Mind the Gap #7 – Review

By: Jim McCann (story), Rodin Esquejo (art), Arif Prianto (colors)

The Story: To be young again—only to die young.  It figures.

The Review: Between the uneven release schedule and generally slow pace of this title, it’s easy to take for granted how much material McCann has actually established so far.  Looking at the roster page for this issue, it surprised me to see how many familiar faces appeared, and how each of them has been given a secure and definite role in the series.  Now that they’re all starting to commingle, the energy of the story quickly kicks into a much higher level altogether.

Take the reappearance of Lonnie Miller, Dane’s deadbeat dad.  Call him a piece of white trash if you want, but if he is, then he’s the kind that gets stuck to the bottom of your shoe and no matter how much ridicule you invite trying to shake him off in public, he latches on.  More likely than not, his persistence is a side-effect of total stupidity—if you have no idea what you’re dealing with, why should you care about the consequences?—but he doesn’t seem intimated by setbacks either, which makes him the ideal unpredictable variable for this increasingly chaotic series.