Mind the Gap #2 – Review

By: Jim McCann (story), Rodin Esquejo & Sonia Oback (art)

The Story: No one likes a show-off, not even when you’re in a coma.

The Review: At this early juncture of a mystery, I rarely go for any serious speculation as to the “who” in “whodunit.”  This seems especially important here since we really know very little about our victim at this point other than a theater background and a luxury upbringing.  We still only have a vague sense as to the nature of her relationships.  We can’t even confidently say the personality she displays in the Garden is the same as in the waking world.

Without a firmer grasp on all these things, it’d be quite a stretch to have a culprit, even a theoretical one, in mind since the most important factor is missing: motive.  At the end of the day, that really is the deciding element in why any of a mystery’s conflict happens in the first place.  And that’s not even accounting for completely out-of-the-blue twists, like an elaborate evil scheme for which the victim is just an unlucky pawn—or when the culprit turns out to be gloriously insane in the end, somehow disguising it for ninety-nine percent of the story.