned? Did it ever go away? You are paranoid . . . but are you paranoid enough?

Featuring a specialty die-cut cover and 32 pages of content written, drawn, colored, lettered, and designed by Kindt himself, Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 will also include “OPERATION: BLIND BAG” – a specially manufactured “blind bag” containing one of 15 exclusive, chase, or rare variant covers spanning four distinct subsets from some of Kindt’s closest and most acclaimed collaborators, including Jenna Cha, Jeff Lemire, Jesse Lonergan, Fábio Moon, David Rubín, Scott Suguichi, and J.H. Williams III.

Pre-order Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 with your local comic shop retailer no later than Monday April 27th, 2026.

Mariko Tamaki and Brenda Hickey Celebrate Celluloid in Adventure Time: Quadruple Feature #1

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TAKE YOUR SEATS! THE SHOW IS ABOUT TO START IN A BRAND-NEW ADVENTURE TIME COMICS EVENT! Oni Press and Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products have announced Adventure Time: Quadruple Feature #1 (of 4), the first issue in a spellbinding four-issue ode to the (literal!) magic of the movies from multiple Eisner Award-winning writer Mariko Tamaki and enchanting artist Brenda Hickey, starting with an all-new screwball scenario starring Jake, Marceline, BMO, and Lumpy Space Princess in comic shops everywhere this July!   

Our friendly foursome has just arrived at their local movie theater with four very different ideas of what to watch. What’s a stretchy dog, a vampire queen, a princess, and, er, BMO to do? Easy! Four separate tickets, please! Jake’s up first, and his showing of the famed 1940s screwball comedy What’s Up, Princess? (What do you mean you’ve never heard of the famed 1940s screwball comedy What’s Up, Princess?!) cranks up the heat! Fast-paced action, faster-paced quips, highfalutin dames, fellas in over their heads, and a host of familiar faces explode across the silver screen in this love letter to genre and cinema! 

The perfect ticket for longtime fans and new readers alike, don’t miss the quirky comic book blockbuster of the summer when Adventure Time: Quadruple Feature #1 hits movie screens—oh, sorry, comic shops—near you with magically movie-inspired covers from Brenda Hickey, Ben Turner, Andy Price, and Jaki King. Enjoy the show!

Dead Teenagers #2 builds upon the mystery but dials back the humor

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Dead Teenagers #2

For five friends, being trapped in an infinite loop of murder on Prom Night ’97 was living hell. They’re about to find out that being an adult in 2026 is much, much worse. High school seniors J.T., Ryder, and Brandy have been catapulted through time into their adult bodies. Physically, they’re now elder millennials with jobs and families. Psychologically, they’re damaged teenagers with disposable income who are about to discover the consequences of making poor life choices. Even worse, not everyone thinks their new circumstances are an improvement over being ritualistically murdered every 24 hours. Does their never-ending prom night massacre hold the key to finding out how and why they were chosen to live out this supernatural torment? Dead Teenagers #2 is an interesting second issue that builds upon the mystery of what’s going on but doesn’t have the same humor that made the first one entertaining.

Dead Teenagers #2 is an interesting second issue of a series. The concept is simple, a group of teenagers die over and over by some mysterious force. We don’t know why or if it can be stopped. While that could be interesting on its own, the first issue of the series took us through numerous scenarios of exactly how that was happening. Each scenario was more ridiculous than the last and it all came together for a debut that had a sense of humor about itself instead of just delivering straight gory horror. The second issue focuses on one potential path as our group takes stock of what’s going on and attempt to live their lives under this strange circumstance. Beyond an opening scene though, the humor is lacking and overall that shifts the tone of the series.

If you’d ask me to describe the first issue, I’d have said comedic horror. In Dead Teenagers #2, writer Jude Ellison S. Doyle delivers something a bit different narrowing down the focus of the series and overall dialing back the laughs. There’s still some of them, but the comic really focuses on the group living their lives and struggling to remember exactly what’s going on. It’s more of a spotlight on the mystery of it all. While not bad, it’s still a shift with a more serious feel of it all.

