Mind the Gap #6 – Review

By: Jim McCann (story), Rodin Esquejo (pencils), Arif Prianto & Beny Maulana (colors)

The Story: Wherein we see the death of a girl’s inner child—literally.

The Review: As much as this series has gleefully danced around its mysteries, constantly taunting you with its tagline of “Everyone is a suspect.  No one is innocent!” the story itself has allowed us to make some early conclusions.  After all, we’re not idiots.  Even though McCann, as writer, always reserves the possibility that he will pull out some unlikely twist at the last second, he’s limited (or should be) by the groundwork he’s lain down so far.

I think all of us immediately sensed from the beginning that Elle has been the unlucky subject of some rather exotic experimentation.  Obviously, the details are a bit obscure, but the involvement of so many scientific professionals—not to mention the silver briefcase, the ultimate plot device of any mystery—pretty much tells us that however Elle’s special talents came about, they were more likely introduced than natural.