Mind MGMT #14

Matt Kindt's Mind MGMT continues its run of brilliantly disquieting covers with this issue, designed to mimic an innocent gardening magazine — complete with cheerful headlines about "Worm Food & Wood Chippers," "Weed Killers With Common Household Items," and "Landscaping Shortcuts with Fertilizer & Ammonium Nitrate." A red-haired woman kneels in the grass with a trowel and a case of supplies, while a man stands with his back turned near a white picket fence and a push mower, the whole scene rendered in Kindt's warm, deceptively cozy watercolor style. The suburban normalcy feels just slightly off in the best possible way — this 2013 Dark Horse Originals series remains one of the most formally inventive spy thrillers in comics.