The art by Caitlin Yarsky straddles things along with the lettering by Becca Carey. There’s a mix of sadness of what’s going on but there’s still an enthusiasm by some of the characters that matches a bit of the debut issue. What’s interesting too is how mundane things rather are. They’re living their lives and those lives are just rather bland overall. There isn’t a sense of dread or fear, it just is visually. But, still, it feels like a quiet before the storm when it comes to the art and the final few pages delivers that.

While the debut issue delivered laughs, Dead Teenagers #2 goes for a more somber vibe. It’s an interesting shift and we’ll see if the series as a whole goes more towards the horror path as it progresses. It’s an intriguing series overall with a nice mystery to it.

Story: Jude Ellison S. Doyle Art: Caitlin Yarsky Letterer: Becca Carey
Story: 7.5 Art: 7.5 Overall: 7.5 Recommendation: Read

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Estuary: A Ghost Story #1 is a solid debut that has an intriguing premise and really builds tension

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OUT OF THE BLOODSTAINED PAST OF OLD CALIFORNIA . . . A DIFFERENT KIND OF DEVIL IS RISING WITH THE TIDE! From rising stars Tim Daniel & David “D.B.” Andry (Crush Depth, Morning Star) and modern horror virtuoso Maan House (Mine is a Long Lonesome Grave) comes a chilling tale of secrets buried deep beneath the surf of the idyllic California coast . . . Atop a rocky cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean sits the Mission at Arbués Point, a 400-year-old Spanish mission made infamous as one of California’s oldest and most haunted historical sites. But beneath its crumbling, tourist-trap facade, a reclusive nun has spent decades within the Mission’s walls, honing her prayers and practice in pursuit of a secret long-buried beneath the majesty of the chapel, and under the dark waves of the tidal estuary below. When marine archaeologist Maris Cristobal accepts the nun’s offer to begun excavating a fabled shipwreck lying in wait beneath the Mission’s turbulent waters, she’ll soon discover that the sins of past and present are about to wash together into a harrowing surge of a vengeance that can no longer be contained . . .

Story: David “DB” Andry, Tim Daniel
Art: Maan House
Color: Steve Canon
Letterer: Taylor Esposito

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Preview: Estuary: A Ghost Story #1

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Estuary: A Ghost Story #1 (of 4)

(w) Tim Daniel, David “D.B.” Andry (a) Maan House

Atop a rocky cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean sits the Mission at Arbués Point, a 400-year-old Spanish mission made infamous as one of California’s oldest and most haunted historical sites. But beneath its crumbling, tourist-trap facade, a reclusive nun has spent decades within the Mission’s walls, honing her prayers and practice in pursuit of a secret long-buried beneath the majesty of the chapel, and under the dark waves of the tidal estuary below. When marine archaeologist Maris Cristobal accepts the nun’s offer to begin excavating a fabled shipwreck lying in wait beneath the Mission’s turbulent waters, she’ll soon discover that the sins of past and present are about to wash together into a harrowing surge of a vengeance that can no longer be contained . . .

ESTUARY: A GHOST STORY #1

Mind MGMT: New & Improved and Fort Psycho go Print First with Digital Release Delays

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Oni Press has revealed that the first two new series released under superstar creator Matt Kindt’s Flux House imprint will feature an extended window of physical-only availability. Debuting in June and August, respectively, both Mind MGMT: New & Improved and Fort Psycho will be available exclusively at comic book retailers with no digital releases for either series until 30 days after the release of each series’ fourth issue.

