Matt Kindt

Into the paranoid world of secret agents with special powers working for an elusive organisation. Mind Mgmt is supposed to be disbanded, its agent's memories wiped clean. But there are indications that Mid Mgmt are still operating. Meru, a writer who has been trapped in a cycle of remembering a terrible past, then forgetting it again, has teamed up with Harry Lyme - the man who, unbeknownst to her keeps wiping her memory of the terrible atrocity he caused - and other ex-Mind Mgmt agents to show more put a stop to it once and for all. They search for the pieces of a map that will lead them to the fabled Mind Mgmt base of Shangri La, but deadly immortals are on their trail, and the mysterious and terrifying Eraser is haunting their every step.

Absolutely cracking tale of secret agents and strange powers and shadowy cabals, packed with action and romance and betrayal and revelations. Intelligent and original in style and execution, and easily the best-designed comic out there. show less

Meru and the Eraser race to recruit ex-Mind Mgmt agents, but Meru's powers are a hindrance and bring about an unwitting disaster when they turn the Magician against them. Brutal battles begin to unfold in which Meru's team are caught off balance and unprepared, and even Duncan's predictive abilities are neutralised. Will any of them survive?

Throughout the series, Kindt has impressed on a sheer technical level, experimenting boldly with his visual storytelling, bending and breaking reality in show more keeping with the tone of paranoia and fake realities and identities and constructed or erased memories. Brilliantly designed, full of fluid, flowing action scenes and disorienting shifts and turns, this is something of a modern comics masterpiece. show less

At the Oscars this series would win all the technical awards and get directing and writing nominations but be entirely shut out of the acting categories. It's quite an achievement, but the cerebral nature kept it from engaging my heart. Well, except maybe for the animal girl.

The grand finale as Meru and her rag-tag team try to enlist anyone to help in their cause while the Eraser continues to remain several steps ahead. But it ain't over til the inverted pyramid headquarters falls, amd Matt Kindts brilliant mind-bending epic of secret powers and secret histories and horrific guilt and redemption reaches a brilliant conlusion. A modern comics masterworks, but by God I'm coming to hate cursive script used in lettering, it's just too tough for my tired old eyes.