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 trashcan 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?
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.
After locating their quarry, Detectives Delphi and Swon find it hard to believe the identity of their murderous foe and his unique connection to Mind Management. However, the detectives discover that their employer has been manipulating their operatives from the very beginning. Now, armed with the knowledge that Mind Management might be the root behind Swon’s missing memories, he can’t trust the agency, his mission, nor his partner Delphi . . . Will he be able to uncover the truth, or is it all just a ploy targeting Mind Management from the inside out?
Mind MGMT: New & Improved #4 is written by and art by Matt Kindt with cover A by Kindt, B by Martín Morrazo, plus a 1:10 full art variant by Morazzo, 1:20 3-D variant by Kindt, and 1:50 variant by Patricia Martín. It arrives in shops September 30, 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 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.
If you are reading this, you have been invited to participate in a very special program designed to entertain, enlighten, and enhance your perception of Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1– the “first issue” of the brand-new beginning for New York Times best-selling writer/artist Matt Kindt‘s groundbreaking comic masterpiece arriving on June 24th from Oni Press and Flux House.
When Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 arrives on shelves – featuring a die-cut standard cover by Matt Kindt himself – it will also be accompanied by a mystifying token of the ongoing war for the psychic control of America’s heart and mind. Enter: Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1– Operation: Blind Bag – a fin-sealed, metallic silver “blind bag” containing everything you need to know to escape the reach of the subliminal surveillance agency called “Mind Management.”
On the outside: A new training protocol designed and written by Matt Kindtwith instructions on how to deploy the “blind bag” in your possession to withstand psychic attack by the forces of paranoia and control.
And on the inside –Operation: Blind Bag commences with an artistic assault on the senses as each blind bag reveals one of 15 exclusive, chase, or rare variant covers spanning four distinct subsets with strictly limited print runs in a manner of aesthetically pleasing alternatives to stimulate your third eye
ARTIST VARIANT SUBSET
A curated line of artistic interpretations heralding Mind MGMT’s return, featuring Jenna Cha, Jeff Lemire, Jesse Lonergan, Fábio Moon, and David Rubín.
NOTE: These covers will be evenly divided across the print run once all rare and chase subset covers have been accounted for.
“ERROR” EDITIONS BY MATT KINDT SUBSET
In the process of manufacturing and distributing Matt Kindt‘s open-order, die-cut cover for Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1, it appears that some unfortunate errors accidentally made their way into the blind bagging process, including Korean import and 3-D versions never intended for commercial distribution.
CHASE FOIL SUBSET
Limited edition variants of Jesse Lonergan and J.H. Williams III cover art, reproduced without trade dress on foil stock.
HYPER-RARE “U.S.S.A.” VARIANT SUBSET
Featuring guest starring roles from Lee Harvey Oswald, Patty Hearst, Charles Manson, Richard Nixon, the command module of Apollo 11, and more, this hyper-rare variant subset consists of six covers unearthing America’s secret history of mind control and information warfare across the 20th Century, as rendered by artist and designer Scott Sugiuchi.
NOTE: One of these covers is a hallucination and will never actually exist. Sorry, and thank you for playing!
NEW AGENTS. NEW MISSION. NEW BEGINNING. . .Oni Press and Flux House revealed a first look inside of MIND MGMT: New & Improved #1 – the FIRST ISSUE of 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.” Sit back, relax, and feel your pulse steadily escalate to dangerous levels of over-adrenalized anxiety as New York Times best-selling creator and multiple Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Matt Kindt returns to the scene of his definitive statement on the art of psychic espionage.
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 trashcan 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 will arrive in comic shops in June 2026.
Netflix and Dark Horse Entertainment have extended their first look deal. Under this multi-year deal, Dark Horse will continue to give Netflix a first look at its IP for both film and TV.
Netflix and Dark Horse recently collaborated on the third season of The Umbrella Academy, which in its first four weeks reached the Netflix Global Top 10 in TV in 91 countries with 283.55M hours viewed (as of July 17, 2022)
New projects in active development under the Dark Horse Entertainment banner include:
Bang! starring Idris Elba and directed by David Leitch
Based on the comic series by Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres, the feature film adaptation of this stylish spy thriller will be written by Kindt and Zak Olkewicz
Producers: Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg for Dark Horse, David Leitch and Kelly McCormick for 87 North, and Idris Elba
When a terrorist cult sets out to start the apocalypse with a series of novels meant to brainwash their readers, the world’s most celebrated spy is sent to track down and kill the author responsible.