Notably both series will also feature an array of specially tailored, print-only upgrades designed to take full advantage of comics as print medium. First: Beginning with an all-new, entirely self-contained entry point into the genre-bending, Eisner Award–nominated series, Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 will feature a specialty die-cut cover and 32 pages of content written, drawn, colored, lettered, and designed by Kindt himself – alongside a specially manufactured “blind bag” containing one of 15 exclusive, chase, or rare variant covers spanning four distinct subsets from some of Kindt’s closest and most acclaimed collaborators, including Jenna Cha, Jeff Lemire, Jesse Lonergan, Fábio Moon, David Rubín, Scott Suguichi, and J.H. Williams III. The series’ first issue will debut in comic shops everywhere on June 24th.

Then: Debuting in August, Fort Psycho #1 (of 12) – the 40-page first issue of the explosive new maxi-series from co-creators Matt Kindt and Brian Hurtt – will maximize the power of comic book storytelling in the most aggressive and high intensity manner ever attempted on the printed page, thanks to a new publishing format called PSYCHO-VISION. Upping the ante with upgrades across all 12 issues in Kindt and Hurtt’s masterclass in super-spy betrayal and subversion, each issue of Fort Psycho will feature panton-keyed covers on 10 pt. cardstock with a maximized, ad-free format brimming with back matter (to say nothing of the violence and harsh language). 

Matt Lesniewski’s Visionary Epic Returns in Faceless and the Family: Maze of the Mechanical Aliens #1 – Coming in July!

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Oni Press has announced Faceless and the Family: Maze of the Mechanical Aliens #1 (of 4) – the first issue of a brand-new chapter for the artistically ambitious and visually spectacular science-fiction epic, torn from the mind of Eisner Award–nominated cartoonist and visionary storyteller Matt Lesniewski! Picking up with an all-new, self-contained adventure in the aftermath of 2024’s Faceless and the Family, Lesniewski’s next artistic tour de force chronicling the adventures of an alien outcast and his misfit team of fellow cosmonauts arrives in comic shops everywhere on July 1st.

The space-faring rogue known as Faceless and his found family of adventurers are about to encounter a new challenge– stronger, stranger, and more perplexing than any they’ve faced before. Roving the backwaters of the class-segregated alien world called the Hand Planet, Faceless is plunged into his most harrowing ordeal yet– bonded to a living suit of extraterrestrial armor that refuses to let him go. As the armor’s inscrutable will tightens its grip, Faceless finds himself physically under siege. Enter a bizarre, labyrinthine world of impossible logic and nightmarish wonder as Faceless and his unlikely family must embark on a harrowing quest to free him– if freedom is even possible.

On July 1st, enter a strange new realm that could only be born from the singular imagination of creator Matt Lesniewski, delivering page after page of jaw-dropping visuals and unsettling surprises, only in Faceless and the Family: Maze of the Mechanical Aliens #1 (of 4) – featuring unearthly covers by Lesniewski with multiple Eisner Award winner Dave Stewart, Kelley Jones with José Villarrubiá, and Noah Bailey!

Faceless and the Family: Maze of the Mechanical Aliens #1

Lewis LaRosa Unleashes a Barrage of Explosive Covers for Fort Psycho From Co-Creators Matt Kindt and Brian Hurt

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Oni Press will release an onslaught of face-melting new covers for Fort Psycho – the brand-new, high-intensity, compulsively page-turning maxi-series from Matt Kindt and acclaimed artist Brian Hurtt—by comics master Lewis LaRosa. LaRosa’s contributions to Fort Psycho will represent his first consistent return to ongoing cover duties for the first time in several years and mark his first all-new project for Oni Press.

Beginning with Fort Psycho #1 (of 12) – hitting stands everywhere in August – LaRosa will join series co-creator and interior artist Brian Hurtt on ongoing shelf covers for the shrapnel-laden, nerve-tightening action epic that will soon unravel the many secrets and betrayals of a team of disgraced secret agents … and the truth about the classified island prison where they have been sent to atone for their innumerable crimes. LaRosa’s raw black-and-white artwork will be made available as additional, incentive covers from Fort Psycho #1 onward through the series’ long-planned, closely held conclusion.

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