The Mindgator #1

CRITIC REVIEWS

• 6.0

  Comic Bastards - Justin Wood

  Nov 29, 2016

  I didn't love reading The Mindgator, but this is what reading indie comics should be: an act of discovery. I didn't know who Mulule Jarvis was as a creator before I read this, and now I'm glad that I do; the dude can thrash a pen. I don't demand that indie comics always be perfect to be worth reading, I just want more of them to try something different. Packaging stories according to the principles that major publishers operate under is a wasted opportunity, underestimating and misinterpreting the freedoms that creating without corporate demands allows. Comics are only one step removed from being the most artistically accessible artform to creators after the written word, there being no real limitation on creating grand stories beyond the individual's personal ability with storytelling and illustration. A filmmaker needs millions to tell the kind of story a comic book artist can tell with a pen, a Strathmore artboard, and a flatbed scanner, and it sucks to see people chalking subpar lo Read Full Review