The comic opens with flight 815 where everyone forgets everything and everyone they ever knew. The pilots have to be told how to land the plane. Families don't recognize each other. Meru is a writer who had just finished writing her unsolved true crime book that would become a best seller. Now she is drifting trying to find something to write about next. She lands on the idea to write about the missing man, Henry Lyme, from the amnesia plane. She tells her agent who responds that she needs to stop chasing that story and just sit down and write something, but if she insists on chasing it she's not sending any money.
Meru interviews the passengers but learns nothing new. Her agent gets a tip about something weird going on in Mexico and wires her some money to check it out. These people have no memory but keep painting the same thing over and over again on pots. They are dying of starvation because they are obsessed with painting the pots and nothing else. The picture is of an animal that resembles folk art of Zanzibar.
Meanwhile, Meru has been followed by two groups of people: the CIA and the Immortals. Both hope she will lead them to Henry Lyme. The CIA guy, Bill, helps her out and protects her from the Immortals. Nothing can kill an Immortal except a headshot and maybe not even that. The Immortals worked for Mind Management a shadowy agency who recruit people with certain abilities.
This was an interesting book that contained writing from the Mind MGMT Field Guide on the left edge of the page in tiny writing that would pertain to what was going on in that particular page. For example: Minimize physical evidence when performing in-field erasures. If time allows, sweep the area and contact Cadaver Disposal within 24 hours if applicable. On the opposite page is a man discovering a dead body. The artwork is very minimalist and sketchy but perfect for the story it is telling. I have to tell you this was a weird comic, but weird in a good way. I intend to read the next volume to find out where on earth it goes next because it could really go anywhere.
Link to Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/MIND-MGMT-Manager-Matt-Kindt-ebook/dp/B00BUAMHAK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1520601437&sr=1-1&keywords=mind+mgmt&dpID=61w0qSXKnnL&preST=_SY445_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
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