Mind the Gap #16 – Review

By: Jim McCann (story), Rodin Esquejo (art), Jessica Kholinne (colors)

The Story: Elle finds companionship, even after death.

The Review: The last few issues of Mind the Gap were fairly breakneck, compared to the stately pace of its early months, and after that final, game-changing cliffhanger, perhaps we needed a couple months to absorb it all.  Well, we got it; it has been almost exactly two months since we saw Elle’s spirit diving into the unknown and her body stolen.  So refreshed, it’s time to evaluate where the game of Elle stands now, who the players are, and what the end prize is going to be.

McCann answers at least one of those questions directly, almost a little too pointedly, with his opening splash of the cast gathered around Elle’s empty casket at her shotgun funeral.  The arrangement of the characters is not lost on Detective Antoinette Wallace: “Two motley assorted groups, friends and other emotional rabble [on one side]…and an oddly cold and guarded family and their associates on the other?”  But these alliances and oppositions are old news to us; it’s the new players that really interest us.