Mind the Gap #12 – Review

By: Jim McCann (story), Sami Basri (art), Jessica Kholinne (colors)

The Story: There’s only one thing to do with all this psychic pressure—sing your heart out!

The Review: Since this series first began, McCann has made a big fuss over its mysteries.  “Everyone is a suspect,” he insisted.  “No one is innocent!”  At the same time, McCann has been steadily eliminating characters as likely suspects, while piling more and more evidence against others.  By this point, you’ve grown pretty comfortable with your own settled assumptions as to who’s guilty and who’s not.

McCann seems to sense our complacency, as this issue takes some major steps to break us out of it.  It’s one thing to learn that Eddie is “[w]orking both sides,” as his profile in the roll call says; it’s another to see the incredible depth of feeling he secretly has for his sister.  When McCann first revealed Eddie as a double-agent, you couldn’t help holding on to your suspicion, convinced that at some point he’ll betray the group again.  But once you see his tenderness in a rare moment of privacy, you’ll have no choice but to re-evaluate your judgment.