Mind MGMT with Curtis Gwinn set to Executive Produce this series adaptation of the comic book series by Matt Kindt
A young woman stumbles onto the top-secret Mind Management program. Her ensuing journey involves weaponized psychics, hypnotic advertising, talking dolphins, and seemingly immortal pursuers, as she attempts to find the man who was MIND MGMT’s greatest success – and its most devastating failure. But in a world where people can rewrite reality itself, can she trust anything she sees?
Executive Producers: Curtis Gwinn, and Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg for Dark Horse
Next up for Dark Horse is the 8 episode series Grendel, based on the classic comic by Matt Wagner. Andrew Dabb created the series, which is in post-production.
Previous Dark Horse Entertainment releases include the Netflix film Polar, starring Mads Mikkelsen, the Netflix animated series Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, returning later this year with Season 2, and the animated film Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness, which recently spent four weeks on the Netflix TV (English) Top 10.
(W) Matt Kindt (A/CA) Farel Dalrymple (VCA) Daniel Brereton, Marguerite Sauvage In Shops: Jul 06, 2022 SRP: $3.99
MIND MGMT is: weird, mind-blowing, paranoid storytelling. It is the first ever comic book from Flux House, Matt Kindt’s all-new imprint which features crime, science fiction, and humor stories, all told in startling and untraditional ways. Upcoming publications will take many forms, and the polybagged variant versions of MIND MGMT will contain a card that is playable as a playing card or as part of a new Flux House game. Previously in MIND MGMT: a covert government agency of psychic superspies fell into oblivion after one of their top agents went rogue. What looked like the end was only the beginning as a former leader of MIND MGMT explores the darkest parts of the world and recruits a team of forgotten agents to rebuild the organization, bend reality, and go to war with a competing agency.
Cover C variant is a special polybagged cover, drawn by Marguerite Sauvage, and contains a special Mind MGMT playing card!
Mind MGMT is back in multiple ways. The organization that “protects” freedom is being rebuilt after the events of the previous volume and recruiting new individuals for their mission. Mind MGMT Bootleg #1 kicks things off with a story that builds off of what has come before while also setting out with its own style and narrative.
Set in a world filled with telepathic/telekinetic/superpowered spies, Mind MGMT Bootleg #1 picks up after the destruction of Zanzibar and a young man sucked into being recruited by a new Mind MGMT. What’s this new organization about and are they on the side of good? Writer Matt Kindt delivers enough teases and doubt to know this series isn’t going to be as straightforward as one might hope.
It’s not until much later in the comic does this debut tie itself more into the first volume delivering a richer reader for those who experienced it. While you don’t need to read it, the world of Mind MGMT is so much more for those that experience it all, that includes a board game. Kindt has crafted a world where every small detail builds and one has to spend time examining every clue and comment.
That includes with Mind MGMT Bootleg #1. Farel Dalrymple continues Kindt’s tradition of layered art. Not only do we get the main story but panels and even pages are filled with text that add depth to the world and speak directly to the reader at times making them part of the story. Dalrymple forgoes the rather deep material in the margins for this use of panels making a more playful read that is more like an interactive comic than the previous volume’s puzzle. Though Dalrymple’s style differs from Kindt’s first volume, the art still feels very much of this world in its dreamlike state.
Mind MGMT Bootleg #1 is a welcome return of the property to comics. It continues the layered fun that was the first volume and does so in a way that new readers can dive in and longtime fans can get excited for what comes next. Mind MGMT Bootleg #1 isn’t just a comic, it’s an interactive experience.
(W) Matt Kindt (A/CA) Farel Dalrymple (VCA) Daniel Brereton, Marguerite Sauvage In Shops: Jul 06, 2022 SRP: $3.99
MIND MGMT is: weird, mind-blowing, paranoid storytelling. It is the first ever comic book from Flux House, Matt Kindt’s all-new imprint which features crime, science fiction, and humor stories, all told in startling and untraditional ways. Upcoming publications will take many forms, and the polybagged variant versions of MIND MGMT will contain a card that is playable as a playing card or as part of a new Flux House game. Previously in MIND MGMT: a covert government agency of psychic superspies fell into oblivion after one of their top agents went rogue. What looked like the end was only the beginning as a former leader of MIND MGMT explores the darkest parts of the world and recruits a team of forgotten agents to rebuild the organization, bend reality, and go to war with a competing agency.
Cover C variant is a special polybagged cover, drawn by Marguerite Sauvage, and contains a special Mind MGMT playing card!
